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Dieter: Sensei's Library is quoted as a reliable source by the Korean Times. In the first article of a new series of Baduk, editor Kim Ki-Tae quote SL on the history of Western Go.

Here is the [ext] link

2005 May 25

unkx80: Velobici, yes, 点 has two meanings, point and placement.

2005 March 20

Arno: I updated all links to the GTL on Sensei's. The GTL has moved to gtl.xmp.net. The update was done directly in the DB, so don't be surprised, if that change is shown to be done by another user.

2005 March 3

where to download the game?

unkx80: Please see software.

axd: Candidate for deletion: Testest??

BeginnerProblems1 is also a new page which's both not in the beginner exercises series and a clone...


2005 Jan 21

Dieter: I was accidentally blocked while WME-ing Myoshu. I'm completing it ight now.

2005 January 14

fivejohn: Quick question, and I hope it is OK for me to post it here. I'm doing a little research on SGF and XML-based file formats for describing go games. It looks like Jago uses an XML format, and even has a DTD for it. The SGF site had a start on an XGF format, but there doesn't seem to be much info. Does anybody know of any other XML-based formats? Is Jago's the main one? Any there others that are widely used, or have some open source tools for parsing them?

malweth: GoAlbum uses an XML format for problems on PocketPC. You could ask the author for more information.

AshleyF: I wouldn't really recommend the GoAlbum format. It's not really complete. I would guess that [ext] XGF is probably the most likely start to an XML format that has any real chance of being widely adopted. I personally doubt that some XML format should/would replace SGF but it could have it's place. For example it's very easily transformed client-side for presentation on the web - view source of: [ext] http://www.feniello.com/playground/content/senseis.xml

fivejohn: Thank you guys. I'm thinking about writing a SGF viewer, and I am wondering if I should handle the game tree in XML internally or not. Sounds like SGF is still the most widely used, so there may not be an advantage to having used XML.

Now I just have to get started!


2005 January 3

uxs: It's a phenomenon on KGS that a lot of people tend to go watch the same high dan games as everybody else. Perhaps 10 people will watch the opening plays, and people will keep joining right until the end of the game, where you can have 200 people or more watching the game.

I understand this behaviour (moo, moo... :-P), but I disagree with it: games are far more interesting when you can follow them all the way through. I think I can better understand the game, get a feel for what type of players they are, and somehow feel more connected to the game if I watch from the beginning.

Thus, when I feel like watching a game, I pick the one from the top of the list where the players have made the least plays yet. I get all the advantages I allready mentioned, plus I rarely get annoyed by all the low kyus that give silly comments on the very top dan games. (No offense to low kyus, I am one myself.) On top of this, I also rewind the game to the start and go over the moves that have allready been played too. I can't seem to enjoy a game if I haven't seen it from the very beginning.

Just felt like sharing these thoughts. :-)

Hikaru79: Hehe, I thought I was the only one who felt this way. I find it pointless to join a game that's on move 150. Of course, on IGS, if you sort the game list by amount of moves, you'll be able to find about 3 dan games on moves 0-5 at just about any point in time. On KGS it's often much harder to find a reasonably strong game in it's opening stages. But such is life. Perhaps a "Sort by Move Number" option would be useful?

DrStraw Guess it depends on what phase of your game needs the most practice. If you are weak in yose it makes sense to join dan games around move 150. If you are weak in chuban is makes sense to join around move 20-25. Most kyu players cannot understand enough about high dan games to benefit from the fuseki anyway.

axd: Someone deleted phpwiki:?diff=MaterialGoban&new=41 - I guess this should be undone (but I can't because another edit has been done after that)? There seems to be no other occurrence to shin-kaya on SL, but it is an interesting question.


2005 January 1

unkx80: Happy New Year everyone. Wishing everyone a peaceful year ahead. =)

Bill: Best wishes to all for the coming year! :-)

2004 December 25

axd: I'd like to know about other opinions concerning ErrataInBooks. IMHO errata that deal with specific books should be moved to a section in an Errata subpage of the concerned book instead of being concentrated on this page; I'm willing to do some edits, but I don't know if there is enough agreement on this. For argumentation, see my input on ErrataInBooks/Discussion. (Maybe reply there rather than here.)

axd: As I get no reaction *at all*, I assume that everybody agrees with the idea so I will start WME those pages.

Arno: I suggest you go ahead. But most of the pages should be renamed. Please don't copy&paste, when renaming the page is possible. Just list the pages to be renamed in PageNameChangerequests.

axd: Thanks.


2004 December 21

nunb: I wonder what is the right place to ask this. My brother is in Germany (at Uni) and I wanted to get him started with Go. He speaks German of course, though I do not. I found these two sites: govb.de and degob.de but no information on meetings (I translated through Google). If there are any German deshi hanging around, please could you help? Also if you can move this to an appropriate page, and put a small link here, I will check back tomorrow and remove it. (I thought of putting this in CoffeeMachine but GeneralDiscussionPages seemed to indicate this was a better page for it. Cheers all.

PS: Oh I forgot, he is in Berlin at Humboldt (sp?) and I thought one of the pages mentioned Ryo Kato teaches there, but maybe the translation was off.

Fuchsnoir Hi, look at [ext] game meetings in Berlin and here are some [ext] german go meetings. The word to look for is "Spielabend". P.S. The [ext] first meeting in the first link is at Humboldt Uni.


2004 December 12

ProtoDeuteric: I have a simple question. Why was the layout Sensei's Library changed?

Quicksilvre: My reply is kind of late, but see GuineaPigsFeedback for discussion.


2004 December 12

Quicksilvre: I believe that the Front Page had its 500,000th hit today. Party!


2004 December 10

Bob McGuigan: Bravo to Ferdi, Unkx80 and DanSchmidt for their retrograde analysis problems. Such problems have been popular in chess for a long time but these are the first attempts I've seen in go.


2004 December 6

FireFox?: I'm new to Go and do not know that much so I was wondering if any of you know of some good sites that can help me. I was also wondering, my friend plays Go and has been playing for about 2 weeks (he's the reason why I play) and on KGS he is a solid 20 kyu and I was wondering if that is normal for someone who has been playing for a short time. I just want to know so I can have some expectations of my own for the future.

Thanks

Bill: It may be a little quick, but certainly not uncommon. If you take to the game, you will progress rapidly for a year or two. I would not worry at all about ratings during that time. :-)

FireFox?: Thanks for the advice Bill.

Hmm... You can learn the basics here, [ext] http://playgo.to/interactive/index.html and later visit goproblems.com and [ext] http://gobase.org... But most important is playing and if you can, get your games reviewed, try the KGS Teaching Ladder... Reuven

(Ohh and btw... There's some site... Called [ext] Senseis by the masses where you can find lots of usefull info and help...:)


2004 December 3

Hi Kendrew Li?,

Welcome to Sensei's Library.

To avoid having many pages with duplicate content and better naming of page titles, I have done the following:

  1. Turned the guessing the stones page into an alias of the nigiri page, since they both are the same thing;
  2. Renamed Chinese to English Go Terms to Traditional Chinese Go Terms.

I hope you do not mind these changes. =)

Have a nice day,
-- unkx80


2004 December 1

unkx80: Thanks to all who helped restoring pages. Somehow, this vandal has deleted too much material and was automatically blocked by SL's own defence system.

Bill: Thanks to you and everyone for your care and diligence. :-)


2004 November 22

Dieter: unkx80, I'm deliberately not touching your beginner exercises. However, if nobody enters a solution, I will be more than willing to try them a few days from here.

unkx80: I might fill up solutions for the older ones myself in a few days time, but not the problems from 200 onwards. I know I have posted too many problems within one day, so let the others have some time to digest them.

Brent: I, for one, enjoy trying to work through new problems and post my solution -- it makes me more honest/thorough and seems a good way to get feedback if I'm not seeing something correctly. But it takes me a while to work through each problem. So, that's not to say no one may post solutions but me, of course =), but only that it does take some of the fun out of it when dan players come through and post solutions after only a few days, before us DDK's have had a chance to think about them.


2004 November 21

Is the page Flabox? wiki vandalism? The original creator's summary "I Rule You" makes it look like vandalism.


2004 November

Sorry if I edited someone out. I thought the warning considered myself.


2004 November 15

Oryx Does anyone know what aLegendWai meant on AmIReallyAMoronIfIDontConnectAgainstThePeep by "resp. next to the opponent's stones in 1ken distance"? Can they either translate it on the page, or explain it to me?

[Diagram]

Black & White are in disatnce of 1 ken?



Tderz: I guess it was me (although I didn't not have a look now at that page) introducing this term 1 ken = distance of 1 intersection in between; hence 1 ken? jump is a tobi. ken? as in nikken taka basami? or ikken tobi etc.


2004 November 13

Bill: From time to time SL pages do not fit in my browser (except sometimes with the smallest fonts that require a magnifying glass for some text). I am talking no horizontal slider, either. The text just disappears to the right.

Sometimes this happens because text to the right of a diagram, i. e., not separated from it by %s, is indented. Other times I do not know why.

I have a request to everyone. Please, please, do not indent text to the right of diagrams. Thanks. :-)

axd: Bill, I meanwhile corrected a graphic's position in UnusualGobans, did it help?

Bill: Thanks, axd, but no, it didn't help. :-(

Oryx I think you meant, non-indented text to the right of a diagram. I'm curious, what browser and resolution are you using? Please see Oryx/DiagramAndText for a couple of examples of diagrams with text, and let us know if the text on any of the diagrams disapear?

Bill: Thanks for the test page. :-)

I do mean indented text.

  Like this.

I am using MyIE2, for security reasons, but I had the same problem with IE. Netscape, as well, I think. Anyway, only with the Smallest text size do I get the whole text on that page.

2004 November 12

DJ: I have noticed that we have a page for the European Go Tournament Calendar but we have nothing for workshops, camps, seminars - IOW, didactics. I think that's an important activity in the Go world, so I am going to create the appropriate page: also, I have to advertise [ext] our traditional [ext] New Year's Eve Go & Ski Workshop... ;-)

(moved Robert's comment on creating the 10000th page from WikiNews to here --Arno)

Robert Pauli: Well, many pages may also mean lots of trash . . . Nevertheless, what's my prize for having made it? :--)

Arno: well, get yourself a free cup of coffee at the CoffeeMachine. And of course you are now listed in our hall of fame.

axd: tried to visit the Feb 2001 version of SL via the link listed on the above mentioned hall of fame page, but the links there all seem to go back to the current version - not that it is important, but is there a way to navigate in the old version?

Arno: either just view the history of a page (link at bottom of each page) or download an old SL snapshot.

2004 November 10

(Sebastian:) I just "WME"d a discussion page (Introduction to the 'press' tactic / Discussion). I understand that it is dangerous to interfere with other people's discussion contributions. I did not change other people's wording, but I split up some contributions and might have moved something out of the intended context. However, I wanted to spare that page the fate of some other discussion pages which ramble along for pages and are just dead weight. Sorry that I hogged the page for a long time and I hope I didn't hold up anyone else who wanted to contribute.

2004 November 8

Calvin: I'm not sure where this would go on SL, but here's a cool link with photos of Korean pros. Maybe someone could find a home for it? [ext] http://rt.fm/~bk/baduk/korean_professionals/korean_pros.html

2004 November 5

Rich: just a general message FAO any deshi = PlayKikashiBeforeLiving has been vandalised. Oh, and Bill -I agree, it's not all bad. :)

2004 November 3

Bill: I know that I have criticized aLegendWai's presentation of his ideas. However, he has brought our attention to pages with inadequately explained, poorly presented, or flawed material. For that we owe him our gratitude. :-)

2004 November 2

Hi Bill, thanks for the additions in the RTG Problem 24 / Solution. =) --unkx80

Bill: Thanks to you, unkx80, for posting these problems. :-)


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