What is your Go playing style?

So… I wasn’t actually going to respond to this, but then I remembered I actually had something semi-relevant to add to the conversation.

A couple of months ago, I was fortunate enough to be invited to a Discord group with a few other go players. They were all trying this thing out, where you upload a bunch of your SGF files to a program, and it would analyse your games and tell you about your games and what sort of style of play you had, using machine learning and whatever else… im not a tech bro nerd… not my thing, I’m more, anime and art, and whatever…just not my flavour of nerd… anyways, I got through the process of uploading like 19 games, because i couldnt be bothered with doing any more than that… and this was the result.

Sadly, the website that I did this on, is now, no longer operating. But I will share the link HERE, so that you can check it out, and see if any of you Tech nerds know if you can glean anything useful out of it for yourselves.

However, my actual opinion on this topic, from a general sense, is actually much more strongly aligned with @jlt.

In fact, I recently reiterated my opinions on “style of play” in another thread, here. And i very much stand by what I said there, and i think it very much feeds into what jlt is saying in that style is very much a matter of being a reflection of our understanding of the game. However, I take it a step further in suggesting that style is irrelevant until you possess an appropriate level of ability to make informed decisions.

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