Murphy's Law of Go
¹Pagina a fost modificata la 2 aprilie 2002

"Don't expect to win, since you lose the game if you dream."
"You end up losing the game, as soon as you thought think that the game is won."
"If there are many bad moves available, you dare to choose only the worst."
"The weaker player chooses moves that help the stronger player win."
"Stones placed before a match with a big gap of strength are placed so that a weak player presents it to a strong player."
"Superficial knowledge is a cause of great hurt."
"A weak player chooses the only way to death after a long period of deliberation."
"Every solution breeds new problems."
"One misfortune comes on the neck of another."
"The hidden flaw never remains hidden."
"Choose a move to make immediate gains instead of a move to make big territory in the near future."
"There are wrong moves beside good moves."
"Don't move further if your stones group seems to be dead."
"Don't peep the point where you can cut."
"Go strategy can be defined as follows: Player should make moves so as to increase the possibility of the opponent making a blunder."
"It becomes more serious at the latter part of the game than at the begining of the game when you make a blunder. You should regard it as welcome if you make a blunder in the early period of the game."
"The game of Go has been described as follows: A game of go is a sequence of failures, strategy involves playing to minimize the possibility of failure."
"When reading out a fight in a handicap game against a stronger player, calculate the number of the opponent's liberties by first counting your own and adding one."

" The meijin doesn't know joseki"
"The more you study joseki, the weaker you are in strength."
"To learn many josekis by heart does more harm than good."
"You should not imitate a professional player, you should make moves by yourself."
"When you are relatively sure that you can't make a certain move, assume you can't."
"Plays that works in theory do not work in practice, plays that work in practice do not work during the game."
"A game which begins well ends poorly. A game which begins poorly ends worse."
"You may seem to be very strong when you are learning from professional player, but it is never the case in actual games."
"The time taken to deliberate next one move is inversely proportional to the advantage of that game."
"Thinking is the same as the sleeping for weak players."
"A long period of pondering will not help you make progress, but you cannot become stronger without deliberation."
"You do capture stones, but you cannot win the game."
"If you understand a professional player's comments, you do not need to study under him any longer."
"When your stronger opponent shakes himself nervously, the game is hopeless."
"When your stronger opponent says, I am hard pressed to find a good move, the situation is becoming be interesting for him."
"If your stone jumps over the board, you will lose the game."

"The higher the prize money is , the more difficult it is to play a famous game in big-title matches."
"There is never a famous game in the big-title matches."
"It is very seldom that the give and take are divided almost equally, even when we play josekis."
"There is no battle if you don't make moves."
"A battle begins after finishing fuseki."
"We make alternate moves in the game of Go. Therefore, the situation seems to swing back and forth as stones are played."
"There are many cases when even stones moved in order to help in a battle become only obstacles."
"'Gote' move has 'sente' potential."
"Offense is the best defense."
"Too offensive a fight leaves a thin situation as a whole after your opponent has weathered your attack."
"There is no better way but to make possibilities existing in a situation without straight attacking."
"Don't want so much unless you lose a game."
"What the pros do easily on TV is impossible when you try it on the real game."
"There is no sequence so simple that it can't be messed up."
"Any difficult sequence can be made impossible if enough time is taken to study it."
"If you play one good game a month it will be outside of tournament play."
"The simpler the sequence, the greater the chance of blowing it."
"There are two kinds of luck: (1) Bad Luck - yours and (2) Good Luck - yuor opponent's."
"If you don't expect it, and it's bad, it will happen."
"You will never make three good moves in a row."
"A game of the Go which begins well ends badly. A game of the GO which begins badly ends worse."
"There is no eye-forming sequence even when you pray to God."

"If it gives you enjoyment, it's play; if it gives you relaxation, it's hobby; if it gives you a nervous breakdown , it's Go game."
"It feels good, you are doing it wrong."
"The best way to play the game will become obvious as soon as the game is ovver."
"No move ever ends up exactly as planned."
"When you have successfully overcome one bad habit, two others will surface."
"The most valuable tip is the one you forget."
"A 5-kyu handicapper who set his sight high will remain a 5-kyu."
"There are many types of players - all of them equally ridiculous."
"A good disposition indicates that the game has just been started."
"Players who try to emulate 'Meijin', 'Honinbo' and 'Kisei' simulataneously, you resemble none of them."
"If we learn from our mistakes, then Go players are the most learned peoole on Earth."
"The time spend on studying 'joseki' will inversely proportional to the amount of improvement."
"Nothing looks as good close up as it does from far away. Or - nothing looks are good from far away as it does close up."
"All probabilities are 50 percent. Either a thing will happen or it won't.Likelihoods, however, are 90 percent against you."
"If a situation requires undivided attention, it will occur simultaneously with a compelling distraction."
"The time it takes to rectify a situation is inversely proportional to the time it took to do the damage."
"All alternatives are infinitely complex. The illusion of simplicity comes from focusing attention on one or a few sequences."
"If you distinguish between good advice and bad advice, then you don't need advice."
"Urgency varies inversely with importance."
"The most delicate component will the one to drop."
"Given a bad start, trouble will increase at an exponetial rate."
"There is no job so simple that it cannot be done wrong."
"Opportunity always knocks at the least opportune moment."
"Things go right so they can go wrong.

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