On Thu, 2008-09-18 at 15:15 -0400, Jeff Nowakowski wrote: > You need foundations to build on. One foundation is life and death; > however, life and death is just a simple consequence of the capturing > rule.
I think the way I learned worked beautifully. I learned with Tromp/Taylor rules on 9x9. I had no concept of life and death of course (because I was a beginner) and there were many situations where I tried to defend clearly dead groups or even groups that were unconditionally alive even though I didn't need to defend them. It didn't take very long at all before I figured out all the basic cases for myself. Even the 2 eye rule I had "heard of" and even understood it from a book, but it was still rather abstract to me until I actually experienced it for myself. Only when it actually happened did the light bulb go off and I said to myself, "this 2 eye thing really is a big deal." That's the beauty of Chinese style rules and scoring. You don't need to understand any advanced concepts in order to start playing and you can do this without any level of confusion and discouragement. - Don
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