Hi,
In march I'll have five free days with about 4 hours of time for go (daily) if I choose. The catch: I won't have internet access. So, what are my options for studying and enojying the game? Reviewing commented pro games? Tsumego? ...?
I'm open for any ideas,
Thanks,
mic
Go and spare time without net access
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Re: Go and spare time without net access
mic wrote:Hi,
In march I'll have five free days with about 4 hours of time for go (daily) if I choose. The catch: I won't have internet access. So, what are my options for studying and enojying the game? Reviewing commented pro games? Tsumego? ...?
I'm open for any ideas,
Thanks,
mic
Yes to both. Do you have any go books?
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Re: Go and spare time without net access
emeraldemon wrote:Yes to both. Do you have any go books?
I think I do, e.g. Invincible and Graded Go Problems (I - IV), Lessons in the fundamentals, etc. Any books you are especially fond of?
Cheers,
mic
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Re: Go and spare time without net access
You could download a copy of goproblems.com (needs pro-status if I'm not mistaken) to still follow your daily Tsumego routine.
You could take your Tsumego/Tesuji books of choice and make a schedule how long you plan to sit down and solve them - per session per day.
You could go over your favourite (commented) professional games and take your time counting and following Ten's guide to studying professional games.
You could study Joseki with a good Joseki dictionary.
You could read "The First Kyu" (very good!) or any other Go-related fictional book (e.g. Kawabata's Master of Go [I haven't read it, yet]) to nurture your Go interest.
You could take your time and browse through GoGoD to finally read all the amazing articles and tidbits.
You could download your favourite free Go videos from countsheep (http://www.gocommentary.com/) and watch them inbetween Tsumego/Tesuji sessions.
You could go over you opening dictionary of choice and play out the opening patterns you are interested in.
You could finally devote yourself to your strategy book of choice you never read through in an adequate pace before since there was always something more urgent somewhere on the internet.
...but it could've been just me =)
You could take your Tsumego/Tesuji books of choice and make a schedule how long you plan to sit down and solve them - per session per day.
You could go over your favourite (commented) professional games and take your time counting and following Ten's guide to studying professional games.
You could study Joseki with a good Joseki dictionary.
You could read "The First Kyu" (very good!) or any other Go-related fictional book (e.g. Kawabata's Master of Go [I haven't read it, yet]) to nurture your Go interest.
You could take your time and browse through GoGoD to finally read all the amazing articles and tidbits.
You could download your favourite free Go videos from countsheep (http://www.gocommentary.com/) and watch them inbetween Tsumego/Tesuji sessions.
You could go over you opening dictionary of choice and play out the opening patterns you are interested in.
You could finally devote yourself to your strategy book of choice you never read through in an adequate pace before since there was always something more urgent somewhere on the internet.
...but it could've been just me =)
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Re: Go and spare time without net access
I'm reading currently "get strong at Life & Death" and I really like the structure of the book together with the progressive aspect of the problems.
It seems today that some of those "so hard to read" shortage of liberty problems started to click.
That being said, it's fine for 30-60mn a day but not for 4 hours a day.
I like very much the idea of SoDesuNe to take some time to read something about go rather than pure study.
I think you should vary activities not to get bored.
Maybe, as a rule of thumb, If I were in your position, I would go for a combination of problem book + theory book... Maybe Get Strong at Life & Death and Attack & Defense would do the trick for me.
In complement, I could read some literature featuring go or somehow at least vaguely related. Presently, I would read "PopCo".
Other candidates for this part depending on your interest: Shibumi / Satori (spy), The Master of Go (history), The Hedgehog (drama), The glass bead game (philosophy), the girl who played go (history / romance).
Obviously, none of those books will make your stronger but they may still entertain you.
It seems today that some of those "so hard to read" shortage of liberty problems started to click.
That being said, it's fine for 30-60mn a day but not for 4 hours a day.
I like very much the idea of SoDesuNe to take some time to read something about go rather than pure study.
I think you should vary activities not to get bored.
Maybe, as a rule of thumb, If I were in your position, I would go for a combination of problem book + theory book... Maybe Get Strong at Life & Death and Attack & Defense would do the trick for me.
In complement, I could read some literature featuring go or somehow at least vaguely related. Presently, I would read "PopCo".
Other candidates for this part depending on your interest: Shibumi / Satori (spy), The Master of Go (history), The Hedgehog (drama), The glass bead game (philosophy), the girl who played go (history / romance).
Obviously, none of those books will make your stronger but they may still entertain you.