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Really enjoyed the description of your first match!

Thanks a lot. Very helpful.

Nice video, clearly presented, straightforward. I have been cut like that before and it sucked. The rest of that game I couldn’t really make up the loss of getting separated in the corner

keep in mind: e4 may be sente. but after black's connection a white pincer around h3 is a lot less severe. don't just blindly strengthen your opponent. you want to be flexible

I haven't had a chance to go to a tournament yet, been really wanting to but sadly any of the ones I've seen are out of state. I have been trying to get information on how to set one up in the Las Vegas area so hopefully I can make that happen.

I go to my first tournament in late October! Super nervous 😅

I had my first live tournament on May this year. At the time I was 20 Kyu. Before that I only played once with a stronger player in person, so the tournament was a great experience. I had a chance to learn how the nigiri worked, how to use the clock and experience the sounds of playing live, like the sound of the stones on the board. It was a motivating experience and taught me that I like to play in person more than playing online. Thanks for the podcast, and regards from Buenos Aires, Argentina

Having started learning Go in an era when online play was not so prevalent, it's nice to hear stories from people who have been playing Go on the internet all their lives play their first OTB tournament :)

Good morning gamers

Enjoyed the podcast. A part of it made me wonder the following. You mentioned that you had notes that you went back to after three months, how do you store those? Would love hearing an episode on note taking.

I will get to SDK when I am older.

Main reason to not surrender as DDK and SDK is because your oponent can blunder a large group or play poorly strategically and lose already won game. I won a lot of games because of that. This rule apply either to chess and go.

That game (Shin Jinseo vs Lee Changho)... going from 3hr/pl and 3x ko to a New Game in flash mode... the mental whiplash must have been strong. Take care

I think the steps to get to Dan level are pretty much the same, just a bit more intense :)

love your veideos but i will say i only played long slow games as a ddk and advanced very quickly... i think the time control is very personal and different people will have different ways of improving. also i dont do tsumego either i am 3d on fox at the moment... ive mostly improved with understanding the game, and fundamental ways of thinking, of how should i approach different positions. if i were to boil things down the single advice i would give is play away from stregnth!! you want to play in a way that makes you as strong as possible as fast as possible while not helping your opponent becoming stronger and referably keeping them weak.

Thanks for the podcast, love to listen when going to work :)

Hey can you please spell the name of the youtuber you recommend at 13:10?

Tin’s lessons with Daniel found here: ua-cam.com/play/PL1QpIqqqCFtRTYusc4UUCT9UK6rBUBKJm.html&si=BIh7bRAYeB5qNnnr

I play AI quite a bit and my favorite is AI Sensei's Humanlike bot because it plays very normal moves in my opinion and you can easily jump right into a review. AI is great to drill openings and joseki variations because it doesn't fail to punish your mistakes when set to a high level. Once you mess something up, you can just resign, review and try again. Humans can't correctly punish you every time, tell you what you should have played and won't do it 20 times in a row whenever you feel like it. It's definitely important to play humans too, but AI is way more efficient for this kind of training.

I went to MVGC several times in the the summer. It's much fun to play with humans than with AI.

Regarding my listener mail that was featured, I was strictly referring to playing live 19x19 games on BadupPop and the chance of encountering bots there. I’ve never payed a single correspondence game there. Regarding this episode, I recommend to try the humanlike bot on AI-sensei at your strength or slightly higher.

I don't enjoy playing against ai. If Go is a conversation, it's not a very good one Excited to have a guest on as always!

as far as aesthetics, a complex go position is absolutely beautiful even to an untrained eye, but a complex chess position looks like a bunch of pieces on a board to an untrained eye

playing go is hard because so many more people i know play chess. i go to a chess club and theres easily 25 casual players every day of the week. I am happy if i meet someone who has ever even played a game of go, let alone is down to grind it

Are you planning to do a Huang Longshi episode?

Do Huang Longshi next!!!

Graded Go Problems volume 4/5 will get you close to dan level but probably not put you over the cusp of AGA or EGF 1-dan without a lot of games and a lot of strong player reviews to back it up.

Congrats! Was it baduk doctor?

I think in the professional world it's getting better. Many tournaments have strict controls to prevent cheating and people take this seriously now. In the amateur world, however, I think things are still quite lax especially when it comes to online games. I still meet cheaters on OGS from time to time. I try to report them if possible but it seems like there are so many reports that the admins are having difficulties handling them.

You left out the part about Yang Dingxin wanting to play Li Xuanhao buttnaked lol

I was just scrolling for a star point to listen to, perfect timing!

Funny that you mentioned rocket league, I am playing that as I listen to this lol. Great podcast!

This is one of your best videos

This was a fun listen. I want more

Great podcast, as always! And an idea: what if you interviewed /recorded total beginners trying out Go (for the first time!?) while explaining the game to them and hearing their impressions of the game...? One "student" would be great, but perhaps introducing the game to 2 beginners would perhaps be better and easier. For example 2 teachers and 2 beginner players who are playing against each other (after you have briefly stated the basic rules) and trying to understand how to form 2 eyes, etc. Or perhaps let them figure out a situation when a group of stones cannot be surrounded and see if they figure out how to make 2 eyes. Or different couples or people trying out Go. I think it would be a fascinating episode. Yes, one cannot see the board, but the sound/speech can convey a lot!

The binge watch starts now!

Love the podcast. Keep it up dude

I'm a chess enthusiast looking to learn about go and I'm taking a pause half way through to leave this comment because I didn't want to forget while it was fresh in my mind. I think Chess enjoys more global popularity because of empire and conquest. While Chess was born in India when the Persians dominated them they adopted Chess and spread it throughout their other territories. Then when the islamic world dominated the Persians they also adopted the game and spread it further. Then came the European domination of the known world and their adoption and proliferation of Chess through their even larger global footprint. While for most of this time China was very insulated and isolated from these effects. The Chinese kept to themselves by not looking outward and not letting much external influence inward. This is an extremely simplified explanation but I think if the Chinese where as involved in geo politics and outward expansion back then as they are now, Go may have become what Chess is. In fact I may have been typing this in Mandarin instead of English if that where the case. Anyways, back to the video.

i thought it was a nice touch to include Sean in all the sections of the episode and not just the main one. nice conversation too, i've been meaning to visit a go club but the closest one is just a bit too far of a trip for me at the moment

Great to hear from an average club player or any players with something to say about the game. I just like to hear people talk about Go.

Awesome! Enjoying episode so far. Hope to see more guests and interviews; your episode with Telegraph Go is one of my favorites

1:00:42 wow, he perfectly crystallized the idea for me here

11:08 W seems to be in trouble after Bs4

Atomic bomb game. First one. August 4-6. The participants would come to shape Go for generations. The referee, whose son died that evening in his arms, would teach the first Koreans in Japan and reach out internationally. Iwamoto would set up centres in Europe and the US. Hashimoto built the Kansai Kiin and, in the process, kicked the NK forward. I have a weak spot for that game. Take care

Welcome back. I will miss the Go news section, but it was not my main focus of tuning in so if it was that time consuming then I think its a good call to drop it. I really like learning about the differences between old and newer play. I started a little over a year ago, And was using both GoMagic and watching Nick Sibicky from episode 1. It was confusing and interesting to see the difference in openings before and after the AI revolution. For your Tewari analysis, I think the metaphor worked, but another simple way to describe it is using the sequence 1-2-3. If you reverse the order and play 3 first and they respond at 2. Is 1 still the move you would play next?

Keep going man. Keep going.

I stopped listening at 35 minute mark, because I think the discussion of chess vs. go stopped. I would have liked to see more in-depth comparison of chess vs go game itself. Not the superficial stuff like traveling ease and aesthetics, and not beginner stuff like how easy it is to learn rules/tactics. How different is the game? What exactly is different about it? I feel like in go, there are more "moves": more tactical maneuvers one encounters. There is a greater arsenal of tactics. And the strategy is much deeper. But in chess there is more dynamism and more drama. In chess, you can plan a move sequence that results in a fork. In go, it's just strategically appropriate moves, but it's sort of dull and lifeless. Anyway, would've liked to hear this sort of comparison.

I read with the board in front of me. I replicate the initial position and try to play variations freely first and then read what I should play. This way you maximize the impact of what you read imho. It surprises you more if you played different things from the ones recommended, so I think the info should stick better.

I go back and forth regarding draws. Years and years ago, I had a formal written debate with someone in an online forum that was dedicated to formal 1-on-1 debates, and the premise we were debating was which game is superior, Go or Chess. One of my arguments in favor of Go is that the game generally disallows draws with komi usually being 5.5, 6.5, or 7.5. I said this confidently, as if it were a given that it's a positive trait of the game and that anyone would naturally agree. But in his counter-arguments, my debate opponent said a game of skill should allow draws in the event both players display equal skill. That turned my thinking on the matter upside-down, and I still feel the whiplash today. It's true that many Go players simply tout the inability to draw in Go as a good thing because draws are bad. It's presumed to be axiomatic. It's circular reasoning, unless it can be explained with good reasons why draws are bad. Being anticlimactic or frustrating to experience a draw is not good enough, in my opinion. Those are subjective feelings we might project onto a game lost because of a blunder as well. Neither is it sufficient to lament the difficulties it would create in tournaments; that's a problem we create outside of the game itself. The only thing that would make it acceptable is if somehow it could be reasoned that the 0.5 komi does not exist for the purpose of breaking a tie for the sake of breaking a tie, but because it is the most balanced komi possible. In other words, it makes sense to me to say "If this game would otherwise end in a draw, white should win because white had the disadvantage of playing second." But that alone might not be enough compensation, so we add "If the game would otherwise end in a draw, or with Black winning by six or fewer points, white should win because he had the disadvantage of playing second." The research I've seen showed that game record statistics and AI analysis indicated that the most balanced komi is 7 points (even). I'm not sure how outdated this research is at this point, but Telegraph Go also seemed to agree with this in the stream you had with him, and he says "The first move is worth 14 points. 7 x 2 is 14. 7 is fair komi."

Hi Justin, love the podcast. I've just binged all of season one in a fairly short time, and there's a couple episodes I wanted to share my own stories. When I was about 15 kyu or so (pre-Alpha Go), I played a game against an unraked player on KGS (her rank was still just a ?), got absolutely demolished and afterward we got to talking and she said she was a 1 kyu and was nice enough to offer to be my teacher. I was an arrogant teenager and said something like, "No thanks, I got this far on my own and want to continue progressing on my own." I logged out, thought about the mistake I just made for a few seconds, then logged right back in and said something like, "Actually, if the offer still stands, I would like for you to teach me." Her KGS handle was Fanthan, she was my first Go teacher and a big part of how I progressed so quickly after that. I played a lot of games and did a lot of tsumego, but nothing else is nearly as useful as having a much stronger, articulate human teacher. If you're reading this, Fanthan, thank you! Hope to play a game with you again sometime.