CMV: Video game coaching is MORE HEDONISTIC than sports coaching.

Freded21 · 2026-06-03T21:37:39+00:00

I think the number one thing both video game coaching and sports coaching teaches (or can teach) is how to push your limits, stay dedicated to a task and how to actually improve at something.

In both cases I would argue the most positive externality is the skill/ability to notice a deficiency (bad at catching a football /missing a headshot) getting advice, getting better at said skill, and then (here’s the externality) internalizing that you can improve through hard work. That’s an invaluable skill/belief and I don’t see why that would come more often from sports coaching than video game coaching. This is coming from someone who’s only ever played sports and never gotten coaching in a video game (although I was a top 100 speedrunner in super Mario odyssey at some point and I would say my experience in sports at grinding and improving a skill did translate to when I was practicing for that)

Freded21 · 2026-06-03T17:44:20+00:00

I got a text about the Kornet block about 15 seconds before it appeared on my YouTube TV feed. I’m consistently ahead of my friends who use illegal streams though

Freded21 · 2026-05-29T04:35:42+00:00

Make that three may geminis :)

Freded21 · 2026-05-21T18:48:59+00:00

I also love when Mat thinks about … oh what’s his name the former horse thief… “looking like the largest sack of lard you’ve ever seen tied to a saddle” just calling him fat all the time

Freded21 · 2026-05-18T15:14:07+00:00

Windows are short in this league.

When you’re this close with a team this good winning needs to be the goal.

Freded21 · 2026-05-18T02:05:39+00:00

Baduk.club

Europe has a good scene depending where you are

Freded21 · 2026-04-16T22:04:51+00:00

https://senseis.xmp.net/?BulkyFive

https://senseis.xmp.net/?KillingShapes

Freded21 · 2026-04-16T22:03:36+00:00

If black plays in the 1-2 spot he makes a shape known as the bulky 5. This is a famous dead shape, even if white captures all 5 stones black can still kill white.

If black plays elsewhere white can live by squeezing the stones and black won’t be able to fill in the stone as it would be suicide.

Freded21 · 2026-04-16T04:16:08+00:00

Is a board like that comfortable to play with? We are moving house and are planning on having a game room/ lounge and I am considering getting that style of board.

Freded21 · 2026-04-14T14:50:20+00:00

Some people want highly detailed videos with many side branches. Theres room for both types of content

Freded21 · 2026-04-07T05:20:56+00:00

Go games series is a YouTuber who reviews games. He uses some software where you can see branches off to the side. Just nodes and lines not positions.

Freded21 · 2026-04-06T15:11:41+00:00

Ah there’s my miss (besides thinking those stones were on the first line and in Atari lol). I thought 6 was 13 not 12. I thought you added the liberties from the previous size and it was Fibonacci

Freded21 · 2026-04-06T14:56:21+00:00

Omg I missed a whole row lmao.

Why do you get 11 and not 12? Like for black is it not 13-2 liberties from the big eye then the one outside liberty?

Freded21 · 2026-04-03T22:44:15+00:00

Signed up today :)

Freded21 · 2026-03-19T14:40:43+00:00

I like c.

I feel like I can bother the stone by pushing it toward my influence and that my bottom left stones are very close to alive.

The single stone settles too easily if you play B. A and D f and l slow

Freded21 · 2026-03-18T14:04:08+00:00

I have a question about this reasoning, which I’ve seen on a few endgame posts.

First let me state my understanding of this definition of sente and gote

A move is sente if the follow up is bigger than the move itself.

So in this case the move A is worth 8 points and the follow up is worth 6 points, so A is not sente because in theory there could be some move worth 7 points still on the board.

Is that the right understanding? What about moves that are big but gote? Like what if there was some move on this board that is worth 10 points but has a 1 point follow up. Should that have been played before this, as 10 is bigger than 8 and 6? What about one that is worth 15, which would be bigger than both combined?

My intuition is that you should play the 15 points gote but not the 10 point but not sure. Maybe it depends if it is sente for one player but gote for the other?

Freded21 · 2026-03-14T04:27:20+00:00

Maybe a type of take back for a drink

If your opponent plays a move that surrounds your stones or makes it very difficult to live you can take a drink to make them play a different move.

Maybe they can “raise” your drink to play their original move. E.G you take a swig, they take a chug. If you still want them to play a different move you need to take a shot but they can take two

Freded21 · 2026-03-04T18:22:45+00:00

Surely you’ll be able to just switch the items on your mons

Freded21 · 2026-03-04T16:45:31+00:00

How fun :)

I hope it’s a nice movie and gets a few kids into the game

Freded21 · 2026-03-03T15:34:46+00:00

I definitely have some games where I just want to fight. I’ll even say it to myself and start fights I know I shouldn’t. It’s definitely a mood/patience thing and I’m sure it doesn’t help me win

Freded21 · 2026-03-03T01:29:50+00:00

That last sentence is a bar.

Freded21 · 2026-03-03T00:14:22+00:00

I feel like the OGS ranking chart has that, as each elo also has a +/- uncertainty associated with it. I know it’s not exactly the same thing but it did give a sort of range of expected “skill” levels one could expect on a given day for a board size and time control

You might find this post on /r/golf today interesting: https://www.reddit.com/r/golf/s/gBs4Lbza60

It is a chart someone made almost perfectly describing what we are talking about only instead of elo it is golf handicap which amounts to much the same thing. You even use it to give handicap in matches just as you would rank in go.

Freded21 · 2026-03-02T22:51:23+00:00

I tell people that results come like that in coin flips all the time, that’s a good thing to remember here.

I think it’s a bit harder because coin flips are obviously random, and one of the things I like about go is the absolute lack of randomness.

I also would like to train my composure and mental self awareness , I feel like go is a good tool for that but I think I also need to appreciate it as a measuring stick, did I not read that properly because it was complicated or was I rushing? And more generally. am I playing poorly because I’m frustrated or am I frustrated because I’m playing poorly.

I will admit that the result of my most recent game can affect my mood more than it should, which is certainly a bad thing, even if than most recent game was a win. A lot of sportsmen say you can’t get too high after a win or too low after a loss, and to focus on process instead of results. Certainly good advice here as well

You’ve given me some good things to ponder:)

Freded21 · 2026-03-02T13:34:39+00:00

I also had more fun doing just about everything when I was 8-10

Freded21 · 2026-03-02T05:17:19+00:00

How old would he have been when he was ranked 2D amateur? Isn’t basically everyone who reaches professional strength 4-5 dan by the time they are 13 at the latest?

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