I'm a long time chess player just learning Go now at age 23. This game is incredible! It hits a lot of the same spots as chess, in that it is incredibly deep and has emergent play, definitely even more so than chess.
Awesome job here! Just a minor detail, but would you mind doing somekind of lowpass on the soundtrack? I got really distracted by some really high pitched constant whirring there :( Thanks for the series!
DAAAAAAAAAMN you Sibicky! I was going to play some video games but now I must remain and enrich myself by watching this insightful and well produced video. :)
Amazing videos.. I think You just made me want to learn lot more about this game again !!! cause I was pretty depressed cause I kept on loosing alot.. thank you so much !!!
I'm a little confused. I've always heard that tiger's mouth was a good shape, and I've always seen it referring to a single set of three stones. What you've demonstrated as bad shape here looks like two tiger's mouths that share a stone. Could you elaborate on why a single tiger's mouth would be bad? It looks like you're making one at 53:16 at the top
+BrothChiler it is black right then, but I figured out why not anyway - you double atari and then white takes at 18-7 and you lose both atari. You'd have to take 2 more moves to atari those stones to get the snap back and I think you're left with a ko, but white won't even let all that happen anyway.
+Jamie Clark At 37:00 black had just played an extension at 18-8 (counting from the bottom, it's actually 18-13). That makes it White to play. And, if it were Black's move in this instance, and black played double atari, White cannot take anything at 18-7, White can't even put a stone in atari from this position.
+BrothChiler that's exactly what I meant, do it instead. But of course black can't do it instead, so my reading was just awful. Gotta start somewhere though, right?!
I'm a long time chess player just learning Go now at age 23. This game is incredible! It hits a lot of the same spots as chess, in that it is incredibly deep and has emergent play, definitely even more so than chess.
it's a beautiful game, way more beautiful than chess if you ask me haha
This was a really useful lecture for me, thanks Nick.
Awesome job here! Just a minor detail, but would you mind doing somekind of lowpass on the soundtrack? I got really distracted by some really high pitched constant whirring there :(
Thanks for the series!
DAAAAAAAAAMN you Sibicky! I was going to play some video games but now I must remain and enrich myself by watching this insightful and well produced video. :)
Very good lecture as usual.
Thanks for sharing.
I lol'd so hard with the "Mother russia" thing.
Yet another great vid on the go
Amazing videos.. I think You just made me want to learn lot more about this game again !!! cause I was pretty depressed cause I kept on loosing alot..
thank you so much !!!
Excellent lecture.
A couple of things were a little too fast for a 20k like me, but still, great stuff.
Thank you
Ruestyle 4d did a very similar lecture on KGS a couple weeks ago in Study Group - Kyu. These are very helpful, thanks!
I'm a little confused. I've always heard that tiger's mouth was a good shape, and I've always seen it referring to a single set of three stones. What you've demonstrated as bad shape here looks like two tiger's mouths that share a stone. Could you elaborate on why a single tiger's mouth would be bad? It looks like you're making one at 53:16 at the top
I know it's been 7 years, but in case anyone's wondering Nick meant to say Lion's mouth, which is another name for the trumpet connection.
eyyyy, A go professional from Romania.
ty very much sir learned alot
What's the book you used for this?
Where did you find the Catalin Taranu video? :)
What book were you referring to?
How long do you play go?
On the first board the bottom left corner was dead with a black stone at 19-2
This was informative and funny, in a corny way. Excellent lesson. Where are you based?
sunshineyon I believe he is from Seattle
+Ethan Frank yes he is
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37:00 why not double Atari at 16-6?
+Jamie Clark It was White to move :P
+BrothChiler it is black right then, but I figured out why not anyway - you double atari and then white takes at 18-7 and you lose both atari. You'd have to take 2 more moves to atari those stones to get the snap back and I think you're left with a ko, but white won't even let all that happen anyway.
+Jamie Clark At 37:00 black had just played an extension at 18-8 (counting from the bottom, it's actually 18-13). That makes it White to play. And, if it were Black's move in this instance, and black played double atari, White cannot take anything at 18-7, White can't even put a stone in atari from this position.
+BrothChiler Unless you mean, why didn't black double atari instead of extending. In which case your comment makes sense
+BrothChiler that's exactly what I meant, do it instead. But of course black can't do it instead, so my reading was just awful. Gotta start somewhere though, right?!
In "Twixt" if you waste even one move you pretty much lose then and there.
Lesson #1: poking the tiger mouth is not bad.
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