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One point? That’s not too much.

I was playing Go with my daughter, Alex, a couple of days ago (she is 6).

Normally we play capture-Go, but this time she decided to play “territory Go”.

We played on 13×13, and I tried to keep the game very close and let her win - she doesn’t like to lose, but somehow it turned out that I won by 1 point. I counted the score, and told her:

“So… I won by one point…”.

Alex (after thinking for a few moments):

“One point… that’s not too much!”

Me (relieved):

“No, it’s not much at all!”

Alex (explaining to me patiently):

“It is not much because 1 is only the second number - the first one is zero.”

Next time I’ll make sure we have a jigo. :-)

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4 Responses to “One point? That’s not too much.”

  1. jose Says:
    May 13th, 2007 at 4:42 am

    ;0)

  2. Lukasz Says:
    May 21st, 2007 at 9:54 am

    One day She will read that entry … Will she laugh or will she get angry …

  3. Sorin Says:
    May 21st, 2007 at 10:41 am

    I don’t think she’ll get angry :-)

    It is a good pedagogical method to let a beginner win some.

  4. fosa Says:
    May 21st, 2007 at 7:55 pm

    sounds like you’re spoiling her, but I’ll probably be guilty of that someday too

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