singular wrote:
It's not just me, is it? Today I played a game and from the middle until the end I 'saw' an opponent's large group as dead when it wasn't. This was a clear case of two liberties on a group of mine he needed to capture in order for his to live. I 'saw' my dead group as part of my putative killing group. I'm surprised my opponent didn't catch on to my strange behavior. It's privately embarrassing nonetheless. . . . I cottoned on to it in the endgame and my heart and brain sank.
I was reading that other thread about not playing due to anxiety. Someone made a good point that the anxiety is often not due to potential losses but rather fear of mental vagaries such as this. While I enjoy just taking the plunge and playing regardless, these kinds of confusions happen to me all the time. I mean, every single game, there's always some ridiculous oversight. I always harbor an embarrassment.
My question is, does this lessen with overall improvement, or am I doomed to have a gaping hole in my pattern recognition no matter how much better I get in other ways? I'm wondering if there are general trends.
Does anyone have any good oversight stories to help me feel better?
On a related note, I misread constantly, too. It's gotten to the point where I view each game as a war on vague ideas. I'm so much worse at reading in-game than when watching the games of others or doing problems. Uh, is this normal?
I'm 9k by the way.
I was reading that other thread about not playing due to anxiety. Someone made a good point that the anxiety is often not due to potential losses but rather fear of mental vagaries such as this. While I enjoy just taking the plunge and playing regardless, these kinds of confusions happen to me all the time. I mean, every single game, there's always some ridiculous oversight. I always harbor an embarrassment.
My question is, does this lessen with overall improvement, or am I doomed to have a gaping hole in my pattern recognition no matter how much better I get in other ways? I'm wondering if there are general trends.
Does anyone have any good oversight stories to help me feel better?
On a related note, I misread constantly, too. It's gotten to the point where I view each game as a war on vague ideas. I'm so much worse at reading in-game than when watching the games of others or doing problems. Uh, is this normal?
I'm 9k by the way.
This happens to me too, pretty routinely, and I also assume it's not normal and get really unhappy about it.
in the local Go group and in the local school’s Go workshop which I instruct … all of them playing black (with a handicap of 4–5 on 13x13). I used to tell them never to take White’s moves as the “Hand of God”, I needn’t tell them anymore 