Playing Go IRL pictures

**lysnew** · December 11, 2018, 6:22am

The place looks like EGC2018 in Pisa, Italy. I think I’ve seen those tables.

**S_Alexander** · December 11, 2018, 1:45pm

**GreenAsJade** · December 13, 2018, 8:13am

No undoes in that game

**Kosh** · December 13, 2018, 8:16am

Indeed. A good way to play Capture Go perhaps.

**violaine** · December 13, 2018, 8:19am

Eraser? I dunno.

**GreenAsJade** · December 13, 2018, 8:20am

That sure doesn’t look like pencil

**violaine** · December 13, 2018, 8:25am

Let’s hope they don’t start a ko fight

**S_Alexander** · December 13, 2018, 8:47am

Even with pencil erasing stones would look ugly. But luckily I have no such problem. Because no one even knows about go, I just draw my recent games from memory so I can stop at first capture.

**lysnew** · December 13, 2018, 8:58am

WHY???

**Misjamig** · January 19, 2019, 11:41pm

With @CalabiYau in Geneva today:

**Conrad_Melville** · January 20, 2019, 3:58pm

What an amazing example of distorted perspective! When I first saw this, I thought, where did they get a 19 x 25 board?

**S_Alexander** · February 2, 2019, 9:42am

**Oni** · February 9, 2019, 4:01pm

From this perspective it looks like the board should be turned 90 decrees.

**drifterwolf** · February 10, 2019, 12:07am

not a game picture though

**dekiru** · February 10, 2019, 1:14am

On the one hand, there are multiple cases of 4 stones being inside a square. On the other, that’s really cool.

**_oopsImStoned** · February 10, 2019, 5:58am

If your girlfriend made that; you should marry her.

**kickaha** · February 10, 2019, 7:40am

So much aji .

Happy birthday!

**S_Alexander** · March 9, 2019, 12:00pm

Pair go:
https://vk.com/album-84673794_259817609

Rapid go:
https://vk.com/album-84673794_259817726

**S_Alexander** · April 8, 2019, 7:12am

Hey, people. 6-7 April I participated in Moscow Cup Open. Here’s my pics from there.

Going to the place along the river:

Here’s the place:

But actually tournament is in the second building behind:

Second floor:

Around the corner:

Right here:

Evacuation plan with some suspicious translation:

Playing hall:

And people:

Mostly kids with parents and dan-ish adults. Some weaker adults having fun too, but in fewer numbers. In total 122 participants.

Sankin 6d vs Nikolich 4d, last game of a round:

Everyone’s watching it:

Shikshin 3p vs Kaymin 6d:

Some other pics:

Cup itself:

Kaymin 6d vs Sankin 6d:

Referee table:

Shikshin 3p vs Chernyh 6d:

Looks like some people of culture are playing gomoku:

In the end Shikshin won all the games and thus won the cup. I didn’t attend closing ceremony to avoid rush hour.

As for me I lost four in a row and only managed to win last game. But at least I ended with a positive moment, 1-4. Unlike many people I recorded the games on a paper kifu but I’m too embarrassed to even look at them.

Look at the duckies:

In a hall next to the main one there was 13x13 tournaments for beginners. And also a stand with go trinkets and books. I bought two Chinese books, mainly because they’re Chinese, so they also hold cultural value for me. And a paper fan to hit myself on my head with.

Tsumego aren’t necessarily hard, but I’m really bad at reading.

These are used so there’s even someone’s name(?) on it:

**smurph** · April 8, 2019, 12:18pm

Mh, I’d usually classify 7-9 move tsumego (depending on how obvious you want the result to be) as dan material.