A Nobel prize-winning novel* about a go game.


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I was not feeling well today, so I didn't go to the go club.

I have long avoided playing computer games because they are time sinks, and computer go proves to be as addictive as any other game. I am still not playing human players online as often as I should, but I am definitely improving against MFOG.

( Progress at 4 months )

I have started going to the local go club. The club president is an amateur 4-dan. I've played a couple of games with him. He gives me a 9-stone handicap and then utterly destroys me. I've played a couple of games against a 6-kyu player, each time with a 6-stone handicap, and lost both of those (mostly due to making stupid errors ( Read more... )

( In which I overcome my hikikomori tendencies and get a beat-down face-to-face. )

( Finding the point where your game went south, and SF Novel update. )

( Finish that book, and kill those stones. )

( Fight to the death, damn you! )

( In which Americans are stupid, I have occasional long dark afternoons of the soul, and I sometimes win against a superior foe. )

( No one who reads my go posts, anyway. )

( Or can you be more vexing than me? )