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| Author: | SoDesuNe [ Fri May 28, 2010 7:47 am ] |
| Post subject: | My plan to become 3-kyu in 4 weeks! |
If you stopped dreaming, you surely stopped living! I'm at the moment 6k on KGS (didn't play there since one week) but I'm able to beat a 5k-KGS-player at my local Go-club. So, roughly I try to improve two to three stones on KGS. Here's the plan: 28.05.2010, Friday → 02.06.2010, Wednesday: 197 Tsumegos from “Graded Go Problems for Beginners Vol. 3” // ~33 a day 28.05.2010, Friday → 25.06.2010, Friday: 534 Tesujis from “Get Strong at Tesuji” // ~28 a day 03.06.2010, Wednesday → 25.06.2010, Friday 88 Tsumegos (5-move-problems from “1001 Life-and-Death Problems“) // ~4 a day 10 Chapters from “Tesuji“ (104 p.) // one chapter in two days 3*4 and 4*4 Josekis from “38 Basic Josekis“ (27 Josekis // 168 p.) // 1-2 Josekis a day 3 ½ Chapters (Forcing Moves, Inducing Moves, Reducing and Invading large Frameworks, Invasions into three-space-extensions) from “Attack and Defense“ (less than 88 p.) // one chapter in six days 20 Principles from “Opening Theory Made Easy” (167 p.) // ~one principle a day As for playing games: I'm going to play at least three (max. five) serious games against Karaklis over the next two weeks. Then I'm going to play serious RL-games every wednesday (4 * 2-3 games). The rest depends. Goal: Be satisfied with my play at the local tournament on the 26./27. of June and score 4 wins with my estimated 6-kyu EGF-rank! |
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| Author: | Kirby [ Fri May 28, 2010 7:55 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: My plan to become 3-kyu in 4 weeks! |
Good luck... And have fun studying. |
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| Author: | Chew Terr [ Fri May 28, 2010 7:57 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: My plan to become 3-kyu in 4 weeks! |
Good luck! Keep us posted. Also, what do you plan to do to reward yourself if you manage the goal? |
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| Author: | SoDesuNe [ Fri May 28, 2010 8:11 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: My plan to become 3-kyu in 4 weeks! |
Thank you both! Chew Terr wrote: Good luck! Keep us posted. Also, what do you plan to do to reward yourself if you manage the goal? Score 4 wins in the tournament would be a great reward! Nothing else, I guess. I'm already on vacation shortly after the tournament =D |
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| Author: | daal [ Fri May 28, 2010 8:33 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: My plan to become 3-kyu in 4 weeks! |
That's an awful lot to study. Be advised to keep a fire extinguisher handy in case your head starts to smoke. Also, there appears to be a discrepancy between your goal as stated in the post and the one in the post title. Good luck at either of them, but you should probably make up your mind 
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| Author: | SoDesuNe [ Fri May 28, 2010 9:31 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: My plan to become 3-kyu in 4 weeks! |
As a rule of thumb, I heard KGS is like 3 stones weaker compared to EGF. So, I hope that fits ^^ As for the Tsumegos: Only 1001 Life-and-Death Problems have a fairly difficult quality. The other ones are fairly simple for me. So, it's not that much =D But thank you! |
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| Author: | Solomon [ Fri May 28, 2010 10:05 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: My plan to become 3-kyu in 4 weeks! |
Just remember: The hardest part isn't completing this training plan, but to start it and keep going on a consistent basis. |
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| Author: | karaklis [ Fri May 28, 2010 10:26 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: My plan to become 3-kyu in 4 weeks! |
I can only warn not to overdo it. I can tell it from my experience. But of course your mileage may vary. Or as we say in Cologne "Jeder Jeck is anders" Good luck with your tournament! |
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| Author: | Jonas [ Fri May 28, 2010 10:51 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: My plan to become 3-kyu in 4 weeks! |
Hey sodesune, hope you'll be able to do your tough training program! Which go-tournament are you going to attend, the China-CUp in Berlin or the Ponnuki in Paderborn? If the unlikly case happens and you're going to visit paderborn we can play some games there to check your progress *g I think normally there isnt such a huge gap between kgs and german-egf ranks, but especially in the range from 15-5k the gap seems a little bit wider, so maybe 3 stones are correct. If you live in berlin you have to consider that most of the berlin-ranks are 1 stone weaker then the rest of germany. Good luck to achieve your goal, if you'd like I can create one or two audioreviews of your games so dont hesitate to post them in the game analyse forum. P.S.: Dont over do it this may backflip
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| Author: | GoCat [ Fri May 28, 2010 11:52 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: My plan to become 3-kyu in 4 weeks! |
Chew Terr wrote: Good luck! Keep us posted. This.
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| Author: | SoDesuNe [ Fri May 28, 2010 2:23 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: My plan to become 3-kyu in 4 weeks! |
Araban wrote: Just remember: The hardest part isn't completing this training plan, but to start it and keep going on a consistent basis. Yeah, I know. Actually that's why I came up with this plan. I just wanted to give me a roadmap of what I think is possible to handle and evaluate the result to become clear on how I'm going to study further. I hope, I get used to this amount of studying over the four weeks, so it will become natural. But then, I really have to play great at the tournament, so that the work justifies : D We will see, how it goes. I'll keep you updated ; ) karaklis Schau'n wa ma! ; D I think four weeks are suitable for this amount. If it's too much, I'll reconsider at the end. As said, I'm on vacations afterwards so I have a pause anyway to recover in the worst case ^^ Jonas Neither nor. It's a tournament in Graz, Austria =D But I'll be happy to post some good games in the Game-Analyse-Forum. Maybe Karaklis will help me here =) Thank you all! I have to go through this, just because of all your cheering : ) Day 1 out of 29: 35 Tsumegos (2 wrong) from “Graded Go Problems for Beginners Vol. 3” - check! 30 Tesujis (2 wrong) from “Get Strong at Tesuji” - check! |
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| Author: | chiwito [ Fri May 28, 2010 3:40 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: My plan to become 3-kyu in 4 weeks! |
I understand that the most efficient way to become a 3 kyu in four weeks is to start as a shodan ande sniff a lot of glue. chiwito |
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| Author: | Nikolas73 [ Fri May 28, 2010 4:13 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: My plan to become 3-kyu in 4 weeks! |
Three stones in four weeks! Wow, that sounds a lot more difficult than my goal of six stones in 8 months. As others have mentioned I would worry about trying to learn too much too fast, but if you believe you're capable then by all means go for it. Good luck! |
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| Author: | fwiffo [ Fri May 28, 2010 5:45 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: My plan to become 3-kyu in 4 weeks! |
I'd be ecstatic to reach 3 kyu in 4 weeks, and I'm already 4 kyu. 
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| Author: | Loons [ Fri May 28, 2010 6:27 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: My plan to become 3-kyu in 4 weeks! |
Us 5ish kyus striving for improvement should form a member group. Certainly a few of us around. It could be the 1 dan in 2010 group |
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| Author: | hoohoo [ Sat May 29, 2010 7:44 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: My plan to become 3-kyu in 4 weeks! |
Good luck! My goal is/was to go from 1k to 5d kgs in a year. Keep the dream alive
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| Author: | Nikolas73 [ Sat May 29, 2010 7:54 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: My plan to become 3-kyu in 4 weeks! |
Loons wrote: Us 5ish kyus striving for improvement should form a member group. Certainly a few of us around. It could be the 1 dan in 2010 group I would be interested in this; I originally planned something similar with a friend I met on KGS, but he seems to have disappeared. Perhaps we could all meet once a week or so to discuss progress, play/review, etc. |
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| Author: | SoDesuNe [ Sat May 29, 2010 8:24 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: My plan to become 3-kyu in 4 weeks! |
Thanks for all your responses! The goal seems difficult, I can understand that, but there's this little tiny voice inside me, who mutters: "You are at least 5k, maybe better, all what you lack is concentration and calmness!" Well, and maybe a general lack of direction and big points/urgent points-knowledge (see my game against Karaklis) ^^ But well, you might fall, if you choose to walk. Common knowledge, it hurts a lot more, when you are running but you might be faster at the finish, too =) So... Day 2 out of 29: 33 Tsumegos (0 wrong) from “Graded Go Problems for Beginners Vol. 3” - check! 29 Tesujis (3 wrong) from “Get Strong at Tesuji” - check! post scriptum: Nikolas73 I'm in =) |
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| Author: | SoDesuNe [ Sun May 30, 2010 9:55 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: My plan to become 3-kyu in 4 weeks! |
Day 3 out of 29: 35 Tsumegos (4 wrong) from “Graded Go Problems for Beginners Vol. 3” - check! 29 Tesujis (3 wrong - although I knew the answer of one problem but I couldn't verify it against certain counter-moves) from “Get Strong at Tesuji” - check! Played a game today, too, and I'm quite happy with it. See the Game-Analyse-Subforum for it. |
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| Author: | karaklis [ Sun May 30, 2010 11:46 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: My plan to become 3-kyu in 4 weeks! |
1 dan until July 2012 would suffice for me. 
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