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Humour Almost Proverbs
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Some proverbs that never made it to the Go playing community:

  1. Never try to smoke a bamboo joint
  2. Hitting your opponent on the head with a wooden stick is vulgar style
  3. When you have a train to catch, resign
  4. Strange things happen at the 17-14 point
  5. The first line is the edge of the board
  6. Play fast, lose fast. Play slow, lose slow
  7. The empty sake bottle shape is negative
  8. Learn the wallet stealing tesuji
  9. Strong players walk straight
  10. The strongest player knows the way to the restaurant.
  11. The walls may have ears, but they don't have eyes.
  12. If throwing in doesn't work, try throwing up.
  13. Play kikashi before you forget.
  14. Tenuki before you forget.
  15. Don't die with gote.
  16. Faint in the east before attacking the west
  17. Lose 100 stones as quickly as you can.
  18. Since everything works in Theory, let's move there.
  19. A stone on the board is worth two in the bowl.
  20. An oddity, an oddity, always an oddity.
  21. Give me liberties, or give me death.
  22. It is better to dip your fingers in the coffee than to try to drink the stones.
  23. Know the time-stealing tesuji.

Government health warning: Applying these proverbs to your games may seriously damage your strength.



From [ext] http://users.skynet.be/rexburton/ritchie.htm :

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