Re: translations



To ja Wento wrote:
> ian wrote:
> >
> > To ja Wento wrote:
> >
> >>I noticed that on many occasions people refused to play and gave up the
> >>game when I started in tengen. This is of course not a rating loss as
> >>most if not all of systems on which I played do not rank games with one
> >>moveo only. I then started discussion in my local club about the issue.
> >>Some gave me the answer about politness but argued differently. They
> >>claimed that starting in tengen says:'you, my oponent are of such minor
> >>strength that I let you start the game' or something along this line.
> >
> >
> > To which you can either answer "Do you think you've started to take
> > this game a little too seriously?" or "Don't professionals open at
> > tengen?" Generally I suspect it's more because people are unfamiliar
> > with tengen openings.
> >
> I found this strange to limit one's opening to anything - after all if
> you open in a gloriously wrong way then you will lose and no amount of
> self confidence will help here. As stated already I checked later on to
> find out that in fact professionals play such openings too.
> I am not familiar with this opening either but using it proved to be a
> lots of fun! I also have (possibly misleading) impression that my
> strength improved, at least in relation to my fellow players in local
> club.
>

Actually I find you canstart with any old move and still have a good
chance of winning. Consider [1] The Big Wall Strategy [2] the four 7-7
point openings [3] crazy-dezomb-fuseki [4] the jaseik keima

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