Reinventing the wheel. Just another average go journal.

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Newest addition to my go books collection: Fujisawa Shuko's The only move part I and II. So now in addition to these two books I need to go through:
Catching Scent of Victory, O Rissei.
Breakthrough Attacking Power Yamashita-Style, Keigo Yamashita.
The Way of Creating a Thick and Strong Game, Hane Naoki.
This is Go the Natural Way, Takemiya Masaki.
Patterns so Sanrensei, Maikeru Redomondo .
Invincible, John Power (yes, I haven't finished it yet.).
Tesuji and Anti-Suji of go, Sakata Eio.
Tesuji, James Davies (how did I get to my level whithout reading this book?).
A Way of playing for the 21 Century, Go Seigen.
Positional Judgment, Cho Chikun.
Vital Points and skillful Finesse of Sabaki, Yoda Norimoto.
Takao's Astute Use of Brute Force, Takao Shinji.
Oh, and two books by John Fairbairn about Go Seigen's jubango, one with Kitani Minoru (Kamakura) and one with Takagawa Kaku (Final Summit).

I already started all of them, and finished none. 16 books to choose from... Maybe finishing one book in a month would be a good idea (excluding Invincible of course) and I shouldn't buy any new books from now on. Ok, maybe just one, Games and commentaries of Honinbo Shuei by John Fairbairn... And maybe this one about games of Lee Sedol, and the one about...
My god, this is madness.

In the meantime another jubango game played with 1hour time for each player, 1 minute byo. It's one of my best games I played lately I think. A lot of mistakes in the endgame because of byo, but I survived.

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• Tesuji and Anti-Suji of go, Sakata Eio. (problem 61/61) FINISHED

Looks like one book in a week is going to be an achievable thing for most of these books (except "Invincible" and Go Seigen's jubangos of course). I just need to approach them more methodically, not open-and-forget-next-day as I've been doing previously.

Will it improve my game in any significant way?

This Sakata Eio's book was nice but it is relatively small collection of problems, easy to go through and easy to grasp.
I'm more accustomed to modern era of mobile go apps where there are thousands of tsumego and doing a 50-100 in one session is just a norm. But a narration in this book has some educational value and is giving you a time needed to digest presented problem and method behind it - so even if there are not hundreds of problems the book can be helpful.

Next:
• The only move part I: Joseki/Fuseki, Fujisawa Shuko.

[lobotommy]

No time for playing. I have only 30 minutes in the morning while going to work by train and 30 minutes at the evening when coming back. Thank god for SmartGo Books.
Slow progress in Fujisawa Shuko's "The only move part I". Currently I'm on problem 20 (out of 80). It's not a book designed for speed reading. You need to focus on every problem (pro game snapshot), find out why would you play in certain way, then digest what Fujisawa said about presented board situation.
It's a heartwarming book - there are so many mistakes in pro games...

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Started watching BadukMovies again. Great stuff. This time it will be easier for me to watch them all - being forced to sit 35 minutes in train twice a day is unexpectedly helpful in completing such task.

Shuko's "The only move" still not finished (24 of 80)

No tsumego, no pro games, no playing. Not good.