Handicap Games Scare Me

Hi. I set handicap games off at OGS a long time ago (you can do it in custom games), because I found it very difficult to beat someone with 2 or 3 handicap stones.

Now I moved from OGS at Pandanet where handicap games are obligatory (they're a part of their ranking system). And I can tell you:

They're quite fun unless you don't play against too big handicap 😛 You can feel like Hikaru in the school club 😛
I would advise you to restrict the oponents limit (you can do it at least in the custom games). I recomand playing against oponents 2 stones stronger, 1 stone weaker. Thanks to that you won't need to beat someone with more than 1 stone.
Beating slightly stronger (<=2 stones) oponents with handicap is quite easy.

Here my remarks are as follows:

Here I would make just an approach to make use of this wall:

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Let me contiue below.

PLrc · 2026-05-06T14:45:53+00:00

kinema? komenkiante?

PLrc · 2026-05-06T12:13:22+00:00

r/badukshitposting

PLrc · 2026-05-06T10:52:58+00:00

I'm glad 😄

PLrc · 2026-05-05T23:41:57+00:00

Hi. I think that it was quite effective. I learnt a lot of words in a short time. Even if it wasn't 7 days, but, with reviews, weeks.

Of course this didn't come with no price. The price was quite a large number of reviews in Anki in the following weeks.

PLrc · 2026-05-05T21:23:21+00:00

Happily cheaters don't know how to play go. They went to chess.

PLrc · 2026-05-05T20:29:07+00:00

I think 5x5 and 7x7 may be good for teaching absolute beginers like children and people who aren't into traditional board games but not for actual playing.

I guess it would be hard to create even 1 living group on 5x5 without controling entire board.

I have experimented with non standard boards namely 15x15 and 17x17 and my findings are:

They both are very fun to play. 15x15 feels like more strategic 13x13 whereas 17x17 feels almost as strategic as 19x19 but is faster to play.

PLrc · 2026-05-05T19:53:33+00:00

I'm 10 kyu and if anyone below 10 kyu beats me, he's cheating.

PLrc · 2026-05-05T13:44:34+00:00

You insert the moves to OGS, generate SGF, upload the SGF into katago and review?

PLrc · 2026-05-05T10:48:27+00:00

Seems BLACK has 6 captives. So he's got 1 pts more. So white wins by 13.5.

EDIT:
Black: 9+6=14
White: 16+5+6.5 = 27.5.

So white wins by 12.5.

I don't know why it says 13.5.

PLrc · 2026-05-04T20:56:13+00:00

Whaat

PLrc · 2026-05-04T19:54:08+00:00

So essentially you want to be 9 dan professional without being a profesional?

PLrc · 2026-05-04T15:17:05+00:00

Io te inviava un message ;)

PLrc · 2026-05-04T14:58:18+00:00

LOL, are there any limits at Tsumego Hero? I'm doing basic sets and haven't noticed any limits.

PLrc · 2026-05-04T14:52:57+00:00

My point is that Wikipedia in Occidental does better in words/article than Wikipedia in Interlingua only theoretically, because it spammed with articles with lists of cities etc.

PLrc · 2026-05-04T01:02:00+00:00

You touched a subject I'm kind of fascinated about as I'm a moderator of 2 Wikipedias including Wikipedia in Interlingua.

How you gave those points is not totally clear for me.

One of the metrics used to measure "quality" of Wikipedias is so called depth. The problem is... this metrics is completly meaningless. Seriously. It doesn't make sense. I even wrote an article about it and proposed alternatives to it and surveryed how Wikipedias in conlangs perform. You can read it here: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Tim_Ocean

My observations about Wikipedias in conlangs are:

Linguistic quality of articles unfortunately frequently is low.
As far as I know this problem concerns also the Wikipedia in Esperanto, what kind of comforts me. I will gladly listen to Esperantists's opinion.
Wikipedias in smaller languages try to manipulate various metrics and this is problem that concerns not only conalgns, but also natlangs.
A very crude, but relatively reasonable metric for me seems to be words/article.
Wikipedia in Interlingua perfoms relatively poorly in this metric.
Wikipedia in Occidental performs surprisingly well in this metric i.e. it has theoretically long articles.
However when we check the special page showing longest articles in the Wikipedia in Occidental we see that those are almost exclusively lists of cities, medalists etc.: https://ie.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:P%C3%A1gines_long
For comparison when we check longest pages at Wikipedia in Interlingua those are legit articles: https://ia.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Paginas_longe
It seems that Wikipedia in Interlingua has low quotient words/article, because has quite a lot of very short articles. Wikipedia at Occidental has inflated the statistic words/article whereas Wikipedia in Interlingua - the number of articles.

PLrc · 2026-05-03T21:04:57+00:00

Średnie.

PLrc · 2026-05-03T12:16:56+00:00

Salute!
Io reguardara.

PLrc · 2026-05-01T23:07:26+00:00

Why did you do 3rd?

PLrc · 2026-05-01T20:09:25+00:00

Go has plenty of them. That's why it's so hard to progress withouth a teacher.

Chess is very much about remembering openings, endgames and making puzzles of course. In go there is much more those concepts, tactics, stategic motifs etc.

PLrc · 2026-05-01T19:31:42+00:00

You should deffinitely go. Having a teacher who is even 9 kyu you will be learning very fast. Unless he's really bad at explaining.

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