Important Philosophical Questions + POLLS

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That can even be the case for longer time setting so for any time setting a timeout can be because of the bad management of time in itself (because if the complexity of the game) or because external constraints or just a resign.

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772

Yup, that’s all of my losses by timeout: I don’t know a move, and then I wait too long finding one until I forget to submit before the time runs out (sometimes even as bad as “oh yeah, I’m timing out in two hours, I’ll decide on a move in 30 minutes” and then forgetting it).

That’s by far the most annoying way to lose in my opinion. Sadly I’ve been doing it regularly lately…

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What do you call this connection shape?

  • rappa tsugi, rappa-tsugi, rappatsugi, rapatsugi etc. (Japanese)
  • trumpet connection (Anglo-Japanese)
  • shuāng hǔ, shuang-hu, shuanghu, shuangu etc. (Chinese)
  • two tigers, double tiger(s) or tiger pair (Anglo-Chinese)
  • double tiger’s mouth (English)
  • lion’s mouth (English)
  • dragon’s mouth (English)
  • Other

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Also, are my additions rapatsugi and shuangu “mis-spellings” or “adaptations”?

  • Mis-spellings
  • Adaptations
  • “Vulgar” adaptations

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774

Space Invaders.

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775

I put other because I never used any word for that. I do understand shuang hu in itself (may miss the tones in pinyin but ok) but never heard too.

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776

Very fitting indeed, the shape being a B52 having lost his two bombs.

If we talk about the full shape with white in the dia , it reminds me of some space ships from the saga starwars

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777

What is your most usual way to manage long ladders (Shicho, stairs…)?

  • I read it from the start
  • I move it near the end
  • I draw a corridor which he should stay inside
  • I have my own way, please tell us.

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First contemplate yourself in a mirror then tell us if you feel somewhere that you are a go addict. (Ok I keep it private again)

  • Yes
  • No

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778

Why keep the second poll private? We all know what people are going to vote.

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779

When everyone knows the result, it’s even more important to keep it private

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780
You play go as black and have more points than white. Who wins?
  • I
  • Black
  • The black stones

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781

Well it depends if the game is finished or not.

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782

Ιt’s about how you much you identify (or: ascribe the first person pronoun singular I) with the colour you play. Do you say “I win” or do you say “black wins” or “the black stones win”?

I will say “I win”, but I say “white loses”. Or “you win”, if white is winning and I want to be polite to the opponent. And I will say “black loses” when I play badly :grin:

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783

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784

Makes me remember a Yahoo user question about something like “can we forbid video games for adults who lose so much time on these?”

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785

What would throw you off more?

  • “Official” Go board goes from 19x19 to 20x20
  • “Official” Go board goes from 19x19 to 18x18

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786

Both ideas make me cringe. :scream:

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787

Both because I’d rather keep a tengen (17 or 21)

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788

With a bunch of correspondence games running, you will meet time-out along the way by some of your opponents. Even if the results of a mass time-out will be annuled, some of them will still count toward your rating, inducing a bias between your real level and the calculated one.

So what is the estimation of this bias in your own ranking?

  • 1 level
  • 2 levels
  • 3 levels
  • More as 3
  • Nothing really noticeable.

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789

Let’s say that statistically those who do timeout are 50% stronger and 50% weaker, so only half of them must be considered.
Furthermore, other games that aren’t timeout reduce the impact.

I believe that my ability fluctuates more than that. :smile:

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790

My linguistic poll addiction is too strong to overcome ;o

When importing new loanwords (eg. kotatsu, one of those comfy Japanese pillow-table things, or miko, a priestess or “shrine maiden”) into a gendered language, do you…

  • Always make them masculine
  • Always make them feminine
  • Always make them neuter (if there is that gender)
  • Compare them to words of similar meaning
  • Compare them to words of similar form
  • Compare them to words of similar etymology
  • Make them random genders
  • Try to avoid having to gender them
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As an Anglophone, this is a question I get curious about.

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