Life In 19x19

Right now I'm 2-1k'ish, and by this time next year I will be about 3d. (Yes I can do it ^_^)

speedchase wrote:is it race to shodan or 2 dan? either way I'll beat all of you!
I am almost 6kyu btw

Let's make it a race to 2 Dan.

RBerenguel wrote:

hailthorn011 wrote:

speedchase wrote:Become 2 dan by the beginning of summer.
Become stronger than 2 dan by the end of summer

Nice goal. Want to make it a race?

Count me in (and Leyleth, too). I'm 7 as speedchase, Leyleth's 6 (grazing 5) and you're 8... 1-2-3 Go?

Good luck! Although you all have an advantage. So here, you all stop playing until I catch up.

My goal is to introduce go to 20 people this year.

- Still be playing Go at the end of the year
- Improve a bit, specifically my knowledge of tesuji and life and death, also play several hundred games
- Make a Lego Goban (floor board) - not full size, just 19 by 19 'bumps' across - then keep it on my desk at work.

Beat Robert in an even game.

I'd like to be at least 4 kyu at the end of the year. I think I can do it.

Make the ASR even bigger and better.
Get that annoying shodan promotion for real now( holland has a committee that promotes dans)

Play more games and reach 1-3kyu by the end of the year

Further reducing the time spent on Go. Not playing more than 12 games throughout the year and uninstalling (and resisting the desire to reinstall) the Go related applications from my iphone, tablet, notebook, etc.

If explanation is needed: My second daughter is born some weeks ago and I am obliged to use my time on more productive things at work and at home. Go is a very nice and addictive game but it is too much self-contained and unproductive for the other aspects of my life. The time I spend on playing Go or solving tsumego or watching a pro game is completely useless for anything else than Go. Ok, there are many other things like that (e.g. watching TV, eating chocolate, drinking coffee, etc) but none of these other things takes as much time and concentration as Go, at least in my case. I will continue having a look and eventually posting every now and then in these forums, but I will try to restrict it as well.

That's my 2012 Go resolution.

entropi wrote:Further reducing the time spent on Go. Not playing more than 12 games throughout the year and uninstalling (and resisting the desire to reinstall) the Go related applications from my iphone, tablet, notebook, etc.

If explanation is needed: My second daughter is born some weeks ago and I am obliged to use my time on more productive things at work and at home. Go is a very nice and addictive game but it is too much self-contained and unproductive for the other aspects of my life. The time I spend on playing Go or solving tsumego or watching a pro game is completely useless for anything else than Go. Ok, there are many other things like that (e.g. watching TV, eating chocolate, drinking coffee, etc) but none of these other things takes as much time and concentration as Go, at least in my case. I will continue having a look and eventually posting every now and then in these forums, but I will try to restrict it as well.

That's my 2012 Go resolution.

entropi wrote:Further reducing the time spent on Go. Not playing more than 12 games throughout the year and uninstalling (and resisting the desire to reinstall) the Go related applications from my iphone, tablet, notebook, etc.

If explanation is needed: My second daughter is born some weeks ago and I am obliged to use my time on more productive things at work and at home. Go is a very nice and addictive game but it is too much self-contained and unproductive for the other aspects of my life. The time I spend on playing Go or solving tsumego or watching a pro game is completely useless for anything else than Go. Ok, there are many other things like that (e.g. watching TV, eating chocolate, drinking coffee, etc) but none of these other things takes as much time and concentration as Go, at least in my case. I will continue having a look and eventually posting every now and then in these forums, but I will try to restrict it as well.

That's my 2012 Go resolution.

Sounds even harder than reaching Shodan.

Enjoy your time with your daughter. You can always come back to go, but your daughter will never be so small and impressionable again. Good luck!

entropi wrote:Further reducing the time spent on Go. Not playing more than 12 games throughout the year and uninstalling (and resisting the desire to reinstall) the Go related applications from my iphone, tablet, notebook, etc.

If explanation is needed: My second daughter is born some weeks ago and I am obliged to use my time on more productive things at work and at home. Go is a very nice and addictive game but it is too much self-contained and unproductive for the other aspects of my life. The time I spend on playing Go or solving tsumego or watching a pro game is completely useless for anything else than Go. Ok, there are many other things like that (e.g. watching TV, eating chocolate, drinking coffee, etc) but none of these other things takes as much time and concentration as Go, at least in my case. I will continue having a look and eventually posting every now and then in these forums, but I will try to restrict it as well.

That's my 2012 Go resolution.

I can empathize. I even have the two kids. I play slightly more than 12 games in a year, but they come in bursts, when I have the time.

As for resolutions, I think I should be able to break shodan by the end of the Mayan Calendar ... right? (Maybe not ...)

Play Go for fun and not obsess about what I should be doing instead

wow so many shodan resolutions