dumbrope's holistic study journal
Posted: Mon Sep 16, 2013 3:15 pm
I'll post my games in game analysis from now on instead of here or on this thread, which is too server-specific. This thread is for progress reports and general musing.
You may ask: what is a holistic study journal? By this I mean that at this stage in my life, any improvement at go I can seek is necessarily intertwined with other aspects of life. In particular, I don't know if it is possible or wise to separate my go pursuits from, say my health goals. I lose so many games due to lack of concentration or due to fatigue, etc. that I'm fairly certain that being in better shape would improve at least some of my games. No one has really said it better than Hans Pietsch in this interview where he talks about what he was taught by Kobayashi Chizu:
I don't think I'm going to report on the status of my laundry unless I really think it's interfering with my go. But lack of sleep, physical condition I think are important considerations up front.
Like some of the Russian chess schools, I'm just going to spend a couple of weeks creating habits to get in better physical shape, though less intense than I think those diehards are.
Goals to review progress on 2013-09-30, two weeks from now:
Honestly if I can't do this, it's hard to imagine any go improvement.
Suggestions are welcome. I'll try to be open-minded.
You may ask: what is a holistic study journal? By this I mean that at this stage in my life, any improvement at go I can seek is necessarily intertwined with other aspects of life. In particular, I don't know if it is possible or wise to separate my go pursuits from, say my health goals. I lose so many games due to lack of concentration or due to fatigue, etc. that I'm fairly certain that being in better shape would improve at least some of my games. No one has really said it better than Hans Pietsch in this interview where he talks about what he was taught by Kobayashi Chizu:
Hans: Not only advice on go technique, but also about how to live my life day to day. For example how to do my household chores. She always found out when I did my chores badly like vacuuming, dish washing. Then she saw right away that the game on the next weekend would not be good. And she was always right. The concentration on the things you do in your life away from the board is also important. You have to concentrate on everything you do and follow a goal. Satoru said the same thing. Even when he goes out to eat, he has a goal. It can be something small like today I want to talk much or drink a lot. There is always a small goal. Eventually, 100% of the way you live your everyday life reappears on the go board.
I don't think I'm going to report on the status of my laundry unless I really think it's interfering with my go. But lack of sleep, physical condition I think are important considerations up front.
Like some of the Russian chess schools, I'm just going to spend a couple of weeks creating habits to get in better physical shape, though less intense than I think those diehards are.
Goals to review progress on 2013-09-30, two weeks from now:
- Exercise 1 hour per day, 5 days per week. (I won't hurt myself at this level since I've resumed exercise many times before from sedentary to this level.) This will be challenging as I will be travelling one of those weeks.
- Record quantity of sleep per day each day the 1st week. Attempt to increase sleep to at least 7 hours per night or until natural, refreshed waking---whichever is longer---by end of 2nd week. This is also a stretch goal. I can hardly recall a time when I had a week of good sleep.
Honestly if I can't do this, it's hard to imagine any go improvement.
Suggestions are welcome. I'll try to be open-minded.
did you consider any other local moves ?
you pressured a safe group at the bottom and lost sente
bad shape allowed Black to strengthen himself in sente
pressuring the lower side once more lost sente again, while you should have cut/attacked the groups at the upper right
another threat against Black's super strong group was ignored and Black settled things actively on the right side