Life In 19x19

A lot of things have happened, and I can already see that next week will become quite stressful too. Anyway I haven't posted here for around a week, so it is time! Sadly I didn't go to the tournament after all, but I've already set my sights on another tournament happening this month.

But still ...

I had no time this weekend to study Go, but I am back on track now (a lot of IGS problems in the backlog) and here are a few games I played today, and I added some thoughts with the help of LZ.

The first game was against a 2k KGS, his profile said he was also 2k in real life (I thought probably AGA ...

I really enjoy spending part of my time on Go, it is such an intriguing game, and you never know what challenges awaits you in a new game, like a procedural dungeon in a videogame, you know the rules, but you don't know what layout or what monsters lurk in the dark.. a tricky fuseki? A challenging ...

I bought the training system without the video lectures, but I fear I can not yet answer your question. Because I started doing the Basics: Step-by-step first (of course not all problems, but just the ones were I was curious), it was good to consolidate the concepts due to the way the system is set ...

Interesting discussion, I checked it out myself with LZ and the variations seem more complex than I expected, I really didn't think the cutting stone would have so much life in it.

About my progress I don't have much to say, I made the decision to try and focus more when I play games, because I ...

I stayed home tonight (not feeling well) and decided to play a bit on KGS, to my surprise the automatch feature matched me up against a 4k (while I am a 2k on KGS) so that meant going against 2HC stones.

In the past I really disliked handicap games, I don't have that feeling anymore, I appreciate ...

True that would be a bit much, I wanted to say the more commonly played 3-3 invasion josekis and not all existing josekis!

Edit: And thanks for the good luck wishes

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Thank you for your comments Uberdude, I really want to have these standard josekis down before I attend the tournament at the end of the month.

Anyways, a few days have gone by since I posted here last. I attended my local club again this week, and played a lot of online games. On OGS I am still on ...

I played 2-3 games right now (I should have played only two and taken a bit of time to study and do for example tsumego), anyway I lost all of them.

I have to admit I have quite the losing streak at the moment on OGS, and I don't know when it will get better, so I really wanted to get ahead, win ...

Thanks for the review. I've been trying out lizzie to review my games here and there - but I feel like some of the suggestions for plays it gives me are beyond my level of reading/understanding , so I'm still hesitant to use it frequently.


But, that is perfect then for learning isn't it? If they ...

Played not that much today, so I went over another game with LZ. This time from the IGS GoPanda2 server, where I play at the moment around 1k? (I so far have only played 11 games on it and stand on 8 wins and 3 defeats) I played black and it was again with Canadian Byo-yomi, if I recall correctly ...

I sadly don't have time right now for a long response, but I just wanted to share this with y'all (a bit of history of the development of the 3-3 invasion after AlphaGo's emergence)

https://www.eurogofed.org/?id=127

Quotes:

"(...) Ever since, 3-3 has established itself as another option to deal ...

Another game, this time against a 1k on OGS, played with Canadian byo-yomi (3 minutes per 10 moves) and if I remember correctly, 1 minute main time, 3 minutes felt long enough in the early middle game, but later the situations at the top right and me reading out stuff on the left side sucked my time ...

I also feel Leela and other AI are god send, now you don't have to wait for a stronger player to be around, why didn't XY work? Why is Z the better move?

Yeah, it eliminates the confusion. Two players at 1D strength could be thinking about 3 or 4 possible moves in a situation. They both could ...