It's been a while since I last kept a study journal. Although I kept studying go, the 110% effort "dan-or-die" attitude that came with maintaining one has put me off from doing so again while having only minimal time to spend on go. Until now that is. Summer is upon us, and one of the benefits of being a teacher is having two glorious months to spend as I see fit. What better way than to make up for lost time with the stones? In a few days' time I'm leaving for China, where I will be studying under the tutelage of Yan An 7p in his go school, through the following program: http://internetgoschool.com/goinchina.vhtml.
Some excerpts:
Guo Juan's Internet Go School wrote:Since 2006, we have been sending Western students to study Go in a Go school in China. All of our students have had fantastic experiences with the great teacher Yan An 7p and the students from his Go school.
The study schedule is intensive, studying Go six days each week, so we only accept students who are really eager to work hard and improve their game through tough training.
Some of you may have seen my tea-loving avatar pop up in other threads here and there, but most of you probably don't know who I am. I'm a Belgian single digit kyu player, currently ranked at EGF 7k, KGS 2k, IGS 6k, Tygem 3k, WBaduk 9k. Those ranks are really just numbers. In China, I'll just be the weak foreigner with the freakish amount of hair.Guo Juan's Internet Go School wrote:Study Go at least 8 hours a day, 6 days a week.
Teacher Yan An 7dan pro will give you exercises and play teaching games, and review all of the games you play against the other students in the Go school.
Play at the Go school with other young Chinese students (they are really strong!).
Play teaching games with other teachers from the Go school.
I plan to update this thread as much as possible, writing about the general experience, the contents of the lectures, sharing some games reviewed by the pro teachers at the school and perhaps share a daily go problem from the exercises at the school. If anyone has any requests or things they would like to know, feel free to ask and I'll try my best to help out.
My apologies to the admins for starting a second study journal, but I do feel this one is significantly different from my previous one. If it's not allowed to have two study journals, feel free to delete the old one.
I'm very much looking forward to the experience, and hope to be able to share it with all of you.
Hush
I wish I was younger and I can do that !
seems to work. 'a' and 'b' are Miai for either Ko or shortage of liberties. Defending at 
also leads to a Ko after Black 'b' (when White decides to defend at 'a' afterwards).
with the threat to capture all of White's stones above, too.
. But that needs an appropriate handicap (9 stones?) and rest.
