Life In 19x19

Completed graded go problems for dan players volume 1. I am doing graded go problems for dan players volume 2 now.


Read through Get strong at tesuji. I am going to do 501 tesuji problems now.


Readed reducing Territorial frameworks. Haven't made any progress on direction of play.

Played one game ...

jlt wrote:

Bill Spight wrote:
, , Vulgar play. But it succeeded wildly.

Just wondering... what do you mean by "vulgar play"? Heavy? Or something else?

He means crude play.

Let me be more explicit then. In most of the games before the last one (or perhaps even all games), it is apparent that both players are bots, or at least humans selecting moves among bot choices. Here are symptoms upon which I made this judgment:


Clean josekis that are popular among recent ...

Knotwilg wrote:Quickly review your game to find the biggelt mistakes

If he's 24/23kyu I don't get how he's going to be able to know his mistakes. Unless you mean seriously obvious ones like a group captured.

jlt wrote:Now the opening looks normal but the endgame is quite strange.

''Now the opening looks normal but the endgame is quite strange''. ???? your phrasing is strange?

Done half of graded go problems for dan players volume 1.

Only done 14 problems of 1001 life and death problems.

Read a couple of chapters of get strong at tesuji.

Haven't got started on Reducing Territorial frameworks. Read a few chapters of direction of play.

Did 1 game. I won the game. my ...

Ok. here is a game I lost. I played poorly thanks to playing fast. my opponent was a '1dan''. I felt like I was getting toyed with.

I was black.

I am about a 1 dan player. I often win against 2kyus and 1kyus on kgs even tho I get the occasional loss to them. anyways I am aiming for 4 dan on kgs.

Here is my study plan.

Tsumego section.

Go through Graded go problems for dan players volume 1.

1001 life and death problems advanced off ...

I mean, 5 days ago your level was about 15k, and now even LeelaZero can't find any bad moves. That's amazing progress.
Goes to show how much the right way of learning and the best teachers matter from the very beginning. Still on the edge about whether they are right and best in his case, but it's ...