Life In 19x19

It depends on the book as well as the level of difficulty. Some books are much more dense such as dictionaries. For books like the elementary go series it's usually between a few days and a week depending on my familiarity with the subject. Problem books can vary from half an hour to days or ...

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Does anyone know of any major Japanese news outlets that also have English translations? Specifically, I am looking for coverage of the quake from Japaneses sources (in English).

I know a couple places for reading Korean news in English (i.e: m ), but I don't know any similar Japanese sources ...

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My study plan is just memorizing games and solving tsumego. Although I'm not interested in joining you with your plan, I am interested in how it works out for you. If you would like to play on a weekly basis or have study sessions where we could discuss games or joseki on kgs I'd be happy to do that.

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In the last week I've only played two games, both face to face. I lost one due to a large mistake late in the game, I won the second game. I had some computer issues the past few days so I couldn't play online even if I had wanted to.

Over the past week I did all the problems in the shodan life and ...

I have go club tonight so I can't play you tonight and I may be away for most of the weekend but any time next week will be fine. Just let me know when you want to play, you can message me here or on kgs.

In the past week I haven't done as much as I was planning to do.

First, I underestimated how much time it would actually take to do all the problems in Cho Chikun's Encyclopedia of Life and Death. I just finished it last night, that's 861 problems in 7 days.

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I mostly agree with Dusk Eagle. Most of the time tsumego are either boring or frustrating for me. I do it even though I don't enjoy it because it helps me to improve. I enjoy playing just as much as (maybe more than) studying though.

Have you looked at The Endgame by Ogawa and Davies? Chapter 2 on counting has 9 half-board problems, chapter 4, The Macroendgame has 9 full-board problems, and chapter 5 has 20 full board problems from 2 of Ogawa's games. There are also quite a few smaller endgame tesuji problems in chapter 3.
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More specifically I'd like to get a book of full board endgame problems like what Bill has been posting in the Study Group section (Problem 1, Problem 2). The only one I know of is 新編ヨセ辞典 but it's out of print.

I do have books. I have the both the Lee Changho Life and Death and Tesuji series and I have 5 Japanese books (two of them being from the nihon kiin dan level series). I've worked through them all multiple times except for the problems which are too hard for me to solve and the ones from the nihon ...

I'm willing to do things I don't like to do to try to improve. I know tsumego is good for improving reading ability and improving reading ability is important for getting stronger, I don't like tsumego but I'm willing to spend a few hours on it every day (as long as I have no other commitments) to ...

I would feel much more discouraged if I thought that no matter how much effort I put into something I couldn't get better. I can control, to some extent, how much time and effort I put into something. If I felt that my ability to improve at something was out of my control then why bother putting ...