Life In 19x19

I just want to say thank you Kirby for all your hard work on this site as an admin. It's a challenging and often underappreciated job.

You can take a long walk off a short pier for posting this passive-aggressive way post.

I'm up here talking to myself virtually on a thread I started and you ...

I understand there may be differences in opinion regarding various topics, and what constitutes a "personal attack" or disagreement has some degree of subjectivity.

That being said, for direct comments regarding individual users ("I genuinely dislike you as a person", "I see you as smug in your ...

Consistency is my weakness.

I have a hard time staying focused on learning this game beyond a casual understanding of the rules, plays and mechanics.

This post isn't really to highlight some great truth or epiphany that breaks me through.

It is to remind me that if I want what I say then I have ...

I haven't played in about 15 days as I'm focusing on things at work to the point I just haven't set time aside to really study any of my deficiencies as of late.

I've regressed to losing but 100+ points again because I have gone back to my comfort zone in purely fighting instead of building moyos ...

Hi Southtown - I am an admin on this forum.

We have a set of guidelines for using the forums, which are listed here: https://lifein19x19.com/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=1006

There are two that stand out as being relevant in this thread:


1. Personal Attacks
Remember the Golden Rule: do to others what ...

Next time: stay on topic like the others because I don't appreciate someone trying to tell me that my problem is something else when I have told the exact reason of my problem.
https://lifeatavature.net/the-xy-problem-how-asking-great-questions-will-get-you-far/

You can take a long walk off a ...

Likewise, I can respond to the constraints you have set for the advice, or I can point to a potential blind spot, from my distant observer position. My attempt may have been a total miss but you should occasionally take the uncomfortable as a pointer to where real progress can be made.

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Read about keima/the knight's move under the haengma section of sensei's library since I know I like to use that a lot in games for defense and offense.

I gain a bit of an insight that I give away influence early on when I do contact fighting seeking to push in a specific direction only to be ...

Apparently Southtown almost doesn't know any theory, so probably studying almost anything should lead to an improvement.

I do not disagree with your assessment of not knowing theory as I have dedicated no effort in learning theory up to now.

I use tsumego-hero.com way more than goproblems.com as ...

You die live groups in gote, never try to live groups that could easily live and keep playing to the end making more and more mistakes. Instead you need to make sure your groups are alive, can escape or otherwise are not losing you the game.

That is what I don't understand. I don't know if groups ...

Completed 47 Tesuji problems on tsumego-hero.com

Played 4 games for 1W - 3L

Looked at one pro game once to see the sequence.

Today was a focus on playing light and not getting over-concentrated in one specific area to often.

I don't see the whole board yet and I did virtually no reading during ...

I read some self deprecating analysis here

I would ask more questions about one's journey before making that kind of assertion.

I live a life where critical analysis and honesty of my situation is a requirement to keep moving forward.

Where you see "self-deprecating" I see myself being 100 ...

I desire to grow stronger in my ability to play this beautiful game of ours.

Problem is I've been stuck around 3 kyu for a solid 5 years now and it is time to admit that I messed up my learning curve.

I'm strong enough to muscle wins based more on my opponents mistakes due to my dependence on ...