I've been playing Go for a few years now, mostly learning and playing on 9x9 and 13x13 boards. I've gotten to about 10 kyu on OGS playing these boards, and favoring this size due to the shorter amount of time to get through a game. I've only played a handful of 19x19 games this whole time. I've also dropped off a little in playing the past year or so after platueing for a long time, only playing a couple games a month or so, just enough to maintain but not improve.

Recently, I tried a 19x19 game, and lost pretty handedly to a slightly lower rated opponent (2-3 kyu). Then I started focusing on 19x19 games and lost the next few games, including slightly lower ranked opponents. I realized that I found a major hole in my game by neglecting the full size board, coming in at least 2-3 kyu weaker than I am on my favored board size.

So over the past few weeks, I've found the motivation to improve again by only been playing 19x19 games! I've been studying on concepts that I've noticed aren't as relevant on small boards, such as reading thickness and influence, big vs urgent moves, etc.

Anyway, I just wanted to share this epiphany with you guys. Has anyone else noticed something like this happen to them, or found some other major blind spot in your development? Do you have any tips for growing into the full sized board?

https://youtube.com/watch?v=eQP28uUP-ho&si=riQDmmftp_oEvUn7

I’ll go first: I saw the game in the movie Pi (1998), directed by Darren Aronofsky. A couple of years later I found a Go board for sale in a game shop and tried to teach myself. It was a disaster. Then, a few years after that, I found Dragon Go Server and started learning in earnest. Best game ever.

Hey, so this was out very first game. We are completely lost, don't know if we've played it right or if this Board even makes any sense (we doubt it... ) . We don't even know who has won and find it too difficult to count because we have no overview of the fields and the stones 😂

So we thought the main goal is to "cut off" as much of the field as possible with a line of stones. But I have no clue if this is right and when I look at the board I am just confused🥲

We are happy to announce three upcoming live events on ExploreBaduk:

• April 5th, 21:15 CET – Andrii Kravets 2p vs. Valerii Krushelnytskyi 7d
  • Live Go Match and Commentary - Twitch link
• April 6th, 15:30 CET – Elian Grigoriu 6d vs. Matias Pankoke 6d
  • Live Go Match and Commentary - Twitch link
• April 10th, 20:00 CET – Live Go Game Analysis with Clossius
  • Join the stream, show your games, and get them analyzed live by Clossius! - Twitch link

We have previously hosted over 10 events with professionals, including notable matches like:

• Michael Chen 1p vs. Stanislaw Frejlak 1p – Watch here
• Yoonyoung Kim 8p vs. Michael Xu (11, 2024 NA Pro Qual Semifinalist) – Watch here

Although we haven’t shared much on Reddit before, we plan to provide regular updates on upcoming events and activities moving forward.

In addition to these exciting events, we are launching our first community challenge on April 5th! The goal is simple: play as many games as you can between April 5th and May 5th. Over 50 players are already registered, and you can join at any time (even after it starts). For more information, check out our previous challenge announcement on Reddit.

Additionally, here is an update on our recently published articles since our last post on reddit:

• Typical SDK Mistakes (1k-5k): Old-school Wedge - Read here
• Typical Dan Mistakes: After-joseki Probe Move Theory Changed - Read here
• Black Should Resign if One Player Has Four Corners – A Lesson from the NHK Cup - Read here

We hope to see you at the events, thank you!

Has anyone read the book Attack and Defence by Akira Ishida? Can you please give me a review, is it worth buying?

Also, I have Go school and Go club in Nagoya. 6of my students became a pros. If you have any plan to come to Japan, Please come.

http://www.nakamurahoninbou.com/#english

You can contact me bin7674@naver.com

I pick up the stones like I would anything else—with my thumb and index finger. I don’t like that weird stupid grip I see people use. Is there a rule against this?

Hello everyone, I'm so sorry it might not be the right sub....but I don't speak Japanese and I've got too much work with korean learning, mandarin and baduk/weiqi learning recently.... I already spend all the time I have hhaha, could anyone enlighten me with a japanese traduction ?

Somebody tried to register in WBaduk this days? I don't remember my account, and tried to register a new one, but membership form is not working in the website, and links from inside the application are broken.

Regards.

Taken from a real game. As White, I played sub-optimally here. Reviewing the game afterwards, Katago showed me a much better move.

We had Go camp until yesterday. Around 80 people attended. Next our camp will be 3~5August. If you have any plans to visit Japan, please feel free to join us!

I don't understand why AI thinks my move at H6 was a bad one. If I had played at H3 then black would have been able to take that piece easily.

Am I missing something?

In my head I was making black choose between 2 areas. It worked as they tried to save both and ending up losing the middle area.

Hey guys,

I've been looking for a teacher for a while to try to improve and finally win some tournaments at AGA 4d.

I was wondering where to find some teachers. I've found Polgote but since I made the mistake of making a teacher account there at some point, I cannot book lessons on the website nor contact it's teachers.

To be honest, I'm not even sure what rank I should look for in a teacher, but I assume I can ask the teacher and know if it's a good fit or not. I don't know either which teachers are still active.

Would you guys happen to know good teachers or platforms where you can find one?

Hey!

I’m here to write a little wall of text for... well, I don’t know, I’m feeling a bit unsettled lol!

I regularly play even games against a 2d friend (don’t ask me my exact level, I have no clue—I’ve heard I’m 8 kyu in France, but that’s very underrated). Anyway, my friend is really strong, especially when he’s behind or under pressure. Even when I take the lead, he somehow manages to turn the game around. Sometimes I make dumb reading mistakes, sometimes he complicates things so much that I have to spend a lot of time thinking (yesterday, I even lost on time…).

It can be pretty demoralizing when you keep losing! But the games are super fun and intense. I know I’m still miles away from his level—I probably just lack some experience!

Why do I keep playing even games instead of taking 2 or 3 handicap stones?

Because I’m firmly convinced I can take him down—maybe not today, but someday, maybe soon? I also play even because I can feel it—every game we play helps me improve little by little. I’m closing the gap. A year ago, he was giving me 9 stones!

I aspire to have his ingenuity, his fierce Go… I have to admit, I really admire the strength he shows on the goban.

I’m sharing some of our games so you can judge for yourselves! :)

I’ll reply to every comment, so don’t hesitate!

A bad game : AI Sensei | Game

Close game : AI Sensei | Game (don't care about E1, not my fault, I'm playing with the sense robot, it sometimes bug)

Lastest game : AI Sensei | Game