Do you play less since you started posting on l19/godisc ?

[rubin427]

After some reflection, I think my previous answer just deflected the question. So I'll answer again. Yes, I play less frequently after having joined Godiscussions.com and later Lifein19x19.

Verbose:

Now that GD has gone down, it is actually very difficult to get accurate information as to when a person joined the site. Jan 6th, 2009 was the earliest record I could find of me being active on GD. so I use that date.

The following graph charts my rank and my level of effort being put into Go over time.



Now, I've been doing other go related things all the while, such as attending or running a local club (weekly), attending the US Go Congress in 2009 and 2010. But still, I think graph is at least personally interesting.

I've been complaining that I've been stuck at a the same rank for what feels like years. In all honesty, it now seems that this is also the same duration that I haven't been putting much effort into the game at all.

I doubt if either GD or L19 are the cause of my decreased efforts. But the timing sure is... suspicious.

Recently, I have been making an effort to play more game (with shorter time limits), and I am doing daily Tsumego. So far the benefit of that seems to be solidifying my rank at 6k. That's positive, but It's getting embarrassing to admit the number of players I used to play even that could now spot me four stones or more.

[sixko]

Posting/reading here at L19 has nothing to do with how much I do or don't play go. Another game played on 64 squares has a fair amount to do with it though. But it was probably in large measure thanks to that game that I knew pretty much on first sight that I would be playing go for the rest of my life.