Living Go @osmoticferenc

#囲碁 #바둑 #围棋 #gameofgo #gogame #baduk ⚫️⚪️ Go: The Once & Future Game; a unique platform for studying #Strategy, cultivating #Character, and living the Way. Between Relative & Absolute Joined October 2013

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Living Go @osmoticferenc

2 years ago

The final positions of your stones on the goban are just like the gyotaku ink print of a fish: they preserve a moment of victory - and defeat, otherwise forgotten - board cleared after the game, fish eaten after the catch.

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Living Go @osmoticferenc

2 years ago

When I return to Go after a break, I am struck by how much the Goban holds up a mirror to our soul: bold or fearful, measured or reckless, scheming or straightforward, generous or greedy. It’s not easy to interpret the placement of stones in terms of character. You need a guide.

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Living Go @osmoticferenc

2 years ago

Ever had the feeling that you are leading all through the game only to discover that you have entombed yourself is an unsalvageable corner? You may not have known it, but your opponent did. You willingly and actively crafted your own defeat.

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Living Go @osmoticferenc

3 years ago

It is possible to misdirect an impressionable opponent for a long time with large, seemingly coherent “big” moves that have no intrinsic forcing power beyond the distant potential of a brilliant global master plan…until local realities contradict any possibility of such a plan.

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Living Go @osmoticferenc

3 years ago

There are a few responses to any local situation (nobi/tobi/hane, kosumi, keima, etc), but when the move is not forced by kikashi, the standard local choices allow for strategic freedom. Weak players lose by letting “obvious” local responses lead them into strategic impasses.

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Living Go @osmoticferenc

3 years ago

It’s is by stalking the opponent, ie actively scanning for his mistakes, like neglected connections or unattended weak groups, that we develop the ability to set successful ambushes, aka traps.

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Living Go @osmoticferenc

3 years ago

A Go skeptic explained that playing well is “just” pattern recognition. That may be so. After all, modern #AI is about deep patterns humans can’t even see. But for us humans, the thrill is in recognizing and arranging the patterns successfully. That never gets old.

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Living Go @osmoticferenc

3 years ago

Go is so flexible in its power of abstract representation that it can be played in many different ways, including in ways that miss its core structural dynamics to the point where constant defeat remains durably indecipherable. #weiqi

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Living Go @osmoticferenc

3 years ago

Playing deep games like Go is rising in popularity because an increasing number of people have a better grasp of the strategic dimensions of many fields of endeavor, including within their own profession, but yearn for the opportunity to actually design and deploy strategy.

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Living Go @osmoticferenc

4 years ago

With the dramatic events in today’s world, one wonders how it can still be moral to be interested in placing little black & white tokens on a board. Then I think of the orchestra playing on the sinking Titanic, and the pros who finished the Atom Bomb game. What has Meaning?

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Living Go @osmoticferenc

4 years ago

When much of your territory is secure, ie impervious to encirclement, reduction, or destruction, it is not unreasonable to challenge neighboring unconsolidated competing groups situated close to strong groups of your own stones. S.U.

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Living Go @osmoticferenc

4 years ago

The delusional expectation of acquiring big territory unopposed does not amount to “fast development” or even to a “territorial style”. The hollowness of this “strategy” without a plan becomes clear when the attacking stones are promptly separated, surrounded and captured. S.U.

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Living Go @osmoticferenc

4 years ago

Geometrically, encircling a group of stones requires more resources & time than the besieged group needs to defend. That leaves the attacker open to counter attacks until the besieged group is fully sealed in. The damage the attacker may sustain can be substantial. S. U.

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Living Go @osmoticferenc

4 years ago

Often times, it is a relief to squeeze out two eyes for a large group that is in trouble. It’s almost no territory, but at least the opponent does not get your stones AND the space. And if you are holding the line elsewhere, you might - just might - come out on top. S.U.

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Living Go @osmoticferenc

4 years ago

Standard Go tactic: surround a group and let it run out for its life. As it runs, it becomes an even weaker target while the attacker makes more gains. But the hunter can become the hunted if he escapes, regroups, and counterattacks an attacker that has not properly consolidated.

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Living Go @osmoticferenc

4 years ago

When the middle of the game comes down to competing for the center because sides & corners are taken, there is a high probability that coming towards the center from all sides will result in fierce fighting, destroy any potential for making points, and result in a neutral center.

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Living Go @osmoticferenc

4 years ago

Go evokes many parallels with real world conflicts. Transposing actual geographic features to the goban doesn’t work well. But translating the relative strengths and weaknesses of real protagonists in terms of Go shapes can provide a valuable - if very abstract - metaphor.

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Living Go @osmoticferenc

4 years ago

Some say the fuseki is hard. For others it’s the chuban. And the yose has its own challenges. We may have proclivities for one stage over another but they are all part of the same unknowable totality. Enjoy the flavor of each stage and see how core principles link them together.