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Offline mogosoup
 Post subject: Huge Leap Forward Going to China to play Go
Post #1 Posted: Wed May 16, 2012 10:33 pm 
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I am 9kyu on KGS. I started playing 5 or 6 months ago. On June 8th I'm leaving California to spend 2 months playing go in summer. My time will almost totally be devoted to playing go. We'll see just how much I improve. I'll either be studying at a go school in Wu Han or a go school in Guiyang or maybe I'll spend some time at both.

I'm currently in the process of beginning to read Tesuji and Attack and defense from the Elementary Go Series. I do some Tsumego every few days or so.
I've already read Basic Techniques of Go, Learn to Play GO 1-4 and several beginner books.

Since I won't be at school for 8 hours a day and won't have 4 hours of homework I hope my speed of learning can really increase,. I'll keep you guys updated. I wonder how much learning in China will help. I'll post some games in stuff

Hmmm I wonder if I'll even be able to reach this forum. :tmbdown:
I don't know why I'm posting this so soon, I should be studying for APs. I guess I'm just really excited. :mrgreen:

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Offline SoDesuNe
 Post subject: Re: Huge Leap Forward
Post #2 Posted: Thu May 17, 2012 1:19 am 
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Hey, great! Wish you lots of fun!

If you happen to have access to a VPN, it wouldn't be bad ^^

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Offline mogosoup
 Post subject: Huge Leap Forward
Post #3 Posted: Thu May 17, 2012 7:40 am 
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They guy I'm staying with is a minor member of the communist party, so maybe he gets special privileges or something.

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Offline illluck
 Post subject: Re: Huge Leap Forward
Post #4 Posted: Thu May 17, 2012 8:35 am 
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L19 can be reached in China, I've posted links to here on Chinese forums. Not sure, but I'm guessing that the largest issue with blocked content would be youtube, facebook, and twitter?

I doubt minor officials in the party gets privileges -.-
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Offline jts
 Post subject: Re: Huge Leap Forward
Post #5 Posted: Thu May 17, 2012 8:42 am 
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mogosoup wrote:
They guy I'm staying with is a minor member of the communist party, so maybe he gets special privileges or something.

No such luck. I once stayed with the acting mayor of a medium-sized city, and his internet made me want to tear my eyes out.

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Offline Joaz Banbeck
 Post subject: Re: Huge Leap Forward
Post #6 Posted: Thu May 17, 2012 9:24 am 
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mogosoup wrote:
They guy I'm staying with is a minor member of the communist party, so maybe he gets special privileges or something.


He might be sent to a re-education camp if he harbors capitalist lackeys who make puns about Chairman Mao's accomplishments :lol:

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Offline mogosoup
 Post subject: Re: Huge Leap Forward
Post #7 Posted: Thu May 17, 2012 4:03 pm 
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Joaz Banbeck wrote:
mogosoup wrote:
They guy I'm staying with is a minor member of the communist party, so maybe he gets special privileges or something.


He might be sent to a re-education camp if he harbors capitalist lackeys who make puns about Chairman Mao's accomplishments :lol:


Well actually they don't even praise Mao too much anymore. He's frowned upon for causing the cultural revolution.

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Offline SoDesuNe
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Post #8 Posted: Thu May 17, 2012 11:55 pm 
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Tell that to the thousands of people waiting long hours under the bare sun to catch a glimpse of Mao's preserved body on the Tiananmen Square ; )

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Offline mogosoup
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Post #9 Posted: Fri May 18, 2012 1:54 pm 
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SoDesuNe wrote:
Tell that to the thousands of people waiting long hours under the bare sun to catch a glimpse of Mao's preserved body on the Tiananmen Square ; )


Mostly ignorant country folk. Most educated people know what happened. :salute:

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Offline kex
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Post #10 Posted: Sat May 19, 2012 2:48 am 
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Joaz Banbeck wrote:
He might be sent to a re-education camp if he harbors capitalist lackeys who make puns about Chairman Mao's accomplishments :lol:


Is this a politics forum?
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Offline mogosoup
 Post subject: Re: Huge Leap Forward Going to China to play Go
Post #11 Posted: Sat May 26, 2012 10:27 pm 
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I wonder how much I'll improve after 2 months of constant playing, studying and training.

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Offline SoDesuNe
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Post #12 Posted: Sun May 27, 2012 1:37 am 
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It's just two months so don't get your hopes up too high. I think the important thing is to learn something fundamental there (something western Go maybe often lacks), which helps you pass all the ranks from thereon.

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Offline mogosoup
 Post subject: Re: Huge Leap Forward Going to China to play Go
Post #13 Posted: Fri Jun 08, 2012 4:40 pm 
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My blog can be found http://ayko1.wordpress.com/.
I leave tomorrow.

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Offline cdybeijing
 Post subject: Re: Huge Leap Forward Going to China to play Go
Post #14 Posted: Fri Jun 08, 2012 6:24 pm 
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My blog can be found http://ayko1.wordpress.com/.
I leave tomorrow.


Unfortunately that website will be blocked, so I hope you do get the VPN access.

Which city are you headed to - I think you mentioned it in another thread.
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Offline mogosoup
 Post subject: Re: Huge Leap Forward Going to China to play Go
Post #15 Posted: Fri Jun 08, 2012 7:50 pm 
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Ah crap!. do you know any VPNs that I can use?

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Offline mogosoup
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Post #16 Posted: Sat Jun 09, 2012 1:53 am 
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I ended up just hosting my own blog on my own website. my blog can be found at [url]Aaronko.net[/url]

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