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Argue The Opponent Into His Move
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"If you don't answer, I kill your group."
"With this move, I think you can't even live anymore."
"I don't know, but I think that right now I have more territory."

At least one player at our club has the bad habit of arguing about an ongoing fight. I find it very disturbing, unless the game was set in an spirit of boasting right from the start.

DieterVerhofstadt

I think that this is supposed to be a sign that the player is always anxious about the course of his games and the argueing is supposed to be a symptom of this, attempting to gain reassurance throughout the proceedings. In my years though I have seen much worse things! ~ian~

Jasonred : Maybe it's shidougo?

Confused: Even in a teaching game, it's better to discuss a move after it has been played, not before it.

SnotNose Recently I've found my play has improved by not listening too seriously to my opponent's thoughts about the game. Or, to be more precise, I take them in as additional evidence about his ambitions for and understanding of the board position but I do not believe them to be true just because he said them. For example, if my opponent says that his move "seems like sente." I think, "okay, he thinks it is sente but that doesn't make it so." And I evaluate the board for myself. Just as often as not, I think my opponent's comments are wrong and I've avoided a lot of bad moves by not taking them so seriously.

In the end, I think commenting on the game can only hurt the commenter unless the listener is dumb enough to follow what the commenter says without thought. After all, are you likely to win a game if your opponent tells you how to play?

None of this applies to teaching games, though. If decided at the start that the game is for teaching or is an "open" game, where we are to discuss it as we go, then I am less suspicious of my opponent's agenda.



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