Not being a well-orgnized person, I think it would be useless to write : 20 tsumegoes per day, 5 games per week. But i want to start a journal first and see what I can do then.
I am currently 5kyu, I play in ASR league. Today is friday, maybe i should start with a book.
Kokomi's Study Journal
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Re: Study Journal
Chaos style! I like it. Good luck!
(Perhaps you should add your name to the title, so we can spot whose study journal it is instantly.)
(Perhaps you should add your name to the title, so we can spot whose study journal it is instantly.)
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Re: Study Journal
Hushfield wrote:Chaos style! I like it. Good luck!
(Perhaps you should add your name to the title, so we can spot whose study journal it is instantly.)
Yeah, thanks for the advice, I've changed it. I think i'll come every morning to post what I did the day before, and after a while, I should see what I need to do more or do less.
The book I'm reading now is The Path to 5 kyu by Otake Hideo 9P. I have always a love towards Japanese Go books. The reason why to 5kyu not to 1kyu (another book) is that I could soon write 'done' here and give myself some confidence.
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Re: Kokomi's Study Journal
Friday
It was not a very good start. As perdicted, no tsumego, 1 tesuji today. But the good thing is before i went to bed i read some pages. The reason I did it was that I suddenly realised that I had nothing to write in the Journal if I did not read any pages. I'm still in chapter 1. There are three chapters, Tesuji, Joseki and Fuseki.
Tsumego 0
Tesuji 1
Books The path to 5kyu -Chapter 1. Tesuji
Games 0
Pro game study 0
Give an example of what i learnt from the book today.
It is interesting the correct move is black a, white b, black c. I used to think black a welcomes white d, so it's dangerous to play so.
Thanks!
It was not a very good start. As perdicted, no tsumego, 1 tesuji today. But the good thing is before i went to bed i read some pages. The reason I did it was that I suddenly realised that I had nothing to write in the Journal if I did not read any pages. I'm still in chapter 1. There are three chapters, Tesuji, Joseki and Fuseki.
Tsumego 0
Tesuji 1
Books The path to 5kyu -Chapter 1. Tesuji
Games 0
Pro game study 0
Give an example of what i learnt from the book today.
It is interesting the correct move is black a, white b, black c. I used to think black a welcomes white d, so it's dangerous to play so.
Jonas wrote:Good luck on your journey
Feel free to post some games for reviewing :3
Thanks!
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Re: Study Journal
The book I'm reading now is The Path to 5 kyu by Otake Hideo 9P. I have always a love towards Japanese Go books. The reason why to 5kyu not to 1kyu (another book) is that I could soon write 'done' here and give myself some confidence.
My question is about the book you mention here. Is it an (in) japanese book? I found nowhere any sign of any book that matches.
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tsitua wrote:The book I'm reading now is The Path to 5 kyu by Otake Hideo 9P. I have always a love towards Japanese Go books. The reason why to 5kyu not to 1kyu (another book) is that I could soon write 'done' here and give myself some confidence.
My question is about the book you mention here. Is it an (in) japanese book? I found nowhere any sign of any book that matches.
Mine's in chinese. I don't know the original name of the book, and i did not find a match in amazon.co.jp neither. It was transalted in 1986, quite old one. It's a set of three books, written by three different Japanese pros for beginner.
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Re: Kokomi's Study Journal
The Chinese name should be 围棋初级指导(二) 通向五级的捷径. Published by 北京科学技术出版社
One of the miscellaneous Chinese go books I don't have. It doesn't cost much on the Chinese used book market. But for me to buy it, I'd have to pay too much in associated costs such as foreign exchange, bank charges, shipping, etc.
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Re: Kokomi's Study Journal
kokomi wrote:Give an example of what i learnt from the book today.
It is interesting the correct move is black a, white b, black c. I used to think black a welcomes white d, so it's dangerous to play so.
I always thought so, too, but:
You are leaving cutting points behind, but as long as you read them out, White's group is in mortal danger. Furthermore White can't push and cut through immediately because he will get short of liberties and then C5 might become a Snapback.
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Re: Kokomi's Study Journal
SoDesuNe wrote:I always thought so, too, but:
You are leaving cutting points behind, but as long as you read them out, White's group is in mortal danger. Furthermore White can't push and cut through immediately because he will get short of liberties and then C5 might become a Snapback.
I wasn't sure where should black 3 respond. Studied with a shodan on KTL room yesterday, and he showed this varation. I don't know how to post 10 and 11, it always splits into 1 & 10 and 1 & 1, so using hexadecimal, a and b instead.
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Re: Kokomi's Study Journal
Saturday
A busy day. Did not read many pages. I should really start either my Tesuji book or Tsumego book.
I did give many teaching games yesterday. It is frustrating to teach total beginners, who just want to know 'what is this' for fun and never come back later. Hikaru no Go may be their better teacher than I am. I'm always happy to teach those who at least are willing to improve, not those who want to know it for fun. Not any more.
Tsumego 0
Tesuji 0
Books The path to 5kyu -Chapter 2. Joseki
Games many teaching games to weakers
Pro game study 0
A busy day. Did not read many pages. I should really start either my Tesuji book or Tsumego book.
I did give many teaching games yesterday. It is frustrating to teach total beginners, who just want to know 'what is this' for fun and never come back later. Hikaru no Go may be their better teacher than I am. I'm always happy to teach those who at least are willing to improve, not those who want to know it for fun. Not any more.
Tsumego 0
Tesuji 0
Books The path to 5kyu -Chapter 2. Joseki
Games many teaching games to weakers
Pro game study 0
长考出臭棋.
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Wednesday
Have not updated last two days, because only spent some time to read the book, but not played any game. I have finished the book, will write a review later. Will play a tournament game with LiKao this friday, hopefully then I can have a serious game. I think about a little goal for this month: to play as many ASR League game as possible.
围棋初级指导(二) 通向五级的捷径- The Path to 5kyu
The book contains three parts: 1. Tesuji 2. Joseki 3. Fuseki. It gives only a general idea, rather than into details. The Tesuji part introduced some useful tesujis and explains quite clearly. The Joseki part, I'd rather say isn't that good. Often it just shows a joseki without explaination, and ask the reader to memorise it, which i find isn't that useful. And some of them, even only given the first 5 or 6 moves, and then 'the reader could refer to other books for details'. I'd advice to skip this part. The Fuseki part, on the contrary, is quite nice. It gives 5 or 6 principales of what should be done during the opening, and each principale is presented with an example.
This book is suitable for a 5kyu player using as a review book, rather than someone who wants to be a 5kyu.
The book i'll read next is Yi Chang-ho Endgame Techniques
http://tchan001.wordpress.com/2010/06/1 ... echniques/
According to other people's review. The first part of the book wasn't written by Lee, but later he points out how to do score estimate in the mid game, which is quite unique among other books.
Tsumego 0
Tesuji 0
Books The path to 5kyu
Games 0
Pro game study 0
Have not updated last two days, because only spent some time to read the book, but not played any game. I have finished the book, will write a review later. Will play a tournament game with LiKao this friday, hopefully then I can have a serious game. I think about a little goal for this month: to play as many ASR League game as possible.
围棋初级指导(二) 通向五级的捷径- The Path to 5kyu
The book contains three parts: 1. Tesuji 2. Joseki 3. Fuseki. It gives only a general idea, rather than into details. The Tesuji part introduced some useful tesujis and explains quite clearly. The Joseki part, I'd rather say isn't that good. Often it just shows a joseki without explaination, and ask the reader to memorise it, which i find isn't that useful. And some of them, even only given the first 5 or 6 moves, and then 'the reader could refer to other books for details'. I'd advice to skip this part. The Fuseki part, on the contrary, is quite nice. It gives 5 or 6 principales of what should be done during the opening, and each principale is presented with an example.
This book is suitable for a 5kyu player using as a review book, rather than someone who wants to be a 5kyu.
The book i'll read next is Yi Chang-ho Endgame Techniques
http://tchan001.wordpress.com/2010/06/1 ... echniques/
According to other people's review. The first part of the book wasn't written by Lee, but later he points out how to do score estimate in the mid game, which is quite unique among other books.
Tsumego 0
Tesuji 0
Books The path to 5kyu
Games 0
Pro game study 0
长考出臭棋.
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Re: Kokomi's Study Journal
In cases where the cut at a does not affect the life and death of the corner group, the usual idea is to just sacrifice the
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unkx80 wrote:
In cases where the cut at a does not affect the life and death of the corner group, the usual idea is to just sacrifice the
Thanks unkx80! This looks much better
Thursday
Still no tsumego, no tesuji today. I think I need to set up a little plan for it. Otherwise I'll never do it.
And also it's funny I put Pro game study on my list, as I never know how to study pro game. Maybe I should delete this.
Good thing is that I played a game, with MagicMagor. He gave me 2 stones, and I think I made some mistake in the opening, but still keep the advantage until end of mid game. I was trying to play thick, as I recieved two stones. But still, there's two weakness that later brought me trouble. MagicMago used the weakness and succesfully snaked in my territory. But he was too greedy and lost the group, otherwise I think he's good.
Have two questionable moves in the game, if anyone could help
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Books Yi Chang-ho Endgame Techniques
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Question one is the black triangle stone, is this move too passive? As white still has 3.3 in the corner (this is my second question), is it better for black to play S16 and chase white out? 'Coz this black looks very over concentrated in this corner, and still leave aji.
The second question is about the same corner, when white come to 3.3, from 2 to 8, white's alreay alive. Does black has better way to attack?
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Re: Kokomi's Study Journal
kokomi wrote:Question one is the black triangle stone: is this move too passive? As white still has 3-3 in the corner (this is my second question), is it better for Black to play S16 and chase white out? This black looks very overconcentrated in this corner, and still leaves aji.
This move is not passive at all. It not only captures the two stones, it also connects the two black groups. Black becomes very strong because of that. Just imagine the situation when White plays there: the black heavy group would be split off and weak.
Do not worry about overconcentration too much. First come strength and weakness, which are closely related to connecting and cutting.
A good system naturally covers all corner cases without further effort.