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I am 14 years old and live in NJ, USA. I'm fairly new to the game of Go (just started playing on the 15th, but im extremly obsessed with the game). I don't know my rank because I only been playing 9x9 games at KGS and they don't rank those games there (alias DarkCloud? on KGS). I am really into Go and have ordered many books, read reviews, watched professional games, etc. If anyone is willing to give some tips, they will be appreciated. Hi, Acid, welcome to Sensei's. :-) I'm not one of the official welcomers like TJ or Sebastian and I'm kind of new here myself, but I thought I'd say hello and offer a suggestion. For starting to navigate here, have you tried Starting Points or Guided Tours? Also, one of the tricky things -- for me at least -- was that the lowest level of instruction pages is Introductory, not Beginner. Good luck! -- geno / 2004-01-21 Acid: Thanks geno. I have a question to ask of anybody and anybody can answer. As I have already said, I am a beginner but I already know the rules of the games and some strategy. After viewing many websites in the past days and reading many beginner tutorials, I found I don't learn much from each different one. After reading around this site I also learned that if I decide to buy the complete Learn to Play Go books series by Janice Kim, I might not need to buy the first book of the series and it could be a waste to do so. My question is, should I buy the first book of the volume? Is it really needed for me?
Hikaru79: I don't think so ^^; I looked the book up on
So I wouldn't--even if there's still some useful knowledge in there, you can find it out yourself soon enough without having to pay money for it :) Good luck with Go ^__^ Acid: Thanks Hikaru79 you just saved me some money. If anyone else has any opions or suggestions for me, just e-mail me at AcidBurn4948?@aol.com. Acid: I only been playing for a week, so what size games should I play? 9x9 or 19x19? I have been told by someone that I should play 9x9 games to learn how to 'fight'. What do you guys think? Also, is there a better place on this site to ask questions?
Nacho: Maybe both. I'd recommend getting some stronger player playing a handicap game against you. If you want, and happen to see me (user SirRobin?), just ask for a game.
Niklaus: There's a page called Who should play on which board size, which you might want to read. I personally think playing lots of 9x9 in the beginning is a very good way to learn. There's a guy on KGS (user akira3000) who has played more than 200 9x9 games in the first week of play, in addition to solving lots of problems on Acid: Thats good to hear, Ive been playing alot of 9x9 (no clue how many, but alot). I don't realy like www.goproblems.com. I use it all the time, but half the problems your opponent should have made a different move and you would have lost. I try to solove the problems by thinking whats the best move for black and I end up asking for the solution which wouldn't actualy work because your opponent should have done something else. Niklaus: I don't really understand what you mean. To get most out of a go problem, you should try to visualize all the variations mentally, without playing them out on the board. Now in a lot of problems, there are several ways for the "opponent" to resist, none of which works if you've got the correct solution. Which one the applet at goproblems.com actually picks out is a sort of random decision, I guess. But it shouldn't really matter, because you refuted all the possible variations in your head before you actually play them out, right ? :-)
Acid: Thats what im say, I figure out the problem in my head and find thats their realy isnt a solution. When I check for the answer, I see that I figured that sequence out in my head already but if my opponent made a different move, I would have lost. Here's an example: Joonas Tyystjarvi: In that problem, it doesn't matter that black can be trapped - white still can't make two eyes. See the Killable eye shapes page. In fact, black doesn't even need to respond to T1, S3 or R2 - S1 or T2 is white's only ko threat there. Acid: I see that now. Thanks. This is a copy of the living page "Acid" at Sensei's Library. ![]() |