Any Go new year resolutions for 2020?

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Any Go new year resolutions for 2020?

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I'm going to be 5D on Fox by the end of 2020.
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I'll drink less beer than in 2019. It's go-related, because I mostly drink while playing go.
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Play more, and study more tsuemego.
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Here are last year's resolutions:

viewtopic.php?f=10&t=16324

One year ago I said
So my goal for 2019 is more modest: gain at least 1 stone.
This was a success, I gained about 2 stones in every rating system, so my goal for 2020 is again to improve by 1 stone or more. The theme will be: reading.
  • Practicing problems: so far I have practiced a lot of life and death problems, but the improvement rate is becoming very slow, so I plan to spend more time on tesuji: currently working on "graded go problems for dan players vol. 2". Even though the title says "for dan players", it looks like mid-SDK players who have finished Davis' book can take profit from it.
  • Playing games: reading may be difficult due to time pressure, but at least: do not play without reading several moves deep and without checking alternative moves; try to use almost all the byo-yomi period.
  • Watching pro or high-dan games: try to read as deep as possible. It doesn't matter if the variations are correct or not, the point is to train "reading muscles". Accuracy will hopefully come later.
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1. Play more games.
2. Learn how to accept that I will make stupid mistakes and stop getting so mad at myself when I do.

Same as last year :scratch:
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Post by SoDesuNe »

1. Organise the local annual go tournament.
2. Organise a go-booth or something similiar at a Japan/manga/anime-related fair.
3. Don't drop below 3-kyu EGF.
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-replay the 100 moves of 300 pro games
-solve a gross 2000+ tusmego problems (net 500 problems * 4 repeats)
-master 6 books
-acquire a better sense of weak stones/strong stones
-from 3k to 2k in KGS
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To not play in the British championship unless I have improved to have a realistic prospect of doing better than recent years.
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Uberdude: if I remember correctly, you said you were ill during match 2 and were out of practice. So maybe you don't need to improve in order to win but just to warm-up before, ideally with a tournament with similar time settings. If it's impractical to play a tournament, perhaps some people with similar level would be willing to play a few matches on the internet with the same time settings.
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