The idea for me is to set the shape there territory-wise (in a profitable manner) and then use the new information of his outside shape to choose which move to invade/reduce with. It was not a bad way to play, but I shouldn't have wedged directly after, as that was actually gote. However, foregoing the exchange as you suggest is also not a bad way to play!

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​@@GoHermit It's possible that S9 works, but what I couldn't see clearly was the variation that happens if he answers S9 with T2

Wouldn't this result in a big eye after you block at T3? Usually a big eye means lots of liberties. But perhaps it's not enough in this case?

@@GoHermit I think you will find that the eye is not that big after black crawls to S2 (white would collapse). Instead, white would have to answer T2 with S2 and the final result will be a seki (which I couldn't read clearly during byo-yomi). Comparatively it's a bit worse than just playing S2 right away as white.

I get a lot of methane when I’m playing online…

Thank you for your feedback. On my end the audio seems normal except for those times I accidentally sit too far away from the microphone while playing/reviewing. And perhaps on some early videos. Does anyone else find the audio too low overall? I will check on other devices as well.

Who has REAL confident in Go?

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As I see it, one of the great pedagogical strengths of Mr Tall's streams is that he is so transparent with his thought process, warts and all. Go being such an elusive game, it is both refreshing and, I think, very instructive to see in practice how hard it is to decide on where to put that darn stone, even for such a strong player.

Yes. Mr Tall and his cat are the human face of Go!

@@matsf8268 Yes, I agree with this. I have compiled a list of feedback that I will send to them. At least one should be able to access history of problems and be able to explore moves.

I agree with you 100 percent. The end games can be killers while the opening is a doodle. I also feel I am not learning by just having as puzzle marked wrong. that is the major weakness of an otherwise superb system. I still wish Kanin wasn’t giving away puzzles I paid money for though :)

@@stephenbrivati3233 Ah, this is a good point. I was thinking that there are so many and they are randomly generated anyway. Maybe I will go back to warming up on 101weiqi :)

​@@KaninTuzi Unless there are really few problems on that pay-site, I cannot see how you solving some of them here would be a problem -- the viewer who sees you doing them AND can remember the correct solution, or even that the shape in question has a certain status, should be happy regardless (and certainly the sponsor likes you showing the site). That said, when the topic is up, I might suggest going straight into playing (and analysing) in the streams. That's where your excellent ability to play and explain your thought process on the go really, really shines! I understand your need for warm-ups, and I DEFINITELY admire your willingness to do them in front of your viewers (I would not do it even if you gave me money for it), but enjoyment-wise, my 2 cents would be to start the stream post-tsumego. Obviously, this is merely an aesthetical point here on YT, since one can just forward to the "Start the Game"-shout out (although it might make a difference for new viewers), but it does make some difference for us who also love joining you on twitter when we can. Obviously this is just my 2 cents, though, and in any case, I think you are doing the go community such a service with your streams that if you really prefer to warm-up while streaming, then heck, go for it (no pun intended)!

Your kidding. Every word of the great Mr Tall is indelibly etched on my brain (except the Chinese.) Your point is well taken about whether or not someone is really going to remember that much. It just doesn’t feel quite right that a service I pay quite a lot of money for should suddenly become freely available on a site every week. A few weeks back I got so frustrated with one of HJJ’s endgame puzzles I posted it on a discussion forum . That felt like a really hard decision since the work is the property of HJJ. For a so called ‘beginner’ problem it generated pages of the most complex math discussion I have ever seen in regard to this Go. Anyway, I hope Mr Tall does go back to the old puzzles but I certainly aren’t accusing him of doing anything unethical. It seems we just live in an age where information gets passed around without much thought behind the work at times.

@@kyuplayersmind I will add it to the description. You can see it also in the lower left in the beginning of the video and later above my head. The promocode is: "CharlieGo". Cheers!

@@KilgoreTroutAsf Absolutely! Although, it should be clarified that these levels do not correspond well to actual levels anyway. For instance, when Ke Jie 9p tried these on stream he made his first mistake on the 3k level. And he failed his first attempt at passing the 3d level 😂

@@MatthewJRedman Ah, I could do that. I actually made a video on it on my Bilibili channel last year, although, that's in Chinese... Link is here: 【【围棋】小飞压定式：尖顶-哔哩哔哩】 b23.tv/5ThlXP3

Amazing, thanks so much! I'll check that out for sure.

@@quincylatham3199 A nifty trick

Indeed, although it also doesn't work. At the time I was very sleepy as is evident from the fact that I went several moves after that not even realizing he already had two eyes 😂

It happens sometimes with new uploads that some people get low resolution or no sound etc. Try reloading the website or restarting the app! The resolution is fine on my end.

@@KaninTuzi Yes indeed. it's OK now.

@@matsf8268 It's called Katrain and it's free. You can find it by googling Katrain Katago 👍

@@KaninTuzi tackar :)

Thank you! Really appreciate that, and happy that I can provide some value 🙏

"Major protection against dementia" is vastly overstating. There's tenuous evidence at best.