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How memorising, playing over or studying games changed YOU!
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Author:  Tami [ Mon Aug 15, 2011 3:43 am ]
Post subject:  How memorising, playing over or studying games changed YOU!
Hi everybody,
Please could you share your experiences with memorising, playing over and/or studying pro games?

I'm not asking what you think is the best way to study, but I would like to know what you have already done and what you thought the effects were.

I have made another poll, but if you have anything to add to the data, please feel free to :bow:

I would ask players of below 5-kyu to kindly refrain from voting on this occasion, as you are probably improving so rapidly that it is difficult to speculate on the exact reasons.

My thanks as ever!
Author:  malweth [ Mon Aug 15, 2011 11:20 am ]
Post subject:  Re: How memorising, playing over or studying games changed Y
I attribute most of my improvements to this. Pre-5k included!

From 18k to 12k: 75% of my study was the memorization of pro games. The rest was reading books (especially the Elementary Go series).

From 12k to 8k: James Davies' Tesuji was the biggest influence.

From 8k to 5k: Appreciating Famous Games was the key for me.

From 5k to 1k: Tsumego.

I also received lessons from Tsurukame 6d once a week. I don't remember what my starting and ending ranks were, but defintely DDK to high SDK. (18k to 8k or 5k perhaps). These were a lot of help too, but I'd count this in the realm of game review.

I'm now turning back to pro games, memorization (Multigo 4 has a nice format for this) and study with good commentary (Heart of Go Discovery Series). I'm also studying Joseki (a weak point of mine) and lots of Tsumego. I like to mix it up and study whatever I'm most interested in at the time.

Playing games has never been an important part of my studies. I try to play a few games a week, but I like lots of thinking time and it can be difficult to commit (I have 3 kids: 6yo, 2yo, & 3wo).
Author:  tapir [ Wed Aug 17, 2011 1:34 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: How memorising, playing over or studying games changed u
How or how much? :)

I memorised too few professional games. I feel when I do it, it makes my game less confused and sharper. (I started recently.)

I played over many professional games during the last years without much effect at all. Intensity matters.
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