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In 2007 I wrote: "47 (now 50) is way too old to get any good at go. But I'll learn and enjoy it anyway. I did not play 19x19 until february 2003. I hope to grow 9 stones in an instant and be a DDK no more.", not knowing that changes in my life changes made me spend so much time on other things that I hardly played go anymore until 3 weeks ago (Feb 2014). I started playing a little again, and found out that I had really missed playing. I intend to pickup where I left off.

continued "Senseis is an important source to me. Sometimes when there is something I do not understand I get angry. Unlike with books (which I also like), here at senseis, thanks to Tim Berners-Lee this anger can transform into sensible texts for me and other novices because of (just to name a few) Charles, Bill, unkx80, Andre Engels, Hu, Floris, Blake, John F., Arno and Dieter. You really help me understand. Thank you."

It seems that since 7 years a lot has changed at senseis library. I'll find out.

After discovering the sound of a real stone on a real goban, however, I tend to play IRL mostly.

I remembered that I kept a little journal on my go and SL experiences.

Today (Feb 21, 2014) I learned something like a proverb: "Do not push into the keima.", but I could't find it in the list of proverbs. Is it a proverb? Is it sound advice? - I'll try it and see what happens.

Old stuff:

favourites

• Philosopher 's Stones
• Get strong at kibitz and Get strong at kame no itte
• Point popularity by move number
• Cut beyond the Edge

stuff

• Priority
• Playing style
• Named points
• First moves
• Elementary moves
• Board geography
• Get strong at go series and parodies
• Reference games
• /Storyboard
• One Liberty
• Joseki Quick Reference
• Page of the month
• /TeachingKo
• /Sandbox

moves

direction

Koyaanisqatsi

After a period of hardly any go-activities recently (fall 2005) I tend to play almost weekly again. When black in an even game I start with this move:

Koyaanisqatsi  

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random

• The shoulder hit always hits from above. What about kata-tsuki? See also BQM75.
• Hane at the head, not at the feet. Top, not bottom.

手　te - move .

Daidaigeima

pull, turn (magari)

nozoki (peep), bulge

tiger mouth

Pushing in /through: De and Degiri, Atekomi, WariKomi

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Legacy

Pioneering isn't done by perfectionists. See Japlish

• Nobi, special Stretch
• Sagari, special Stretch
• Yose, special endgame moves

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Suspect English Terms

• Approach vs Kakari
• Check
• Crude
• Descent
• Diagonal jump
• Endgame, according to Bill Spight: Shuban, not Yose
• Honest vs Honte
• Knight's move - Hotdogs
• Liberty, special Dame and liberty count
• Lukewarm
• Settle
• Severe
• Submissive
• Thick
• Unreasonable
• Vulgar

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Units/Quantities/Metrics

• Distance
• Dame, liberty count
• Byo yomi
• Ideal extension distance
• Miai Value
• Popularity: Point popularity by move number, Widest Path
• Rank, Rating

characters

Oo = 大 ba = 場　 kyu= 急

kyu (rank) = 级 and dan = 段.

See http://igs.joyjoy.net/English/learning_go/go_terms.html and http://www7.wind.ne.jp/smallbear/igodict/igodict.htm.

Somehow the mostly found hexcodes don't work, so &x30C8; has to be written as & # 12488; to get ト

DougRidgway: would it be possible to allow through hex character references as well as decimal? So that 断 works as well as 断? Seems like hex is popular for character references.

SAS: There are browsers which understand numeric character references only if they are in decimal. So this is not a good idea unless the wiki software itself converts the hexadecimal to decimal, so that browsers never see it.

thing

property 1 : property 2 : property 3

ひき

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