My study Journal of awesomeness and excitement

[speedchase]

I'm glad you're progressing fast. Will maybe give me a little bit of challenge when we play I would recommend you to look back at the sections of your book again (even the 90% ones!). Of course, it's a good result. But when you consider that in 10 games that have such problems, you'll mess up one... I'm sure you can make it to 100%.

Nice quote from Guo Juan: I'm not afraid of someone who studied quickly 10 000 000 positions. However, I'm afraid of someone who studied well 1 position.

Might think about that...

I get what you are saying, but I this is already my second time through the book, and I want to try other books as well. Also I think that If i improve my general reading ability I will be able to solve easier problems trying harder problems will let me do this better. I also think that of the problems I get wrong, the reason is more because I lose my focus than because I can't read out the problem. I am confident in an actual game where I am more focused I could get them 99.9%.

BTW I would like another game. What time zone are you in, I am EST. Next saturday (the 31st) works for me, However I would prefer to play early afternoon or late morning.

[Leyleth]

saturdays are hard for me... I'm in EST too, but I can mostly play during the week. Wednesdays, I got a go club reunion. Saturdays, I'm doing something and Sundays, I got another go club reunion (yeah, I'm going at 2 go clubs ) Therefpre, these days, I can only early in the morning or late (past 8PM). The rest of the day, it's pretty much anywhere anytime!

[speedchase]

Hmm.. Perhaps after 6-7 someday this week (tuesday or later)

[speedchase]

OK so I want to catch up my journal. First I got sick and couldn't focus on go. Then after I recovered I couldn't find the will to play do tsumego all the time. I played two games and lost both. I felt really awful. then, earlier today, I got my Lee Changho Tsumego and I was very excited. I did the entire book in a couple hours and got >90% correct (more details to follow). I feel much better and I might even play a game tonight.

Lee Changho Tsumego book 1 attempt 1:
Errors: 11
Percent correct: 91.06%
Reasons for Mistakes:
Defender Shortage of Liberties that I missed: 4
missed Ko variation: 1
Variation did not work and I thought it did: 2
Missed Variation (Not Ko): 3
Falsely perceived Attacker shortage of Liberties:1

Of these 3 were because of rushing and the other 8 were because of failure to fully analyze the situation.
Out of them the scariest are the variation did not work and I thought it did, because that is not a mistake in reading, but just downright hallucination.

[speedchase]

Ugh I just played a horrible game... my opponent played weird moves, which I countered fine until I just died... I even could have saved myself but didn't...



And people say that playing computers is bad because computers play too weird...

[Dazz]

my opponent played weird moves

That is one of the things I love about go is the freedom that you have to play 'weird' moves. I need to try and play 'weird' moves and be more creative in my games.

[speedchase]

I went through Lee Changho Tsumego 1 again and only got 2 wrong.
Both were to kill problems where I thought the defender had a shortage of liberties but actually didn't. I am moving on to Lee Changho Tsumego 2 (I don't have the tesuji's yet. I should get them and my other books tomorrow). I also played another game again today, and I finally got a win. it was a crazy fighting game with a giant running fight covering half the board. I am positioning it from pure awesome factor. I didn't play great, but I am feeling better about my focus, and I also managed to play joseki for a a couple moves despite having no idea what joseki was (my opponent eventually deviated from being something in kogos).

Here is the game:

[Shaddy]

In this game, white's b6 group is not dead at the end.

[RBerenguel]

Shaddy, care to elaborate? I know it's not a nakade, so.. I think also black can get something of it, but don't know how.

[Marcus]

It's a nice bit of reading practice, actually. If Shaddy does elaborate, I think he should put it in HIDE tags so people can give it a look for themselves, if they wish.

[RBerenguel]

White's B6! I was looking at black's group as if it was cut off by white. Let's check white then!

Edit: Got it, I assume.

[speedchase]

that seems so obvious now...

[speedchase]

Yesterday i did not have much time for go, but I did manage to get a game in. I won, and Leyleth helped me review after.

Today I took a break from LCH tsumego and Tesuji and I started working through Weiqi Life and Death 1000 Problems. I am up to problem 75. I have decided I am going to go through this book "mastering" one chapter at a time (the smaller chapters will be grouped together.)
I think this way I will have a clearer idea of my progress as I am moving through the book, and it will also help me work through the harder parts of the book if I have already mastered the easier.

[speedchase]

I was pretty busy today but I still managed to get in a solid 30 - 45 min of tsumego. The problems are getting harder, and I am slowing down. I only got up to 82 today. I am enjoying this more, especially because when I make a mistake I have gotten into the habit of turning the problem around (ex. when the problem is black to live I add my incorrect move and complete the problem as white to kill). I feel this is effective because I am practicing reading something that is in my blind spot. I have also started noticing that sometimes I can't see the answer to a problem until suddenly something jumps out at me, and then I read for a bit to make sure it works. It's a little bit weird but I am enjoying studying more now so it must be good. I am pretty tired so I am going to bed early tonight.

[Leyleth]

I was pretty busy today but I still managed to get in a solid 30 - 45 min of tsumego. The problems are getting harder, and I am slowing down. I only got up to 82 today. I am enjoying this more, especially because when I make a mistake I have gotten into the habit of turning the problem around (ex. when the problem is black to live I add my incorrect move and complete the problem as white to kill). I feel this is effective because I am practicing reading something that is in my blind spot. I have also started noticing that sometimes I can't see the answer to a problem until suddenly something jumps out at me, and then I read for a bit to make sure it works. It's a little bit weird but I am enjoying studying more now so it must be good. I am pretty tired so I am going to bed early tonight.

Some times, answers come more easily this way. Being a Dsaun fan, here's one of his stories. He went to Korea where there was a big tournament. Dsaun was in a room, watching the game on a TV. There was some monitors so that amateurs could see these games. All you could see was the board and the hands. A profesional was amongst them and he found that everything was weird. He had trouble finding the moves, until somebody had a flash. They turned the TV 90 degrees (literally). Then, the pro could understand all the game.

This is why I think go's mostly a game of perspective. When you have trouble in a certain situation, try to look at it from a different point of view. Often, everything becomes clearer!