Life In 19x19

I really enjoy reading your updates 1986, it's inspiring to see your enthusiasm and love of the game. Good luck with your new 'Zen' approach to winning and losing... I aspire to take the same attitude to my games (and life) but it's tough to actually put into practice in the heat of the moment.

wbaduk 21 kyu 5400 /KGS 9 kyu
problem #157 46 right first try

the update:
my new approach to go is working out a lot better for me i play better
when i don't look at rank, time or score i just play
all i look at now is the board;
so i am missing comments
but my go is better becuase of it

my current go habits are
tsumego & actual games & watching good players play &
im also following Magic Wand's malkovich games,its great

i play alot more on my phone with on cyberoro & IGS
i'm currently 17 kyu IGS & 20 Kyu cyberoro
also im doing go problems on my phone & watching pro games
im just on my phone so much because of school
but i still get my go in

i was watching some professionals play on cyberoro blitz
it was funny because they used almost all their 30 seconds
each move but when you watch a 7 Dan play blitz the pace of the game is much faster
that taught me to slow down

realbaduk.com has a good mobile site
so i can read little articles n stuff on my phone
it has some good stuff on counting i have been reading up on
check it out if your always on your phone like me

i haven't got to my lectures or the test room on wbaduk.com
in a minute i will get back to it soon though
i have been playing alot of go, its too much fun

also i have been on gocommentary.com
great videos to watch & great explanations
the Longshi game is my favorite
one day soon i will get GOGOD and go through more
of his games i like his style
"the best defense is a good offense"
its amazing to see the ancient games
because they look so modern

i want to learn more about Longshi but i cant find anything online...

anyways gotta get ready for the day, see ya

i haven't posted any games in a minute

this was yesterday wbaduk

after talking to my opponent i found out he was EGF 13 kyu
he said i was probably like 15 kyu EGF

i was going to ask why he was two stones stronger than me but then my second thought was
who cares anyway

i told him i was 9 kyu KGS & he says KGS rankings are soft on Kyu players & hard on Dan players
and IGS has better a ranking system, all round.

i got a chance to share my philosophy on how kyu ranks don't matter and when you reach shodan on any main server it all seem to even out anyway, so why bother

i ended up wining he made a great comeback at one point i was ahead by 100 points, i got lazy and overconfident and in a few moves it was back even, so it was fun



this was today KGS

this guy was great his solid opening had me worried
but i just did what i could and ended up out reading him
thank go for tsumego

im 20k 6000 points YAY
im still on problem 157
but i have been doing tsumego
on the wbaduk.com website
not the test room but the lectures
i have been hitting the text lectures pretty hard lately
working on vital points & maek and peeking at the dan level haengma
lectures just to see what goes on in there its pretty good stuff
i cant wait to get there

Also, i have been trying to play a good game to get a review
to see what areas i need work on besides the obvious everything
so i get my mind ready to play the most solid game i can play so i can get a review
and i win, by resignation no less &
its funny because i win more when i don't think about wining
but lately when i loose by resignation i already know why i lost,
and i don't feel its review worthy and just embarrassing

I can usually spot my mistakes. even though they are simple mistakes i think everybody can spot such as; reading mistakes, wrong direction, picking a stupid fight i should have left alone, or hey i didn't see that, or just plain got surrounded

i just want to lose by 1 points and really learn something in a detailed review from one of my games

so i got on KGS after i re-downloaded it and got what i asked for
I played a free game with a 8 kyu and lost by komi it was GREAT, i had fun and now i got a few ideas on how to improve my game

here is the game and let me know what u think?

i got a chance to share my philosophy on how kyu ranks don't matter and when you reach shodan on any main server it all seem to even out anyway, so why bother

that's the spirit!

i was kind of down in spirits since i just found out i have to go to jail at the end of the month
over a stupid drunken bar fight me and my friend got into it
with a some idiots
we have 30 days at the end of the month over it
bummer-

so i been running around making arraignments with my teachers and getting my main grades in line

i will have to do a few make up tests but now that my school will not be effected and I'm not in danger of academic probation i feel much better now

but while I'm in jail i do have a chance to get stronger at go-
i have been thinking about it and i got a few ideas to make my time pass by faster

i got

This Is Haengma
Author: Kim Sung-rae and Sung Ki-Chang
-yutopian

Fundamental Principles of Go
Author: Yang, Yilun
- slate & shell

Think Like a Pro: Haengma
Author:by Yun Yeong-seon
-yutopian

and Yi Chang Ho's life & death series

that should be enough to keep me busy

I'm getting them mailed to me inside -

I'm in good spirits now

as far as my progress goes since my last post

i have been playing white more in handicap games
its not as hard as i thought now i see that the handicap is there because they need it. so the games are about even in the middle game the opening is just odd

i actually ended up giving my first review because of it
was a low handicap where i was white
and i just wanted to show the guy why he lost
there where basic mistakes i felt like i could point out

that's was award because i don't think I'm qualified to teach I'm a beginner myself but i tried to help a little and i use to do the same stuff 3 moths ago

i went through the go dojo again- i tired the great wall out it was weird
i think my opponent was more confused than me
it was fun though
my goal was to dominate the center and take whatever else i can
here's the game





that was a crazy game
i thought he would have won if i didn't get the big kill
but i reviewed it on smartgo
and realized i was wining by 2.5 points anyway
TALK ABOUT FIGHTING SPIRIT!

i have been doing tsumego on go grinder
in between classes and in my downtime
I'm currently at 66 % on master the basics
its about 1000 problems on basic tsumego
and tesuji I'm on number 77

i haven't had much time to stay on the computer i got a lot of work to do thank god for the Iphone

also i have been working through commented games on a actual board
its just like a pro malkovitch game I'm learning a lot from working through them

i have one game memorized because i went through it so much

between pro-games and tsumego and actual games and go books
i found a life long hobby that i enjoy more than call of duty black ops

i feel like one of the characters off of Hikaru
like the toya mejin he was proud of his go
he said something like "let me show you my go
the go of toya mejin"
now I'm like let me show you my go
the go of Everett Wright

I'm addicted to it

what doesn't kill you only makes you stronger


Back to school

hope your jail time passes without major problems. you have a life outside to go back to and a month out of routine is about right to contemplate about many things. (though probably not enough time to found a go club there.)

take care

Well I go tomorrow in the words of arnold schwartzanager I'll be back!

I'm about to play as much go as I can!

Don't call it a comeback!

I only had to do 15 days since i worked in the kitchen so I got out yesterday

It was not so bad I did alot of life and death; I read my books & Watched family guy

I Talked over the phone I was abel to keep up with dgs by phone since I had kifu papper Thanks to my ol lady she made things alot easier

she mailed me everything go related so I could study the whole time I was in there.

It's good to be back

I missed Go

Welcome back!

I haven't posted in your thread before, but, I've been reading and I love your enthusiasm...makes me want to train harder. Good to hear you didn't have too bad a time

Well after a few days of dusting off the ol desktop & getting my groove back I can tell I have gotten better but I'm still hungry for more understating

I'm 19k on cyberoro not wbaduk
I been on my iphone a lot more
I went from 17k to 14k on tetsuki
Those DGS guys are strong I
Learn alot from losing slowly
I started off 10k now I'm 14k
It was ugly at first but I'm fighting my way back up

I have been hanging out in the Internet go school & love it! Gou Juan has the best lectures IMO

I been thinking about singing up for KGS plus too I hear good things every-time I'm on KGS about some cool lecture I'm missing out on!

Even though the euro outweighs the dollar it's still a cheap investment. For Gou's lectures; I even plan on adding more money to my account and doing the one year membership. So I can watch a lecture everyday!

I still haven't got to the pro game reviews and she has 600+ lectures to watch. So much info to soak up for the kyu player.

I took lectures on the Chinese opening, typical mistakes 10k-1d
Opening and middle game training b level 10k-1d.

Besides that

I do 20 tsumego a day & if I get it wrong it doesn't count so I end up going throughout 37 problems until I solve 20 perfectly
I have been doing tsumego on go grinder
My current ratio is 79.6% I'm doing a set from mastering the basics I found online

My daily tsumego became habitual like my daily prayer now I don't have to remind myself I do them every morning

I have been playing guess the next move on smartgo pro to study pro games.
it's just like opening and middle game training in the Internet go school you look
for the best move.

I use to suck and never play guess the next move but now I'm much better and it's more fun. I like games from Rui Naiwe i hope that's spelled right; but her style is aggressive and solid.

I want to get on tygem but I miss wbaduk so much especially the lectures & the test room and the little applet with all those tsumego. So I think I will stick with KGS and wbaduk for learning purposes.

Oh yeah I'm going to Denver for a week, next week &they have 3 go clubs. I plan on representing!

I have a year membership as well. However, I would advice against starting with opening and joseki lectures for the time being. I would go for the basic stuff first. (Counting, endgame, controlling the center, typical mistakes, sacrificing stones, handicap games and others.)

My daily tsumego became habitual like my daily prayer now I don't have to remind myself I do them every morning

Congratulations.

I have been in study mode since my last post as u already know My hyperbolic time chamber Consist of:

Reading go books & watching lectures

Currently I'm studying Yang's Fundamental principles And watching Gou's lectures in the Internet go school

Study pro games

I'm going through O Rissei's catch a scent of victory

Tsumego

20 correct first try's everyday Currently I'm reading out 7 kyu problems I remember when I would have trouble with 12 kyu tsumego. It's a good feeling

play serious games

KGS I'm still 9 kyu I'm not satisfied with my rank so I will be playing more on KGS I'm 18 kyu on cyberoro I ranked up around 4 days ago

Get those games reviewed

this is the area I'm Slacking in the most I get some good reviews from l19's own Oren whenever I'm on KGS but I haven't been posting games in game analysis or playing in the KGS teaching ladder or sending games to go teaching ladder either.

I have been doing self review & It's not good enough, I can find mistakes but I still need some Dan level eyes to go over it too Because I miss all kinds or stuff

When I give control to a stronger player 4 review. I'm in amazement & sometimes the variation is a big juicy kill and those are my favorite kind.

I'm still going to Denver for a week I did some research and found the Havana go center is going to be the closest club in my area and it's open everyday I can't wait.

Well I got work to do I gotta find a good game so I can learn something new

See ya around!

1986 wrote:I have been doing self review & It's not good enough, I can find mistakes but I still need some Dan level eyes to go over it too Because I miss all kinds or stuff.

Nothing against review from stronger players, but if you notice one mistake in each game and don't repeat it after noticing it ten times, you will still be better than most. (Who don't review and don't change despite noticing their mistakes.)

Life is good

I'm on the 5k problem set on smartgo

my ration is 40% it sounds bad but it's great to get some of them right

Since I get 40% of the problems right the first time that motivates me to get the rest of them

I finished fundamental principles of go by mr.Yang

I studied it like a text book rather than just read it like a novel.

I love the way he words stuff. that book gets 5 stars personally a great study for kyu players

Now I'm on this is Haengma

I like to watch a lecture everyday from internetgoschool.com

People watch tv everyday
This is better

I'm going through catching a scent of victory on smartgo books, in 3 words, It is beautiful. It's not like a ordinary commented game book it's like a instructional book with illustrative games showing you the thought process of a professional player, Man it's good!

I'm playing a maklovitch game with robinz and I got a few DGS games going.

I have not been on KGS lately but my schedule is back open so I'll have more time for KGS I'm always on cyberoro on my phone

I'm on my iPhone all day and all night I think it replaced my computer it does so much but I'm still missing out on KGS and my wbaduk tsumego, & internetgoschool.com ,so my computer doesn't feel neglected

Oh yeah they got that one app with java now so u can play KGS on the istuff but I got enough apps i think I got 13 go apps and a game clock lol

That's pretty much my update I have been in study mode well i must get back to my love

I'm mad the Havana go center is closed I tried to go today and it was a spa
Well im in Denver for a week maybe I could try igolocal there are two more clubs I will call them tomorrow

Well I'm a take a show and make a move on my maklovitch game and play some cyberoro on my phone