On 09.01.2017 07:19, David Ongaro wrote:
>> accurate positional judgement
you also rely on “feelings” otherwise you wouldn’t be able to survive.

In my go decision-making, feelings / subconscious thinking (other than usage of prior sample knowledge, such as status knowledge for particular shapes) have an only marginal impact. For me, they serve as a preselection filter besides my used methodical preselection filters. In blitz, the impact is larger when time is insufficient for always using the methodical ones.

Another factor is my pruning of reading. I would not describe it as "feelings / subconscious thinking" but as "prune according to knowledge / principles AFA time allows, otherwise call my mental random generator for deciding what else to prune". I.e., it is a conscious calling of random for particular purposes.

Instead of suspecting feelings, read my books
- Positional Judgement 1 - Territory
- Positional Judgement 2 - Dynamics
to better understand why my accurate positional judgement does not need feelings / subconscious thinking. Even in ca. 1/3 of my blitz (10' SD) games, I can apply it (less frequently per game, OC).

About the only relevant feeling permitted in my go is a contribution to the decision on my first move as Black, which may also depend on my mood (besides opponent, komi, time, knowledge).

18+ years ago, I used feelings and the like for quite a few decisions during the middle game and (early) endgame. Decision by feelings led to low winning probability so I decided to overcome them by creating much more profound theory, which improved my play and enabled(!) me to survive (to use your words) as a go teacher and go book author.

> Mathematically (the approach you seem yourself constrain into)

Reasoned decision-making need not always be low-level / mathematical.

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robert jasiek
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