You know you are a Go addict when …

You tell your boss that this strategy will give us sente.

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Right, I’m a carpenter, and sometimes I want to say “that’s joseki” when talking to clients about standard building practices.

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according to Kageyama’s book Lessons in the Fundamentals of Go, daily routines are (or at least were) called joseki in Japan.

Specifically the quotes he gives are

A remark overheard one clear morning: ‘I’m going to follow my joseki and take the dog out for a walk.’ A conversation overheard in a crowd of people leaving a theater: ‘Everything was arranged to bring about a happy ending.’ ‘Yes, just like a joseki, but it was still interesting.’ A television sportscaster describing a baseball game: ‘Here the joseki would be to bunt the runner up to second and hope the next batter drives him home, but let’s see what they do’
These days the word ‘joseki’ has come into general use to describe any fixed form of behavior. There can hardly be anyone who does not know what a joseki is…

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This project still has some aji

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When you organize a tournament, and the only prizes you may think about are books, boards and stones.

When you participate in a tournament and you have to win the (small) prize money to flight back home.

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…When you start playing Go with stones at the beach.

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when you stab people with gobans for no reason

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When you stab people with “TheGoban” for no reason.

No, my statement is not supposed to make much sense. :stuck_out_tongue:

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Accomplice to murder?

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… When you don’t hit snooze because you have games about to time out.

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… When the only memes you like are go memes.


5/7 are Go forum!

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When you reach to convince yourself to do something and well, in the middle of your mess you decide to wash your stones… Well first you gonna check what is the right way to wash them, let see if I find anything in my old goworld… Oh How did I miss that article on Shuei’s life?

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When you go into deep bad mood for a week, because the solving tsumego software you found is only for mac users.

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When you look outside from your 30th floor all the buildings around and you think: “it should be a close one, let’s count”

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…when you buy a mac to run tsumego solving software.

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when you have a bad dream about bad moves and get eaten over and over

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…When whenever anybody mentions dragons, you resist the urge to say : " How many stones? ".

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…When you talk about skill in terms of kyu, dan, and pro.

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…When you use go terms to talk about things in real life.

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When you happen upon a relic of “gwiyomi” and your brain autocorrects to “byoyomi”.

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