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Sports and art are related.  Athletes and artists are one and the same.  Kobe Bryant can work magic with the basketball.  He can dribble it to make the ball go whichever direction he desires.  He can shoot it with precise angle and velocity, even taking into account his body's own position and momentum, having done so, probably hundreds of thousands of times.  Horowitz, Perlman, Yo-yo Ma.  These masters can equally control their instruments with versatility and finesse.  With grace and beauty.  But to get to their level, they must have practiced daily, building up strength and dexterity.  And even some skills that is a bit intangible, such as court-sense, or musical expression.  Monet, Picasso, Degas.  Larry Wall, Linus Torvalds, James Gosling.

Go is just like sports and art.  You need to develop the skills daily, to build up mental strength and dexterity.  A skilled go player can make the stones move according to his will.  He can make them jump lightly across the board or let them stand firm along the side.  He knows all the intricacies of the positions, shapes, and formations, having seen them in various forms hundreds of thousands of times.  When a stronger player is playing against a weaker player, the weaker player becomes clay.  The stronger player takes the clay, and molds it into whatever shape he wants, and the weaker player is helpless against it.  The stronger player can do this because he is a master of the craft, just like a skilled athlete, a musician, a painter, or a programmer.