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		spot on Aug 20, 2009 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: My Obsession With Chess That's the point: it's so hard that playing is less calculation and more like visual conversation.

xenophanes on Aug 20, 2009 | [–]

No, strong Go players calculate everything out, exactly, quite far.

spot on Aug 20, 2009 | | [–]

if they were so exact then why do they disagree? i play go and i'm speaking from experience.

xiaoma on Aug 20, 2009 | [–]

Good go players regularly count the number of points an area under contention is worth.

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