A beginner's journal of little interest

[Boidhre]

Mood much, much improved but in a steady non-manic way.

In something that people might in general find interesting: Self-compassion is key to good mental health: http://www.scientificamerican.com/artic ... tal-health (from a go perspective, the ability to not beat yourself up during losing streaks would be relevant)


Tsumego solving continues unabated. 200 problems into the set of 1000 now with a 94% success rate which is lower than I'd like but acceptable for a second run through I think.

[tomukaze]

That's great you are in a better mood and doing well.
94% is quite good! Sure 1% is only a trivial amount away anyway, almost an ϵ difference.

[Boidhre]

That's great you are in a better mood and doing well.
94% is quite good! Sure 1% is only a trivial amount away anyway, almost an ϵ difference.

Eh, I'm being a perfectionist about it. I want 95% and that's that.

[tomukaze]

What happens if you get 96%?

[Boidhre]

What happens if you get 96%?

I hadn't thought of that...

[Bill Spight]

Mood much, much improved but in a steady non-manic way.

In something that people might in general find interesting: Self-compassion is key to good mental health: http://www.scientificamerican.com/artic ... tal-health (from a go perspective, the ability to not beat yourself up during losing streaks would be relevant)


Tsumego solving continues unabated. 200 problems into the set of 1000 now with a 94% success rate which is lower than I'd like but acceptable for a second run through I think.

Hmmm. Sounds like time to do some harder problems. Shoot for 50%!

[Boidhre]

Mood much, much improved but in a steady non-manic way.

In something that people might in general find interesting: Self-compassion is key to good mental health: http://www.scientificamerican.com/artic ... tal-health (from a go perspective, the ability to not beat yourself up during losing streaks would be relevant)


Tsumego solving continues unabated. 200 problems into the set of 1000 now with a 94% success rate which is lower than I'd like but acceptable for a second run through I think.

Hmmm. Sounds like time to do some harder problems. Shoot for 50%!

The quest for the perfect problem set never ends does it?

[Boidhre]

Tom gave me a beating on two stones:



I think I played far, far too passively throughout the game. I left him keep sente far too long. was terrible as was . I was very much not on form tonight. We didn't get to finish the game, we had to get the club up and running and give teaching games to the new people but SmartGo has him ahead by around 15.

[Bill Spight]

Some comments.



Edit: Added variations to , var. 5, showing perhaps stiffer resistance by White.

[Boidhre]

Thank you Bill for the detailed comments.

[tomukaze]

Thanks Boidhre as always for putting up the game! And Bill as always thanks for your detailed comments.
Looking at the game now it seems that white leaves too many weaknesses behind. I think when black gets abit stronger he will start to trash me!

[Bill Spight]

Edited latest commentary.

[Boidhre]

Played a friend on OGS. We agreed afterwards that 2 stones was too much. (Mostly posted for tomukaze as we discussed the game briefly yesterday)



My opponent is 9k KGS. 2 stones was due to OGS's ranking system and me having let all my games time out whilst depressed recently.

[Bill Spight]

White lost.



Main focus: Play on the frontier of frameworks. Make multi-purpose plays.

[Boidhre]

Thank you Bill.

Edit: Actually "White lost" sums up how I've been playing lately very well.