Life In 19x19

I'm surprised no one's mentioned the Go World Archive.

Fyi, the woods used for go boards are soft woods. The japanese prefer this for the sound produced and the likelyness of making dents on the board when playing a stone. This is because they consider a board with dents from playing as beautiful (see wabi-sabi).

I have recently began to solve a lot go problems per a day, but the problem is that they have became much difficult, and I do not know the principles of them. When I read Janice Kim's books, I knew a lot of principles for solving a tsumego, like for example, the pivot, the killing shape and so on ...

Hope this helps.

Starting A Go Club
http://www.britgo.org/bgj/01907b.html

Started with 200 a week more than a month ago, around 40 a day. Took a month to finish a 900 problem book, then started redoing it last week. Except for the easy ones at the start of the book I find that I still have to read to solve the problems (as in haven't memorized the solutions yet) so ...

What does it take to achieve shodan when you at a low SDK playing strength such as 7 kyu. It looks like a long race to the finish line. I wonder what are some good ways to bust through some sdk ranks. I review at least one game of my favorite pro every night and probably do 5 tsumego a week, but is ...