tapir / Misconceptions Acquired At SL

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As I learned mostly by reading Sensei's Library in the beginning (and game practice), it is natural that several misconceptions were acquired here as well. The examples are not meant to blame any contribution here, but should remind of the importance to be careful, attributing statements and collective process. A single amateur may be pretty weak, but collective study is powerful.

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Heavy with SL

Assuming W1 is the best answer here. As opposed to a and b. Even c and d are more popular according to MasterGo.

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Totally bad according to SL

Strong opinions (as in Connect instead of hane) on perfectly playable and good moves - even worse with doubtful follow up diagrams.

Herman: In my experience it is very common for weaker players to have stronger opinions about things. Perhaps it is a result of the [ext] Dunning-Kruger effect or something similar. Personally, I have felt less and less confident in strongly judging moves as I got stronger :)


A strong bias against joseki knowledge in general. (Main culprit is probably A Zen Way To Joseki, a page that hugely impressed me, when I started reading and writing here short after beginning to play the game.)

I sincerely intended to reach shodan without studying joseki. I now reached it when I started to study joseki. (Mostly by looking up variations in MasterGo.) With the big insight that the problem is not knowing joseki at all, but knowing only a handful joseki and playing them confidently regardless of the whole board situation because they are supposed to be even.


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Believing B1 is always the only move (and not even considering a and b)

This is related to the belief that the 3-3 invasion necessarily ends in sente (and there is no way to prevent that).


A little too strong belief in playing from the distance. Which is helpful to beginners attaching everywhere, but will lead to much surprise when you start to replay professional games. Professional sometimes play the same attachment as a probe that beginners follow up on and believe to be an attack. The main mistake may not be the attachment but to play a local follow up. (Not sure, where I took this from.)


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