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The more important question is, have you read Hikaru no Go, and if so, who is your favorite character?
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I have played, but I'm in your boat. My roommate is pretty good, we just never have time to sit down to a game. I'm pretty good at atari go, but the grandscale game is behind me.
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Look, if you're going to stick around, could you try to post with a bit of substance and spell-checking? You may have noticed, Hatrack has a slightly higher standard than the rest of the tubes.
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I've played about a few dozen games of Go in my life over the years. I'm not any good though, and when I try to play against Gnu Go or in yahoo's Go rooms I get stomped.
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I'm like everyone else here apparently, I know how to play, but if I play against anyone who has played more than like, ten games, and can think, I get face-crushed.
There's a true saying, though I don't remember it verbatim, 'Go, the game you learn in a minute, but takes a lifetime to master.'
A different saying I prefer in regards to the game is, 'Just one game, the man said. That was yesterday.'
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Yeah I, like most American anime fans, have read Hikaru no Go and have personally played about...oh, ten games. So I'd get destroyed by anyone who claims to play it regularly. I do have my own high quality board and stones though, that's more than most people my age Posts: 349 | Registered: Jul 2006
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quote:Originally posted by Saephon: Yeah I, like most American anime fans, have read Hikaru no Go and have personally played about...oh, ten games. So I'd get destroyed by anyone who claims to play it regularly. I do have my own high quality board and stones though, that's more than most people my age
... There's an anime about go?
Who knew?
Edit to add: I actually learned of go from A Beautiful Mind. I didn't know there was an anime.
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I'll NEVER be able to get any of my friends to play it with me though, I can tell that just by reading the rules and gameplay.
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My husband can play. His dream is to someday have one of the table go boards. Right now, he has a beautiful 3' thick board and "decent" stones. He also has a roll up board, a magnetic board and a medium sized wooden folding board (which people won't play with him on because it is smaller then standard and so not as nice). He usually gives me like a 12 stone handicap and still wins. And he can debate the merits of Chinese versus Japanese scoring. Posts: 2223 | Registered: Mar 2008
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My sister got a nice Go set, and took one look at the instructions and started laughing. The next time we had a family get together, she gave it to me.
The problem is, I have no one to play it with. Neither Havah nor Tova will play chess with me. They'll barely play Othello with me. As a result, I have no idea if I'd be any good at it at all.
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quote:Originally posted by Xavier: I've played about a few dozen games of Go in my life over the years. I'm not any good though, and when I try to play against Gnu Go or in yahoo's Go rooms I get stomped.
I am demonstrably less good at Go then Xavier is. I know this because it was demonstrated at RaspberryCon.
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I've won a few tournaments and am dan level. The key to improvement is pretty simple: work hard and study problems.
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