Those damn improvement roadblocks, and free teaching

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Those damn improvement roadblocks, and free teaching

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I love Go. I love L19. It's a New Year, and a time for happiness and looking forward to all sorts of things, Go improvement being one of them.

I've read a few recent posts by people being dissatisfied about their improvement, and so I've decided to offer a free teaching game + review (90 minutes or so) to the most frustrated sounding person of 5k or weaker. Go shouldn't be dissatisfying regardless, but I promise this once I'll try and keep my philosophical Go ranting to a minimum, and the educational Go value to a maximum :P
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If any dans want to make a similar offer to a 4k, I'd be interested...
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kirkmc wrote:If any dans want to make a similar offer to a 4k, I'd be interested...



Ill play teaching game with you for free

I am 4d at wbaduk. I dont play KGS. I have 2k rating in Europe because of lack of strong tournaments, eh...
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LovroKlc wrote:
kirkmc wrote:If any dans want to make a similar offer to a 4k, I'd be interested...



Ill play teaching game with you for free

I am 4d at wbaduk. I dont play KGS. I have 2k rating in Europe because of lack of strong tournaments, eh...


I don't know how to use Wbaduk. I have a feeling it's Windows only...
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I just failed to achieve my goal of SDK by new years by a full 2 stones... that was pretty frustrating.
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kirkmc wrote:
LovroKlc wrote:
kirkmc wrote:If any dans want to make a similar offer to a 4k, I'd be interested...



Ill play teaching game with you for free

I am 4d at wbaduk. I dont play KGS. I have 2k rating in Europe because of lack of strong tournaments, eh...


I don't know how to use Wbaduk. I have a feeling it's Windows only...



I have a KGS account :D
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:clap: I think one good turn deserves another, so I hereby offer a teaching game to topazg, if he wants it :)
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Re: Those damn improvement roadblocks, and free teaching

Post by Shaddy »

Not to hijack topaz's thread, but I'd also be glad to play a game or two with review with anyone who's interested. I'm probably not as good a teacher as he is though.
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HermanHiddema wrote::clap: I think one good turn deserves another, so I hereby offer a teaching game to topazg, if he wants it :)


That's positively delightful of you. I'll wait until I get back from holiday on Tue, get settled back in, and contact you for one - you're even close to me in timezones :)
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Re: Those damn improvement roadblocks, and free teaching

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Free teaching games galore? I like! I'm pretty dissatisfied with my go improvement. In fact, there has been little to none in the past year. (I blame video games in general and starcraft 2 in particular.) I would love to play a teaching game with someone quite a bit stronger than I am. And since this seems to be the spirit of this thread, and just because it is good practice, I will gladly play a teaching game with someone a couple of stones weaker than I am. And why wait? I am available tomorrow. Thanks for the generous offer, topazg (and other players offering their services here).
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Hushfield wrote:Free teaching games galore? I like! I'm pretty dissatisfied with my go improvement. In fact, there has been little to none in the past year. (I blame video games in general and starcraft 2 in particular.) I would love to play a teaching game with someone quite a bit stronger than I am. And since this seems to be the spirit of this thread, and just because it is good practice, I will gladly play a teaching game with someone a couple of stones weaker than I am. And why wait? I am available tomorrow. Thanks for the generous offer, topazg (and other players offering their services here).


Thats very kind, I would be up for a teaching game. If thats cool with you then what time tomorrow is good? I am free whenever but I probably wont be awake before 10am GMT depending on your timezone that will most likely be easy to work around.

Also, not wanting to break the chain although I am probably one of the smallest fish in this particular pond I am happy to do a teaching game with any complete newbs (20k or less I guess).
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I'm willing to give a teaching game* to anyone willing to learn.





*Warning: I have no teaching experience
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I will take a lesson from somebody that thinks they can teach me.

I will give a lesson to somebody that thinks they can learn from me.

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topazg wrote:...Go shouldn't be dissatisfying regardless, but I promise this once I'll try and keep my philosophical Go ranting to a minimum...


Perhaps you can make a new thread to rant about such philosophical matters... :)
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Post by karaklis »

Thanks for all these offers. If someone around 6k (+-3 stones) takes a lesson, I'd like to attend. Plz let me know.
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