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Is attachment underneath on the 3rd line a legit technique of invading? Because it seems pretty hard to stop.

Seems shogi took everything: sente, gote, shape, joseki, tsumeshogi etc.

It's sad, but Hikaru no go couldn't happen in real life, because in real life briliant players don't have children which are also briliant in the same discipline. This just doesn't happen. So somebody like Akira coudn't exist in real life.

I think it's quite widespread that children of distinguished chess players etc. also try to play chess etc. and are arguably decent at it, but not outstanding. I haven't heard about any such example either in chess or go or in other discipline. The nature just strives for the average.

First time got trashtalked in go.

He accused me of cheating in like first minute of the game after his very bad play.

Dude blundered medium group in a very simple tesuji. After that he was certain I'm cheating.

Josekipedia says that black here, if doesn't want to play a ko fight, shoudn't under normal cirumstances secure the cut in A and should just tenuki. But why?

If white cuts in A we either need to crawl on the second line or give up 6.

I'd like to share thoughts on Pandanet also known as IGS for those who maybe don't yet know this server i.e. haven't played there.

I stuck at OGS and noticed many complains, for instance Triton Baduk's on OGS ranking system. They claim OGS rank is very unreliable*. Triton Baduk and some other people recomanded Pandanet so I decided to move there to try it out and check what my rank will be.

TLDR: I like Pandanet very much. I recommand it to everyone with kyu >= 15.

I have played at Pandanet for about 2 weeks. Here are my observations:

• Unlike at OGS you need a server client. I installed GoPanda2.
• Instalation of the client and registration was easy.
• Interface is relatively nice. Could be more modern, but is ok.
• There is plenty of people at Pandanet. I was suprised. There is plenty, at least when the Japanese aren't sleeping. Numbers vary from some 700 to 2000 depending on time in Japan and in the US. Among them there is likely several hundreds (100? 200? 300?) bots and "guests", but still there is rather plenty of people.
• Depending on the hour, people with kyu < 15 might have some problems with finding an opponent. Above 16 kyu they shouldn't have any problems. For absolute novices and people with kyu lover than 15 I would recommand OGS.
• The playing style at Pandanet is peaceful. Perhaps even more peaceful than at OGS.
• I read that DDKs at Pandanet are stronger than at OGS. To me they seem weeker, but maybe I have progressed.
• Client doesn't pair me with bots.
• Unlike at OGS, handicap games are standard. I turned them off at OGS because I found defeating someone with, say, 2 stones of handicap not that easy. But I started to like them at Pandanet. I feel kind of like Hikaru in the school go club 😂 I recommand seting searching opponents 2 stones stronger and 1 stone weaker. Beating a slightly stronger opponent with 1 or 2 stones of handicap isn't that difficult.
• You can check handicap and komi at game info.
• Canadian byo yomi is standard there. I like it very much. Games with Canadian byo yomi still tend to be long, but has faster pace, because there is no incentive to stall your game.
• They also play there with very short main time but that is fine with Canadian byo byomi. I think I have started to like playing go again thanks to Pandanet and Canadian byo byomi. Prior to that I played go to progress, but didn't really like it, because my games at OGS were very long and exausting.
• After the game you need to manually set dead stones, but this is fine.
• We're playing here where Sai probably used to play 😉
• I can recommand Pandanet to all (except maybe kyus lower than 15).

* - several days ago OGS announced that abandoned rank games against bots. Reportedly some people abused this system. So there are now chances OGS rank will become more reliable.

Akira seeing his father playing Sai runs to the internet cafe where ha met Hikaru and discovers that he is indeed Sai, because Hikaru like the last moron went to the same cafe.

This is what real Akira would do. He's got plenty of time, because Hikaru set 3h for each player.

What y'all think