Life In 19x19

Phrased it wrongly, meant 30min+5*30sec.

Thank you for the tips.
Tried to play a game the way you said. Time was 30min+30s, but it seems to be far too little time for me. It seems I need like 3h pro player. Didn't take many moves to reach byoyomi. Does 30min+30s count as fast or as slow? Nonetheless, it's clearly not enough time. When I ...

gogameguru wrote:One thing you haven't mentioned is whether you spend much time reviewing your own games by yourself. Have you tried that?

Not that much, how long should you do that? After every game? Only after the slow ones?

Thank you for the review; I mainly play on KGS, but played on IGS, too (when I was like 8 kyu). Some time ago I wanted to try playing on IGS again, but I wasn't sure which rank I should pick, so I didn't.
36: was frightened of black c5, but now that you point it out; it seems I could simply have ...

Thank you all for your tips
Just played a game. But it seems like a bad game for posting here. It's only fighting. Also I won. Though I was lucky; 2 groups nearly died. I think he let me off too easily some times. I was white, playing against some 2d on kgs. Times was 30min + 1min/move. But posting ...

Yes it's one of my accounts. But with that I only play 10sec games. And when I won some games I would stop playing with that account for a while. It's not representative at all, but a result of me being an idiot.

Don't feel any improvement.

Maybe I'm parsing words too much, but why do you expect to feel improvement? When improvement is slow, maybe it's hard to feel. A 13 year old may still be growing, but may not feel it from day to day. That doesn't mean the kid should say to himself, "eating doesn't ...

I play online most of the time. I don't play a particular style; what happens, happens. If playing for moyo seems best, I play for moyo; if playing teritorially seems best, I play territorially... Might upload the next game I play. But don't have time for playing right now.

Not sure about how long I got teached. Maybe like 20-30 times.

I don't plan on starting playing other games; played chess, but I think Go is more fun. So it's not like playing Go without improving is no fun at all (otherwise I wouldn't have done so the last 3 years without improving), it's just less fun. I did take some lessons, but without results. But not ...

Why is it pointless?
There's nothing new, it's like it's always the same game. Placing some stones, feeling unsatisfied because I played like detritus and it was the same again. I didn't learn anything new I can apply to my game.
What is the reason you want to improve?
Simply want to be better ...

Hi,
it took me 1 year to reach EGF 2D (from 30K). I simply read a lot of books (like "Attack and Defense", "In the beginning", "Lessons in the fundamental of Go", "Tesuji", "The Endgame") and played a lot of games. I read a book, learned new things, improved. That was like 3 years ago. Since then I ...