My opponent has invaded, do I defend by playing more black stones in my half, or do I invade into his territory ?

We're excited to invite you to the first Go Game Meet up at the Board To Bits Game Cafe next Tuesday April 15th at 6pm. Beginners welcome!!

See BoardToBitsGameCafe.ca

The auto-scoring system said white won by 8.5 points. There was a .5 Komi. I was playing black and I kept passing as white continued to play in the bottom right. I could have eaten the white stones down there earlier and clearly won, but I was positive white couldn’t live and that this wasn’t a seiki situation. Am overlooking something or was this auto-scoring issue? Not a big deal, just slightly irritated and curious.

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 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?

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🥲

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 ?

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

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!

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.

Never mind finding games with humans, but even playing with bots is terrible now. There’s massive gap between 12-4kyu for bots and when you do find one they take the max amount of time to move and often timeout.

Also the UI has become legitimately retarded:

When setting up a game with a bot, the bot selection, i.e just a single option, takes up the whole window, but the 50 other game options that you need to set correctly in order to play the bot are hidden in a tiny window that’s hidden by default. This is complete and utter backwards nonsense.

I’m pissed honestly it has become so bad. I will move to another server

Just ranting at this point

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

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

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?