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RE: One photo every day: Go (109/365)
Miro did eventually show up, though, and I was relieved albeit a bit angry. I questioned where he'd gotten the money from and he'd tell me he took some money from his "savings jar".
Hahaha. I remember you said Miro can make you grow grey hairs soon. I guess this is one of the reasons.
Well, since you lost the game thrice, I think you deserve to ask for a reply. Lol.
So sad that @markkujantunen lost the game too. There is always "another time".
My wife and I had been to a house viewing and I had to take her home first. I came late and a bit hungry. Because @gamer00 and Markus had not yet finished their game, I decided to drive to the supermarket in the video you saw in the previous post to get something to eat and to get some refreshments for everybody. It's a ten minute walk from where @gamer00 lives. As I arrived at the supermarket, I met Miro to my surprise. He was holding a 500 ml plastic bottle of soda like a crypto investor HODLING his precious coins. I asked him if he wanted a ride home but he said he'd drink the soda first. When I was done shopping I asked him again if he wanted I ride but he declined saying that he'd rather drink it here in order to return the bottle and keep the refund money. I offered to take the bottle to a recycling machine at our local supermarket in return for 20 cents instead but Miro declined saying that he preferred to walk. I replied "as you wish" and drove off.
When arriving at the main door of the building @gamer00 lives in, a friend of the boys' I knew appeared with a bicycle he wanted to take to the storage room. I held the door open for him and we exited the storage room via another door that led to a smaller hallway. The friend asked where Leo and Miro were just as the door was opened. The club room door was next to that door and also open. Immediately after I'd finished answering, I heard @gamer00 say "What!".
Hahaha, Miro is definitely a smart guy and he just displayed that. He wants what he wants. I am surprised that he went to the supermarket alone. That brave of him. I hope @gamer00 wont be exclusively mad at him.
The streets between home and the supermarket are very quiet. They are quite narrow and there are speed humps and other traffic-slowing structures along the way. Child abductions by strangers are vanishingly rare. Miro was just in violation of the limits as to how far he was allowed to venture from home but in no actual danger. My daughter and all her school mates used to walk home a distance longer than between @gamer00's home and the supermarket unaccompanied by an adult from school every day in first grade. The city of Lahti has top-notch street infrastructure. For instance, there are plenty of underpasses along every major street or road with busy traffic.
One game is nothing. I have played go for a little over 25 years. Assuming an average of ten games per week, that amounts to about 10 * 52 * 25 = 13,000 games. I've taken breaks lasting up to a month every now and then. But at times I have binge played up to 10-15 rapid games per day for a week or so. I'd say I have played maybe 10,000-15,000 games in total. With this kind of numbers, you don't simply care about the outcome of one game very much particularly if it's just a club game.
According to European Go Database I have played in 134 tournaments and 672 games. There is a number of tournaments played prior to the introduction of EGD in 1996 that are not included in the database. I started playing in 1992. I'd guestimate that I have about 750 tournament games under my belt now. Throwing away a tournament game where my position is good because of a lapse in concentration tends to piss me off but much less than it used to about 20 years ago.
This is a great game i can say that. Since it doesnt only develop ones knowledge, it also involves smartness, right thinking and wellness of mind. I dont know of this game before, i knew about it when i started curating @gamer00 posts. I will like to ask if this go game is in Olympics and how much international exposure has it got? I dont know of it in Africa and South America.
You are right in that go develops the mind in a well-rounded manner. Emotional balance is important in many sports but in go it is crucial. The space of possible moves is so vast that, particularly in the opening and the middle game, there countless possible strategies. Too much aggression or fear lead to defeat. A player must strike the right balance between the two. If the situation requires, a player will have to turn their thinking upside down and devise another strategy better suited for the overall situation. At every step of the way a whole-board evaluation must guide the choice of moves. It is cognitively hard but clinging to ideas will show and a skillful opponent will use that against you. For example, if you demonstrate that you absolutely must have some piece of territory or a framework and your opponent judges that they can afford to give them to you, they will try and extract maximum price for that. The stronger a player is the longer they will put off commitment, only committing to a strategy at the last moment.
Go is not in the Olympics and neither is Chess. Go is also known as Igo in Japan, Baduk in Korea, and Weiqi in China. It is played by millions or tens of millions of amateurs in China, Korea and Japan. In Europe, there are about 10,000 to 20,000 people playing it. Ditto in North America. It is played in Latin America as well. There are amateurs at the highest levels in Argentina and Brazil. At least South Africa and Madagascar have national federations. It has very little exposure in the Middle East. For some reason, Mongolia is rather weak at go despite the fact that Ghengis Khan knew the game and I think he might have played it. Australian go is at a level similar to a typical European country.