the Go player's posture

When I learned under Kobayashi Chizu sensei, she taughe us about the differences between the habits of European Go players and Japanese conventions (sitting at a Goban on a table).

From what I remember of her teachings, this should be a pretty good example:



Since the guy in the picture is right-handed, his bowl is placed at his right and the lid where prisonders are supposed to be put is in both players' field of vision (though for pros it is impolite to count the prisoners in the lid).
Furthermore you can see that the elbows are off the table, the hand is off the lid until the moment he knows where he would play and reaches for one stone from the bowl which he would place on the board in a confident way.
From my experience it is not that strict at the tournaments, but you should avoid rattling with stones or play with them making a lot of noise because it annoys approximately 100% of Go players. Except of course the one Boom! you make when putting the stone on the board.


Alright! Find 3 mistakes in this picture:

Hello!

After finding out that I can manipulate many readers' minds by posting my random thoughts in a blog I figured I'd start another for spreading the wisdom and bullshits in Go I accumulated over the years.

This blog is for my wannabe students and those considering to become one!
(This should have been the title for the blog, unfortunately it was too long.)

In several chapters thou shalt be explained the basic shapes and ways of thinking in Go and other useful stuff, until my knowledge is exhausted. Regardless of your strenght, I think and I hope that you will get something out of my blather.

In the first posts I will introduce myself so that you will get an idea what you can expect from me. I won't start writing sensible stuff today since my delicious drink happened to contain a certain mind-clouding substance.

However, there shall be a first lesson for the utterly clueless:
(30k and weaker)

OMG!! I have never heard about Go! What's that?

an introduction to the rules:
http://playgo.to/iwtg/en/

play Go in the internet:
http://gokgs.com/

news and study material on Go (in Europe)
http://eurogotv.com/ (if it asks you to register, don't worry and do it, it's completely free unless you feel like donating.)

a comic on Go
http://www.emptytriangle.com/ (my profile picture was drawn by the artist of this comic.)


Cheers,

to be continued