Living Cosmos

The topic for discussion is this position right here – http://eidogo.com/#AQPfGG8:0,16

Position 2 is where Yang Yilun would say to play based on his opening principles – it is the first third class move and no first or second class moves are available.

Position 1 is where Shygost would say to play based on his opening principles – it is an approach to that corner. To be fair, the very first thing in Shygost’s list is “issues” – and the left side has issues – open skirts, unsettled groups. But in the opening, you are trying to rapidly sketech out territory and cant afford a gote fix.

Let’s look at the approach:

Now, if you approach the corner and White plays passively, then the common joseki leads to you eventually playing at Position 2 (where Yang Yilun would have you start) – http://eidogo.com/#AQPfGG8:0,0,0,3

But the thing is, a serious White is going to pinch and a position like this might result: http://eidogo.com/#AQPfGG8:0,0,1,1,1

and that is frustrating for Black because he got no corner territory and no side territory.

Now for Yang’s play at the midpoint

From what I can see, no good comes to Black for such a passive move: http://eidogo.com/#h6fDvz:0,1,1

I learned something from my teacher (Shygost) today:

The heart of Go is getting moves for free by forcing your opponent to respond to weaknesses.

The way to find this heart is to look at all the weaknesses on the board and fix yours while threatening his!

In the very act of following someone, you give up responsibility for your own enlightenment and at the same time slander the Buddha within.

David Heimburg, NBAA

I paid for SAP Training from Ytek Solutions in Gahanna, OH. The instruction is teacher led, not student led. There are no labs during the lecture cycle for you to burn-in what is taught – you get 6 hours of a monologue, week after week. The instructor is from India, speaks rapidly and choppily and if you add to that bandwidth issues for realtime video, you get very poor sound throughput.

The course materials are not SAP standard, but written by the instructor. They were littered with errors and I have emails to back this up.

They also switched the course time. They promised a morning and afternoon session, but then switched to morning only without advising me.

Those are the issues with the Ytek rendition of SAP. The rest of the issues have to do with SAP itself.

I find the SAP extended star schema to be quite neat. You get quite a lot once you shoehorn your data model into their way of doing things.

But overall, I must say that I like the standard relational model much more. It is far more flexible and intuitive. I still dont really understand all the components of the star schema thoroughly, even after buying 5 or 6 texts to try to get the idea down.

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