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I don't think it's useful for most people.
I do not find the approach here to be useful for most people for learning or teaching or playing go, or even for understanding life and death. Also its considerable length makes it hard to work out what is being said. But I do think it has value to the writer, and it surely also has some value as an unusual, original way of looking at life and death.
Malcolm Schonfield / weak 1 Dan (French ratings) / been playing Go since 1994.
Kjeld Petersen Thank you very much. I appreciate your reply.
I like the fact you ask for feedback :)
As a 1-2d, also having played for 30 years now, my visual intuition for eye shape has been formed, so the concept doesn't provide benefit to me. Checking the page again, it seems to aim for rules beasts too, which are not of a players' concern.
But I like original conceptualization like this, so as a librarian I'm enthusiastic.
Kjeld Petersen Thank you very much. I appreciate your reply.
Kjeld Petersen What baffles me is, that since Go is a graph theoretically game, that so few are interested in the graph theoretical components of the game. Do you have any thoughts on that?
There's a difference between what's applicable for a player and what's interesting for a theorist. For example calculating the exact miai value is an interesting mathematical exercise but by no means feasible in a game, unless you are progressively learning the values by heart.
In your case, as a mathematician I'm interested, but I need to invest into it (which I may do later). As a player, I'm inclined to disregard it because I don't struggle with the concept of eyes in actual play.
Kjeld Petersen Lately I have been wondering how I could describe in graph theoretically terms how mutual exclusion (2 non-adjacent inside liberties) emerge from the rule about suicide is not allowed? When one inside liberty can't be filled because of another inside liberty still exists a mutual exclusion is formed. That is the basic concept of a living group.
People that have been playing for several years and dan player are not the primary target group for this article. So it would be nice to hear from double digit kyu players if they have had any benefit from my article.