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Nine stone game given by visiting professional Nakayama Noriyuki to BGA member Eddie Smithers, of unknown rank.

BGJ #61, 1983

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The “Suzuki–Nishimura style” opening concept for five-stone handicap games is for Black to quickly establish this two-stone formation on the side.

eg. as so:

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To handicap or not to handicap?

Hi, this is something that I’ve talked a little with my “go-guru”, who was introduced me to this game (and is about 2k in strength), has been playing go long before there where go servers The question is “how do you progress faster?” We both agreed that (obviously) you should play stronger opponents, but he thinks it is better to always play with handicap. I think it is better to play a slightly stronger opponent but without a handicap and this is what I always do (i choose …