Life In 19x19

topazg wrote: Sorry, probably not a very helpful answer

actually, I get it

Tsumego is much harder to study than theory.

topazg wrote:d) Also, I prefer the play style on IGS

which is?

so, I have a plan now.

1. study EGS vol.4 Life and Death (I chose it first because it's harder and hence more boring)
2. study EGS vol.3 Tesuji
3. study Get Strong at Tesuji

(It should help, shouldn't it?)

and most important 4 watch video lectures to procrastinate~

ps. mr Yang's quote from ...

goddess wrote:You might consider the group lessons with Guo Juan. They are a good value because you can watch all of the other groups if you want.

Terri

I don't have a load of money which they worth.

I feel overwhelmed.

I have so much to study ahead of me, I have so much material. Lots of books, videos, reviews. I don't know how to proceed and I really want a plan now.

As for what I've done:

I've played only one game I feel good about. Others were also fun but I couldn't give them enough ...

finished watching all Battousai's dan series lectures, and watched 2 regular pro game reviews.

finished first in my class EpsVII in ASR League, great experience overall, and very excited about my new class, most of the players there are stronger than me(even couple of dans). I noticed that the lack ...

>that's 861 problems in 7 days.

that's astonishing, you do study hard.

>my offer from my first post still stands ("If anyone would be interested in regularly playing a game with me on kgs (2k or stronger please) I'd be happy to play you").

I'm keeping steady 2k rank for now, so if you like I ...

finished 12k problems on goproblems.com, not very happy about it, going to solve them again next week.

played some good games, won against 1k, played a close game in ASR League vs 1k but lost by 2.5.

almost finished watching Battousai's own games videos, only 1.5 game left.

tried solving Cho ...

If you want my opinion, reading ability = tsumego is the most important thing, and without decent reading ability (I'm arbitrarily going to define this as the ability to knock out any problem in Cho Chikun's Dictionary of Life and Death (elementary) in less than 45 seconds or so) you won't make it ...

for the past month.

got kgs+
watched Yilun Yang's lecture. He's amazing, his comments are simple and easy to follow.
watched MaedaRyo's lecture, it was nice on close combat, should re-watch.

found The Enclave and Battousai's livestream, I've heard of him before but never knew he was such a great ...

Wow, this is some determination! So much life and death! 1001 life and death problems is a beautiful book, some time ago I worked through one move problems and felt like my life & death improved. Life and Death from Elementary Go Series seemed too hard then and I'm sure it's still too hard for me ...

I'm your typical 3k. My reading is very weak only 1 or 2 moves ahead if at all. I'm lazy, playing shape moves instead of reading. I have some understanding of opening theory and endgame, almost no joseki knowledge and I'm clueless in middle game. I always thought that if I put enough energy ...