Life In 19x19

Well, it seems that summer is the right time for this kind of posts, so here's mine :

Have fun, one game at a time

Have fun, what's ur rank?

kokomi wrote:Have fun, what's ur rank?

I do not know what you mean, but perhaps you can find it here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ur

Harleqin wrote:

kokomi wrote:Have fun, what's ur rank?

I do not know what you mean, but perhaps you can find it here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ur

hmm, I don't know what you mean neither.

kokomi wrote:Have fun, what's ur rank?

It doesn't really matter, but I understand you need to know if this method works. It got me from need-to-learn-the-rules to 5k in a year, with the occasionnal book and pro game (with which I do also have fun, btw).

lorill wrote:

kokomi wrote:Have fun, what's ur rank?

It doesn't really matter, but I understand you need to know if this method works. It got me from need-to-learn-the-rules to 5k in a year, with the occasionnal book and pro game (with which I do also have fun, btw).

It seems i'm speaking a different lanuage here in this post.

->

Maybe my english is worse than I thought ? I meant I was 5k (on KGS), isn't that what you wanted to know ?

It really works! I'm 4k now

Well, KGS tells me I play at 3k. And I still struggle (a lot!) in Graded Go Problems for Beginners vol 3 (20k to 15k).

lorill wrote:Well, KGS tells me I play at 3k. And I still struggle (a lot!) in Graded Go Problems for Beginners vol 3 (20k to 15k).

Although it gives that rank on the front, the back of the book says 12k to 6k...

Yeah, I know, but it's less funny this way

How many problems do you normally do vs. number of games?

I've been trying to figure out the best division of time and energy. Games take longer and are more fun, but problems feel like I'm pushing myself more. But if you're getting better at a nice rate doing almost only games maybe I need to rethink my strategy a bit. Or if you're doing lots of problems still I think "Have fun, one game at a time" might be a bit of a half-truth

This is highly variable, I don't really have a plan like others here.

Most days, I play one medium automatch (25mn+5*30), and no tsumego. Last summer, I discovered the easy tsumegos from GoChild and did 600 in a few days, but it has been two or three monthes without doing any. Some days I replay a commented pro game. The commented part is nice, but I select mostly these one to avoid to choose : too many pro games, so few time.

I've started doing 3 or 4 problems from GGPfB v3 each morning before getting to work, but I only started this week and I'll probably be bored soon enough.

Oh, and I try to review or get review of a few games, maybe two per month ?

So to sum up, I think it would be something like :
* play : 75%
* review: 10%
* progames: 5%
* tsumego: 5%
* books and chat: 5%

But as I said, this is not a prepared or conscious plan, and I don't know if I would improve more or less doing things differently.

I noticed there were only a few pages left on my GGPfBv3, so I decided to do the last 40 or so this evening. There were rather easy, but I still miss a few damezumaris...

Time for volume 4. I'll be done in a year or so if it takes as long as vol 3

Today is my birthday :