Sleeve Of God/ Discussion

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Joshual000: Ahh... this tesuji reminds me of two others with which you can acheive perfect play.

'The Ambiguous Nature of God' This simple tesuji involves the sleeve tesuji - but with a twist.

First you begin by playing with a very spastic, bouncy style. Attempt to shake the table as much as possible without causing stones to leave the board. Never, and I mean *Never* place a stone directly upon an intersection. Always leave room for interpretation on the location of a placed stone. Now, if a stone appears to be slightly out of place, simply use the sleeve tesuji to adjust it accordingly.

'Resurrection Power of God'. This tesuji works best on small tables (where the lids don't fit for holding prisoners).

Simply play with the stone(s) about to be played very near to your opponent's pile of captures. Ocassionaly pretend to fumble the stone, and with a slight of hand pull multiple stones from the capture pile while retrieving your fumbled stone. -NOTE- ineffective when using area scoring.

:) Joshual000

Drstraw: Why would anyone advocate cheating, even if in jest?

Willerz: I don't think this page advocates anything, really...

Joshual000: Believe it or not, the 'techniques' described above have been used against me in casual play - producing a very awkward social situation. I think possibly I found some release venting in this sarcastic fashion. I certainly don't want to provide ammunition for potential cheats out there, however I guess IMO these 'techniques' seemed incredibly transparent to me at the time, and thus quite pathetic. I countered them by 1. explicitly moving 'grey-ly' placed stones to a nearby point and asking if it was where the player intended to play. 2. re-locating my pile of captures outside of my opponent's reach.

A third tactic was actually employed by this same opponent, and that was to 'dive bomb' the position with a cleverly dropped stone and quickly re-arrange the stones into better shape (with more eye potential). The counter for this was to remember how the local situation played out to its undisturbed state.

I guess you could alternatively consider this page a warning for potential cheats out there, that what they do doesn't go un-noticed.

Bob McGuigan: In my opinion the right thing to do with opponents (online or off) who cheat is to call them on their misbehavior and then don't play go with them again.

Hu: If this happened to me in a club (or any trickery online) I would resign, stand up, and loudly denounce the person. Then I would keep my eye on the person's behavior and if I saw them trying it again on someone else, I would denounce it again. There is no place for stupid trickery like this. Good call, Bob.

wtf? Reply's to this joke are actually really sad. Looks like some people have no idea what a joke is.

anon: I think this "joke" is so far from funny that folks have replied as if it was serious. It is such an inane idea on a number of levels, not least of which is that if both players can't remember the shape shown above and that it was dead they should try a different game. It has been the case in numerous games of mine that one or another player has accidentally moved a stone and neither player saw the movement. Later, one or another notices that the shape looks funny (because they can remember what the board should look like) and it is corrected. I can't imagine very many go players not noticing a stone out of place, least of which one that decides the status of a group.

yoyoma: There was one guy at the chess club who would start making illegal moves when he was behind, such as moving a knight up _3_ and over 1 instead of up 2 and over 1. Some of the time I was so focused on my plans that I didn't notice it was actually illegal. Instead I would just be bewildered that I hadn't considered that move, until I noticed him smiling. It was always done in a friendly way, I found it to be quite hilarious. We shared a laugh and he would resign.


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