No no, but I was expecting to get further than 5 pages in a day xDbillywoods wrote:You're not seriously telling me you were expecting to master an entire book in a day?foeZ wrote:But I've been busy studying it for little over an hour now, and I've gotten to page 5 out of 260+Textbooks and reference books are not like reading fiction. You may spend days on a single page. Don't do so if you can help it, of course - but if you have to, don't worry about it.
How do you study go books?
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Re: How do you study go books?
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Ishida and Takao are a culmination and distillation of hundreds of years of knowledge.foeZ wrote:No no, but I was expecting to get further than 5 pages in a day xD
Certain moves and sequences have been studied and analyzed over hundreds of years;
others, in less time. And these are not even the really difficult variations --
they are merely the "basic" ones, thus the titles of the dictionaries.
Many sequences -- life-and-death, tesujis, etc. -- that are "obvious" to pros are omitted.
When the book says "Black collapses" or "This does not work for White," the reader often has to verify for herself.
Ishida and Takao are only a tip of the tip of the iceberg.
Just a whiff.
Spending one day on 5 pages is one level of understanding.
Spending one week on 5 pages is another.
One month on 5 pages, yet another.
Or lack thereof.
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Re: How do you study go books?
Just to give you some context on how long other people might take. I spent about an hour going over blacks follow ups if white ignores the marked stone. The options being 'a' and 'b'.
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True, I was talking specifically about the variations covered in 21st century dictionary of basic joseki.(I did not clarify that though)EdLee wrote:In some cases, if W tenuki again after, then B also has (c).
In addition the variations stemming from
a or b either leave available or cut off the marked white stone for greater profit.You've inspired me to look into a position though It seems that with the exchange of the two marked stones a might now be the vital point of the position. I'll look at it later though.
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Re: How do you study go books?
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Looks to me that if black plays a, white will want to defend against c. Then, depending on what the upper left looks like, a severe pincer of the
stone might be fun for black. Alternatively, black can make a base on the right with the 
stone.
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Looks to me that if black plays a, white will want to defend against c. Then, depending on what the upper left looks like, a severe pincer of the
stone might be fun for black. Alternatively, black can make a base on the right with the stone.[/15k-ignorance]
Poka King of the south east.
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