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Taking a break? Go ahead and add what's on your mind right now. Alternatively, take a look at some go humour.

Motto for today:

Rather than remembering joseki, Go is thinking about what the best move is in a position.--Yasunaga Hajime, Japanese pro-strength amateur, ghost writer for Kitani and Go Seigen of "Shin Fuseki Ho", and purported originator of the CHinese style opening.

(You may change the motto of the day, but please save the old motto in Old Mottos.)

Some news are found at Go News.


May 17

Ummmm if anyone could help me their help would be appreciated greatly. Well the problem is that I am unable to connect to KGS whenever I get on the page where the Java Applet is supposed to start I get a message that says "Due to your current security settings Active X controls are prohibited This page cannot be displayed correctly." First off all KGS uses Java. Second Active X controls are activated (not that it matters does it). Well thats all if anyone can help it will be appreciated. naruto3


May 13

Wikipedia.org has [ext] won a Webby award for Best Community. Charles A good day for Wikipedians. I now know that there is a better atmosphere there, when you get past some of the more obvious problem user/nonsense difficulties, than is immediately apparent.

April 14

Shaydwyrm: Out of curiosity, can anyone tell me what the xmp in senseis.xmp.net stands for? The only answer I've found is at www.xmp.net, which proudly declares that it "is net of xmp"...

Ellbur: Searching the internet for 'xmp', I found it stands for many different things, e.g. "Extensible Modular Player"

Arno: The history is that a friend and I participated in a short-video contest over 10 years ago. We needed a name for ourselves, so we did some brainstorming. Being the twisted minds we are, we came up with "eXtreme Multimedia Productions" (multimedia being a buzz word without meaning). We also thought of many other names fitting the acronym XMP, but this is the one I remember.

rubilia: Apparently, I can hardly edit pages anymore without having to worry about unintendedly deleting the lower part of it. ... (moved to SL Page Editing Cutoff Problem)

April 8 (i think)

naruto3 I have found a glich in the hikaru no go manga go read about it in references under hikaru no go manga at the bottom of the page thanks ;-)

2004 March 31

mAsterdam: It is almost april, and there is no page of the month for march yet. The world won't stop turning because of that. I would not like to just take the top of most popular for every month. I also would not like a formalized procedure to decide which page it is going to be. If, within one week from now, nobody proposes another page or seconds my proposal, I'll state there that there was no page of the month award for march 2004.

2004 March 30

andycjp:I keep getting thrashed by the go computers on KGS so I was just wondering what the best ever game for a computer has been so far?Has one ever beaten a dan,for example?

Niklaus: Nope, the computers at KGS are about as strong as they get. At least so far. But it's doubtful that they will reach dan level any time soon. See Computer Go.

2004 March 24

Phelan: I was wondering if there are any go related icons, of the [ext] kind people use on their sites and/or blogs. Since SL is my main source of Go related links and sites, I tried to search here, but didn't quite find what I wanted...Any ideas?

(I don't know if this is the right place in SL to put this, but feel free to move it if it isn't appropriate.)

axd: I think it would be interesting to have a GoMedia page where one could find all sorts of Go-related media files, such as sounds, textures, wallpapers, art pictures...

Phelan: I was thinking of using Scartol's images of the Japanese charachter for Go, and reducing them to create icons of the kind I wrote about above (asking permission from him first, obviously :p). And I also think GoMedia would make an interesting page...

2004 March 14

Blake: Could 36Strategies be deleted? It appears to have, ah, experienced some difficulties.

2004 March 01

bojo: I'm going to be heading to [ext] Japan in a year and a half on exchange, and am trying to gather more information about the listed cities. What I am really curious about of course, is the Go scene each city has to offer. Does anyone have any recommendations, feedback, or comments that can help me out?

Bob McGuigan: The Central Japan Branch of the Nihon Ki-in is located in Nagoya. Sapporo and Sendai are large cities and so would have a fair amount of go activity. Most universities have a student go club.

2004 Feb 27

kokiri - I've moved from one computer to a new one; how do i salvage my identity? I'm sure this is dealt with somewhere, but I can't find it.

Matt Noonan: I mean no offense by this, but I'm really delighted by the phrase "do not use acronyms on SL" appearing in RecentChanges today. Pure gold!

  • Fwiffo: No irony there... SL is not an acronym, it's an abbreviation. Same for AFAIK, LOL, IMO, etc. Scuba, laser and radar, on the other hand, are all acronyms.
  • Korinu: If you pronounced it "Suhl" or "Sluh" then it would be an acronym. And LOL is definitely an acronym. Does anyone read LOL in their heads as "El-Oh-El"? Nope. Have you ever head someone say LOL out loud? It's pretty funny. You can point at them and laugh.

2004 Feb 20

Is it just me or has KGS been down for a few days? I can't connect at all... the MOTD doesn't even pop up any more :S bobulatorm

Hikaru79: I think it may just be you... I just tried a second ago and I got on fine... KGS is teeming with people =/ Have you tried re-installing Java?

hmm i've not but i have tried it on 2 computers that normally work fine. i can't even access kgs.kiseido.com on the net. ill try reinstalling java later. i did randomly get on for a few seconds the other day, thought woo tis working ill play later, came back and same problem. hmm.

this gets weirder. i can ping kgs.kiseido.com but not access it via the net or cgoban. if i was blocked for any reason i'd have had a warning or something wouldn't i? can't think why i would be though :\ bobulatorm

2004 Feb 18

What happened to the games of Rengo on here? Anyone for a new one? ~ian~

2004 Feb 13

According to a full-text search there is no mention yet on Senseis of Andrei Kulkov, our (in Europe) new holder of the [ext] Crown. I can't contribute, I know nothing about him. Maybe someone else can, or even knows him and can ask for a fact or two? It seems he is an amateur who managed to beat two professionals to win one of the most prestiguous titles in Europe. Without doubt there is some interest in him!

Follow-up after a search with Google-archives: 18.August 2001 Charles Matthews writes to rec.games.go "He was European Youth Champion (2d) in 1999, did well in the Ing Memorial this year (4d), is now 18 years old.". That was the year he became European Champion.

2004 Feb 08

Just a silly idea, which I got from a bug I just made in Miniban: Only black could kill white stones, and not vice versa. Wouldn't this be an interesting handicap?

Stefan: Wouldn't Black always win? No matter what territory White constructs, Black could always turn it into dame by playing inside.

30 January 2004

Kami No Itte found! ([ext] here)

BenAxelrod: That's awesome!

27 January 2004

Dan Argent: I was just thinking, as I sit here sipping my caramel java here at the coffee machine. How is this site funded. I have found that arno is the founder and maintainer here, but this can't be a small drain on his pocket book if he is paying for it by himself. Like most open sorce pages I haven't seen the polite request of a paypal donation just in case you want to get the warm fuzzy feeling. I also haven't seen any advertisments, which is how the more evel of the free services survive.

so I think to myself, prhaps arno here is filthy rich... perhaps he's realy Bill Gates... But wiki stikes me as something completely un-Gatesish so that could never happen. Oh well, somethings will never be known. (more of my useless rambelings)

Morten - Well, Mr 'Silver' you were expected to pay for that caramel Java coffee... :-)

Seriously, the only real cost on SL is the domain registration. The hosting of the site is kindly donated by a third party.

Dan Argent: It just seems like there are a lot of pages on SL. Why is some random third party donating so much server space to the site?

Morten It is not the server space but the bandwidth/processor time used (most pages are created on the fly) which might be an issue. Anyhow, isn't it nice to know that we live in a world where this is still possible?

11 January 2004

Just a dumb question, if you allow me: Does the supercute mascot at the top left of sensei's pages have a name? How about its own page? Just curious.

mAsterdam: Just [ext] Stones. Maybe someone can name the senseis stone?

Arno: well, we could give them names like (Disney did to) the seven dwarfs: dopey,doc,sleepy,happy,sneezy, ... Of course, I can see that Andreas would argue that stones should be indistinguishable from each other, so giving names to them is against their "we are all equal stones" mantra :o)

Dan Argent: On the SL main page, there is a link at the bottom to the cartoonist's website. I went there and there are many drawings of go stones. I asume our particulr favorite has a name but the site is in a language that I do not speak and I was unable to tell. I beleive it is German or another similar language of the Indo-European branch. If anyone who thinks they might speak it goes to the web site mabee they can figure it out. ("actualy posted of Jan 27th")

Zarlan: Yes it is in German. A language that I know and like. But if you follow the link above, you will see a bunch of stones holding different flags for the choice of different languages, such as [ext] English (posted the 28th. Should I have posted this in the right date and refered to the question instead?)

Dan Argent: I read through the english cartoons (thanks for the link Zarlan, I just thought they were international go stones). Unfortunatly I couldn't findany referances to the name of our particular stone. I did notice that tehre were some sectons of the site that were only in german. Did you find any referances to a name Zarlan? If we can't find what the name is, mabee a german speaker could drop the cartonist an e-mail and ask.

9 January 2004

EncyGoPédie a french wiki about Go based on the GoWiki code has opened some days ago. See: [ext] http://www.jeudego.info/

4 January 2004

David Foale: Anyone fancy a game of go-jujitsu? [ext] http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=1348


previous versions (before WMEs):

  • 2004-04-15 (deleted everything prior to January 2004)
  • 2003-12-14 (deleted everything prior to August 2003)
  • 2003-08-03 (deleted everything prior to 2003)
  • 2002-12-30 (deleted everything prior to 2002)


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