well, here's what it looks like when I tried to save...there is no save....and I can't visit in archive or load in anything *cry*

Hi TheCatLver,

You're using the current browser version. To save, you have to use the stand-alone, installed version.

(Hopefully, in the future, the new browser version will support save.)

It says I have security blocking the download, still figuring out how to un-block it.

All of your games are online here:

http://www.gokgs.com/gameArchives.jsp?user=thecatlver

just click the "yes" under "viewable?".

Or alternatively you can right click on the yes, and then click "copy link location", and you'll get a url like this:

http://files.gokgs.com/games/2014/6/1/B ... atlver.sgf

If you then put sgf tags around it you'll get:

Yessss!!!!!I did it!

well, at least with KGS, not sure about IGS though....hmmmm, and that's the only "portable" one.

THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YO

In that game, there are really few stones on the third line and below, by move 50, only 2 stones for white and one for black...

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Converting the book Shape UP! by Charles Matthews/Seong-June Kim
to the gobook format. last updated april 2015 - Index of shapes, p.211 / 216

(June 5th, 2014)

So after a few days, I finally figured out about 89% of how KGS work. Which is neat. I've also realized that it's really hard to get a game since no one care about a 23k(ranked, yay, but weak, mehh). Even that stupid 20k weakbot doesn't want to play me, *haiz*

So I guess it' back to the book for me for now, I'll surface again when I climb into what is seemingly minimum requirement to play human wall of "teens kyu" (aka 19k+) and such.

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I played several games since the last time I posted, all bots. Since, as mentioned aboved, no dignify human would ever bother with 20's ranked low-life. And now even the bots don't want to play me......

Wow, I'm hitting a slump already and I haven't even play for that long yet.

Depending on the rank range it can take quite some time to find games, maybe widening that a bit will help you getting opponents through automatch a lot faster.

Why not forget about ratings right now and just say that you are a beginner and ask if someone will play you a teaching game? (Which would be unrated, OC.) It should not be too hard to get takers. After all, everybody was a beginner at one time.

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The Adkins Principle:
At some point, doesn't thinking have to go on?
— Winona Adkins

Visualize whirled peas.

Everything with love. Stay safe.

My KGS rank is in the low 20's. I've been able to get games through automatch. Sometimes it takes a few minutes.

MY FIRST (technically) WON GAME (I think)

It is very hard to to find anyone on KGS that is around the same rank as me (early 20's). So when I found one, I was pretty excited. However, the player is what I have now learn, an "escaper".

Here's my "point of view" on this whole thing.
- When he (I assume given the name) said that he'd been playing for a while, I was like, whoah.
- But then he start making some "unorthodox" move and I was like, hoah.
- But then near the mid-game and I feel like I was (finally) the one who seems stronger and I was like, yo!
- And then the game ended and we got to counting and removing dead stones and he tried to mark all my living stone as dead and I was like, nuh-uh no-no.
- So I refuse to end unless it was count correctly, but the he just blink out and I was like,







If you could bother enough to look at a weak game like mine, please, by all mean. I'm sure you'll enjoy a good laugh out of this.

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On other news and update on my progress.

I lost about 10 games
Should have won 1

I'm in VN now. So next monday I'll be swinging by a go club and check it out. I know for sure that I'll be the weakest but that's expected.

My current struggle right now is to choose between a kaya board or iPad(leaning toward this one).

I'm steadily reading and absorbing more books, one chapter at a time for proper digestion.

I can say I'm a solid-ish 23k now, trudging toward the "teens-kyu" steadily. I'm hoping to reach 18-15kyu by the end of summer (cue hyperventilation since I have a severe fear against leaving VN and summer behind and school and stuff and *brreeeeaaaaattttthhhhhh*)

Well, that's about it. Sorry for lacking in eloquentness, I never possesses any in the first place but it has been particularly worse now that I'm juggling two languages at the same time.

What a game !

Just a quick warning, your move 216 at A8 is self atari, black can now kill your group with C8.

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Converting the book Shape UP! by Charles Matthews/Seong-June Kim
to the gobook format. last updated april 2015 - Index of shapes, p.211 / 216

Indeed, my heart stop a beat when I realized that. Fortunately, my opponent didn't. Wheew

Did you realize that during the game ? seems risky to me not to fix that weakness ...

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Converting the book Shape UP! by Charles Matthews/Seong-June Kim
to the gobook format. last updated april 2015 - Index of shapes, p.211 / 216

Oh hush; it's only 14 points.

e: I just noticed e10.

Summer slump

I attended a small go club in VN yesterday after reading CarlosViet post in Introduction. And for some weird reason, after that two hour session, I have a strange feeling that my playing...decline. I went to the club not knowing anybody except for the direction there. Apparently, I went when it's a studying night, so all of the player are 9kyu+. Intimidating is one among the many words to describe that night. The club head were a really nice dude who played 2 "games'with me, both on 13x13 board. Then I "played" 2 more dude. There was only one other girls, but she's a 2K, so she was busy teaching the rest of the guys there. I got a half of the Level Up series( book 1-5 plus review 1) for the equivalent of 5 usd, granted, they're all copies, but damn good one. If I had bought even one book through YMI, it would've been $13 per book, so I'm really happy with that.

But back to the main point.

My playing somehow decline, as in I felt like my moves were soo...lifeless. I lost to a 24kyus, losing stones. NOT OK So unless that 24kyus is actually a 10kyu+ that have just joines KGS, I really don't have a good reason to lose other than the half-asses one that I somehow just, suck... It's a strange phenomena. I should've improved instead of decline post club-attending.

Haiz...

Maybe it is not that your play is declining, but that your judgement is getting better.

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The Adkins Principle:
At some point, doesn't thinking have to go on?
— Winona Adkins

Visualize whirled peas.

Everything with love. Stay safe.

Nah, if one were to be able to make better judgement. It's expected that they should be able to make better moves....

Would it were so!

_________________
The Adkins Principle:
At some point, doesn't thinking have to go on?
— Winona Adkins

Visualize whirled peas.

Everything with love. Stay safe.