Life In 19x19

Hi, I was thinking of finding/making a decent pamphlet to promote Go.
Google search gave me this:
"Promoting Go: The Guerrilla Go Marketing Toolkit - Go Game Guru
https://gogameguru.com/promoting-go/
A good Go promoter needs a good toolkit! Here we've tried to assemble a no-nonsense list of the ...

No problems solved, was out camping. Played couple of games and I'm still 1d. Kind of weird. Has kgs gotten weaker?

I'm closely following your blog, waiting for new posts.

Worked through 52 problems today from Cho's Elementary. Now if I see a very simple solution I think I'm being tricked and start searching for more complicated alternatives, and in 10 min, when all possibilities are excluded I still feel slight uneasiness.

I mean all of it(elementary through advanced) and how helpful was it? I know lots of people tried it but haven't heard of anyone who worked through all of it.

karaklis wrote:

cuttingblue wrote:sorry for a stupid question but what do you mean by "hardwiring problems"?

That means, if you see a go problem, you don't have to read it out. You can solve it immediately, because you know the solution.

Also, DrStraw wrote a very nice article on the topic: http://senseis.xmp.net/?SteveFawthrop%2 ... feAndDeath

cuttingblue wrote:sorry for a stupid question but what do you mean by "hardwiring problems"?

Not at all a stupid question I mean solving a problem so many times with looking at the solution so it becomes etched in your memory.

If you want to study fundamentals Kageyama might not be your best choice, I'd recommend Fundamental Principles of Go, written by Yilun Yang http://senseis.xmp.net/?FundamentalPrinciplesOfGo. I personally think this is one of the best go books ever.

I don't know how that happened, but in my last 3 games I played as white against 2k, 1d, 1k, won all of them by resign and was promoted to 2d. Feels weird.

As for my studies I solved about 20 problems from Cho's Elementary Encyclopedia of L&D, and ~30 30k problems from goproblems.com. I'm also ...

Interesting that you say that you play without reading and could make it to 1d. I thought the limit would be around 7k - that's where I am stuck for about a year. What have you done to get to 1d without reading?

Mostly focusing on fundamentals, first- defend weak groups, second- attack weak ...

Game against [2d] from 2 years ago, I'm black.


Today's game against [2k].


I think I'm much weaker now.

Hi everyone! I don't know what exactly should I write here so I'm just going to sketch something and we'll see how it goes.

I've started playing in 2004, played on and off. I think I was most enthusiastic in 12k time(before the ridiculous kgs rank system reboot). My first and also the best book I ...