Playing Styles And Player Types

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(See also Professional Players' Go Styles.)

Playing Styles

Velobici: Sounds just like an overtrained athlete...hard to get out of bed in the morning, elevated morning pulse rate, loss of appetite, no zest in training, poor results in competition. Give Go a rest for one week. Do not play at all. Do not read any books. No Sensei's (that might be the hardest part ;) Then come back to Go. The difference will be amazing if this is the problem.

Player Types

TJ: Worst proponents of this style will actually demand that you play faster, even in a timed game where they decided what time controls to use. Best answered with a smile (or smiley) and a good long think.
Neil: Make sure that when you peg someone as this type that the player is actually any good. If the person is, oh, 12k KGS, don't go accusing the person of some grand psychological strategy, as has been done to me! Some of us just haven't learned the discipline to play carefully yet!

Dieter: Ouch. Sounds like me and quite a few other Sensei's.

unkx80: Arrrgh, you got me there.

BlueWyvern: Naw, I don't think so. No one here seems all that arrogant. :-)

Ellegon: I'd like to add a playing style that I am "guilty" of. I would call it the Text-book style. You recognize that type when you see bits of good shape interspersed by huge and obvious cutting points, and heavy useless chains. It's when a beginner has started reading Go books and reading lessons on the internet, but hasn't figured out how to use them yet. It's mostly a transitional state, during which the player in question is left wondering what they did wrong when their whole moyo on the left side is gone... not that it ever happened to me though:)


Tamsin takes a slightly more serious look at playing styles.

...which is why I moved her remarks and the subsequent discussion to another page on style.



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