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 Post subject: three years later...
Post #1 Posted: Sun Apr 22, 2012 8:20 am 
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weekend afternoon
So here's my story: I played pretty actively 4 years ago, and got to 5 kyu about 3 years ago. (I was a pretty solid 5k too.) I then went on a hiatus, and all of a sudden, three years went by. So here I am, stuck at the very beginning (approximately 20k). I didn't think this could happen, or that the concepts, tesuji, and joseki that I had so painstakingly studied would come back quickly once I started playing again. It turns out that this isn't the case.

I have set a goal to reach 5k again by August 15.

I don't have the time to invest in playing games as I once did, due to increased responsibilities, work, school workload, etc., so I supplement it with tsumego, and play what games I can on the weekends.
Anyways, I want to document my progress here in this thread. Games for analysis will also be posted in another thread in the game analysis forum.
As of right now, here is my daily schedule:
30 elementary tsumego (Cho Chikun's)
A few intermediate tsumego
some joseki review/ studying (not memorization ;-) )
Reviewing fundamental concepts in Lessons in the Fundamentals of Go
I also have about 25 games going on ogs and a few on DGS that I make moves on every day or so.

If there's anything that anyone would suggest I add to this schedule, that would be appreciated.
I'll be buying some more go books (Fundamentals is the only one I own) sometime soon..

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 Post subject: Re: three years later...
Post #2 Posted: Sun Apr 22, 2012 10:30 am 
Lives with ko

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I wish you a most expedient return!! I'm working up through the Kyu ranks the first time myself. Maybe we can play sometime.
I'm TwitchyGo on KGS :tmbup:

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Post #3 Posted: Sun Apr 22, 2012 11:08 am 
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weekend afternoon
Twitchy Go wrote:
I wish you a most expedient return!! I'm working up through the Kyu ranks the first time myself. Maybe we can play sometime.
I'm TwitchyGo on KGS :tmbup:


Thanks. I'd love to play a game or two sometime. I'm lildrummer on kgs.

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