Teasers from several recent posts on Janice Kim 3P’s Learn To Play Go blog:

To 3-4, or to starpoint – that is the question

Whether ‘tis better in the endgame to suffer

through gote and komi an outrageous half-point loss

Or to take on a big dragon with only one eye

And by opposing need to resign. To invade, to die…

(The Opening Dilemma; Feb. 6)

Once in a hot pink moon I’ll go on a Go bender, when I throw off the thin, thin, thin mask of normalcy and indulge in ergonomically disastrous, unlimited Go playing and reviewing, a reverse Matrix where I’m plugged into an espresso machine, existential crisis at bay and the good times rolling…

(48 Hours; Jan. 23)

For the past several days, the immortal lyrics off of They Might Be Giants’ first album have been going through my head: I’ve got two songs in me/And this is/Number three…

(IYDSIYDGI, Jan. 14)



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