New Go Proverbs thread

mdobbins · **#21**

dfan wrote:

One that's worked for me: "If you don't know where to play, pretend you're three stones stronger."

or if you don't know where to play, pretend that you are kibitzing.

Redbeard · **#22**

dfan wrote:

One that's worked for me: "If you don't know where to play, pretend you're three stones stronger."

This reminds me of Anne's Rule:
"If you don't know where to play, you must have sente."

POGO · **#23**

"The way to icecream is go" (for my son)

"If The game is lost by 100 point's,Nuclear tsuji"(in contrast to is you lose less then 7 stones tenuki)

Laman · **#24**

Even if you are playing against a fool, it doesn't give you any reason to play like a fool as well.

shapenaji · **#25**

Beware the flood.

(AKA, following the flow can have catastrophic results at times)

daniel_the_smith · **#26**

Biondy wrote:

Don't listen to Lady Gaga.

^ fix'd

HermanHiddema · **#27**

Know the difference between "Divide and Conquer" and "Fighting a Two-front War"

daniel_the_smith · **#28**

If you're busy making eyes, you're not winning the game.

Solomon · **#29**

Disregard endgame, acquire dragons.

Joaz Banbeck · **#30**

Make bad shape inside your opponent's eye space.

Phelan · **#31**

Read the "Drunk Go" thread and lose two stones strength.

Chew Terr · **#32**

Play go drunk and lose two stones (They must be around here somewhere...)

Phelan · **#33**

Just thought of something that is not quite a proverb, more a humourous Go term:
Ghandicap- when you avoid fights with a weaker player, instead of giving him stones at the beginning.

Mosdefgo · **#34**

I thought of this one on the way to school today.

Your not really dead until you can taste the dirt in your mouth.
(This refers to playing a group until you know that is dead.)

wessanenoctupus · **#35**

A country boy tries to drink water straight from a bucket

this is simethng an old Korean man muttered to me as I chased his dragon by msread Anf died instead

Harleqin · **#36**

Mosdefgo wrote:

I thought of this one on the way to school today.

I will assume that they do not teach english at that school, so please, let me show you a little piece of grammar:

Quote:

You are not really dead until you can taste the dirt in your mouth.

Yes, "you are" can be shortened to "you're" (the "a" is omitted and replaced by an apostrophe while running the words together).

"Your" is a possessive pronoun. Pronouns never have an apostrophe in them: "my", "your" (ancient: "thy"), "his"/"her"/"its", "our", "your", "their".

wessanenoctupus · **#37**