Life In 19x19

Well after all this time of no posts I do have an update to put on here.

Since my last post I have done no tsumego and no study, save for playing and reviewing some games on the ASR League, but I'm not sure there's really been enough of those to make a significant difference. It does seem that just ...

Thanks for the encouragement SoDesuNe!

Though I'm going to abandon this journal for now I think, especially as I'm now sliding from 3 kyu to 4 kyu.

PeterN

Goal: +++FAILED+++

No real surprise that the goal of reaching 1D failed, especially given my quote at the time of making it. I had hoped to improve by more than one stone though, oh well.

Still, just because I failed doesn't mean it's time to stop, just means it'll take "a bit" longer.

PeterN

Progress Report: -

Tsumego: None
Games Reviewed: None
Other: None

Work has been hectic this week to say the least, and been too mentally drained to play let alone do any study. Not good after last week's tsumego laziness.

PeterN

Hi mitsun, thanks for the comments, they are appreciated

Although this game was played fairly late in the evening for me, it wasn't enough for tiredness to come into play, and I wwasn't playing on cruise control either (I ended up in byo-yomi!). Slow and safe play is my problem at the moment I ...

Progress Report: -

Tsumego: None
Games Reviewed: 1 lost game, 1 won game
Other: Played through games 60-64 of Invincible

Bit of a break from tsumego this week, AKA I was lazy on it.

Although one of my games reviewed was a won game, it really should have gone to my opponent, while it is a victory ...

Shaddy wrote:Just a minor non-review note- you should capture the two stones in the bottom right seki. Black has three points there that weren't counted.

Hmm... never considered that before, thanks!

PeterN

So much seki!



PeterN

Regarding the game, the 3-3 point is inefficient to build from. You should ignore it for a while, because it's not a threat as a result, it's just points. I think black's goal was to goad you into an overplay and then use the side stone to fight. If you must approach, the large knight's move ...

Yeah, this is not an easy tsumego to read out, certainly beyond my level, though I'm hoping to just flat out memorise the right answer. Bent fours are a bane of my reading.

W should live if you 1 where you do, 4 should be at C19 in diagram 1, and then A19 if you capture. I can say this with ...

Progress Report: -

Tsumego: Finished reading Graded Go Problems for Beginners IV (82.6% correct)
Games Reviewed: 3 lost games
Other: None

Well, interestingly in the tsumego book I believe I encountered the exact position from a problem the day before I found it in the book this week. Unfortunately ...

Progress Report: -

Tsumego: Continued reading Graded Go Problems for Beginners IV
Games Reviewed: 2 lost games, 1 won game
Other: None

A bit of a bad week for playing games, I feel I'm slipping back into trying to kill everything mode instead of thinking about how to play in a more sensible manner ...

I've kept on studying from the books mentioned in my last post. I try to incorporate the principles into my own games, and even if I do it incorrectly or too naively, it feels like I have become better at formulating plans at least. I am attaching a game for the first time;

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Progress Report: -

Tsumego: Started reading Graded Go Problems for Beginners IV
Games Reviewed: 2 lost games, 2 won games
Other: Continued reading Otake's Secrets of Strategy

Well, this is the first week in a long time I've reviewed a game that I won against someone a lot weaker than me. Feels ...

I clicked the option for Accept any undo request before the next move is made, although there is a little more leeway than that, if I respond to their move very quickly then I'll still accept the undo request if it comes in what I consider to be a reasonable time. I've done similar things in face to ...