Fwiffo's 2010 Study Journal

Marcus · Post by **Marcus** » Tue Jun 29, 2010 8:37 am

I like tsumego.

Website · Post by **Chew Terr** » Tue Jun 29, 2010 8:40 am

Nah, that's what I got. And it does look familiar.

daniel_the_smith · Post by **daniel_the_smith** » Tue Jun 29, 2010 8:57 am

@marcus:

Magicwand · Post by **Magicwand** » Tue Jun 29, 2010 9:01 am

daniel_the_smith wrote:@marcus:
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topazg · Post by **topazg** » Tue Jun 29, 2010 9:02 am

@daniel:

Marcus · Post by **Marcus** » Tue Jun 29, 2010 9:04 am

Magicwand and topazg both jumped on it quicker than I did. Thanks guys!

KGS 4 kyu · Post by **fwiffo** » Tue Jun 29, 2010 9:09 am

In fact, it is on goproblems.com. I should have just done a position search.

daniel_the_smith · Post by **daniel_the_smith** » Tue Jun 29, 2010 9:18 am

I need to go back to bed... :-?

unkx80 · Post by **unkx80** » Tue Jun 29, 2010 1:24 pm

That was [sl=HitachiNumber9]Hitachi Number 9[/sl] on SL, posted many years ago. Chances of somebody seeing it should be quite high.

KGS 4 kyu · Post by **fwiffo** » Wed Jun 30, 2010 10:47 am

June 29, 2010

The Direction of Play, Started Chapter 2
Graded Go Problems for Beginners, Vol. 4, #19-41, 17/23
Continued six ongoing DGS games plus Malkovich

Not happy with getting 5/23 of these problems wrong; they aren't very hard.

KGS 4 kyu · Post by **fwiffo** » Sat Jul 03, 2010 9:23 am

June 30-July 2, 2010

Started re-reading Making Good Shape, hoping some of it sinks in this time.

KGS 4 kyu · Post by **fwiffo** » Sat Jul 03, 2010 9:59 pm

July 3, 2010

Finished re-reading Making Good Shape, Chapter 1
Graded Go Problems for Beginners, Vol. 4, #42-71, 33/37

Was in a problem-doing mood today, so I did a bunch.

The first 41 problems in the book were middle-game tesuji/shape type questions. #42-49 are joseki problems. I missed #46 and #47 which were handicap joseki, and #49. I almost gave myself half-credit for that last one because my end result was similar to some of the several correct variations given. The next four were multiple-choice, direction-of-play type opening problems. They were pretty easy; I would probably have gotten them right even without the labels. #54-71 were life-and-death, and I aced those. #72-78 were endgame problems, and I missed just the last one.

Next comes "Level Two", we'll see how much harder they are.

Finished my first DGS game this morning; the only one where I got black. Started a few more and have a total of eight going right now. Somehow I'm white in all of them.

[sgf-full]http://www.dragongoserver.net/sgf.php?gid=579375[/sgf-full]

KGS 4 kyu · Post by **fwiffo** » Sun Jul 04, 2010 10:22 pm

July 4, 2010

Finished re-reading Making Good Shape, Chapter 2
Lesson with teacher

KGS 4 kyu · Post by **fwiffo** » Mon Jul 05, 2010 9:06 pm

July 5, 2010

The Direction of Play Chapter 2
Making Good Shape #1-18 (14.5/18)

Making Good Shape #11 is the same as Graded Go Problems for Beginners Vol. 4 #43, but the two books give different solutions. I'll give myself half-credit :roll:

Click Here To Show Diagram Code: [go]$$W $$ ------------------ $$ | . . . . . . . . . $$ | . . . . . . . . . $$ | . . . . . O . . . $$ | . . . X . . . . . $$ | . . 1 . . . . . . $$ | . . O X X . . . . $$ | . . . O . . . . . $$ | . . . . . . . . . $$ | . . . . . . . . .[/go]

How should black respond to :w1:

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Anyhow, I should do better than this considering it's my second time through these problems (I'd gotten through #104 before I started over). I don't feel like I'm really absorbing any of the new ideas I'm being exposed to. My teacher has shown me a couple things more than once in our lessons, and I've made the same EXACT errors multiple times. Likewise with the shape and direction of play concepts I've been reading about.

I won two more DGS games today. I think my initial rating there is too weak, and I keep getting white, so I put up a couple requests for stronger players. I have eight games ongoing and a couple requests in the waiting room.

Of the two games that ended today, I think this is the more interesting one. I had handicapped myself by playing unfocused and really terribly for a couple days, falling behind and left with weak groups, but put together a much stronger endgame than my opponent and ended up with a pretty easy win.

[sgf-full]http://www.dragongoserver.net/sgf.php?gid=579565[/sgf-full]

The other game that ended today at only 77 moves (I made a pretty major kill), and is probably less interesting. I have two other games nearly finished. In one, I've killed more than half the board. The other is close, but I'm ahead and it's late in endgame so I just have to avoid a major screw-up.

Dusk Eagle · Post by **Dusk Eagle** » Mon Jul 05, 2010 10:13 pm

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