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
Those damn improvement roadblocks, and free teaching
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Those damn improvement roadblocks, and free teaching
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
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
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Re: Those damn improvement roadblocks, and free teaching
If any dans want to make a similar offer to a 4k, I'd be interested...
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Re: Those damn improvement roadblocks, and free teaching
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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Re: Those damn improvement roadblocks, and free teaching
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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Re: Those damn improvement roadblocks, and free teaching
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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Re: Those damn improvement roadblocks, and free teaching
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
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Re: Those damn improvement roadblocks, and free teaching
I think one good turn deserves another, so I hereby offer a teaching game to topazg, if he wants it - Shaddy
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Re: Those damn improvement roadblocks, and free teaching
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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Re: Those damn improvement roadblocks, and free teaching
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
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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Re: Those damn improvement roadblocks, and free teaching
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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Re: Those damn improvement roadblocks, and free teaching
I'm willing to give a teaching game* to anyone willing to learn.
*Warning: I have no teaching experience
*Warning: I have no teaching experience
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Re: Those damn improvement roadblocks, and free teaching
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.
To contact me faster than via the forum, email me. My email address is my username on this forum, followed by the letter "b". The domain is "umich.edu".
I will give a lesson to somebody that thinks they can learn from me.
To contact me faster than via the forum, email me. My email address is my username on this forum, followed by the letter "b". The domain is "umich.edu".
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Re: Those damn improvement roadblocks, and free teaching
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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Re: Those damn improvement roadblocks, and free teaching
Thanks for all these offers. If someone around 6k (+-3 stones) takes a lesson, I'd like to attend. Plz let me know.