OGS proverbs

Yes, every proverb does deserve a counterpart. :wink:

Honte is for wimps.

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I don’t know what is wimps but I laugh already

Just because you don’t know the joseki, doesn’t mean you can tenuki.

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We are going to some trilogy here

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How about:

“A tesuji on the board is worth two in the book.”

and

“To drive the train onto the whale’s tail.” for those overplays that escape punishment. see: Go Memes! 🧐

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A few months ago, I coined the saying

“If you don’t know what to play in an unsettled corner position, play 3-3.”

Or in its shortened form “If in doubt, play 3-3.”

In my experience commenting games, the 3-3 is usually a key point in the corner, and the success rate of this saying has probably been no less than 75%.

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Rank obsession handicaps your game.

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When in doubt, don’t click Estimate Score.

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“Don’t forget the tenuki option if the move is not in your joseki”

Perhaps reformed as “don’t rush to punish”?

In my last game, I failed to apply that idea and let myself be dragged into complications (it’s a no-komi game, but I didn’t check that at the time).

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When you don’t know a complicated joseki, pretend you do. Probably your opponent doesn’t know it either and will mess up.
Capture

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proverb–Read the proverbs but learn the Go on O.G.S…

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is this only go proverbs or ogs proverbs? i could make some up, but they wont be good for go, just the english chat

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Title is OGS proverbs so I say go for it :slightly_smiling_face:

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Long thinking leads to bad moves.

If you don’t know how to respond, tenuki.

In yose, sente is worth 100 points.

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A proverb adapted to the pandemic: don’t play close to sickness.

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@loredude_Ω

[ 5:27] loredude Ω: to understand shapes, first you must understand yourself.

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to understand yourself, you must understand baduk

to understand baduk, you must understand shapes

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To understand shapes you must eat less pizzas

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Surely you mean ‘for good shape you must eat less pizzas’?

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