SoDesuNe paves his road to Shodan

SoDesuNe · **#221**

Seven game losing streak. Oh my!

daal · **#222**

I recently lost 6 in a row on one account, but I followed it up by winning 11 of my next 15 and ranking up

Good luck!

SoDesuNe · **#223**

Thank you!
I had a ten game winning streak before ^^ It will go up again, I'm sure. I guess all the tactical problems right now led to a rising unappreciation of the gloabl context. I'm too focussed on spotting Tesujis and killing/attacking my opponent that I forget about my own groups.
In one game I killed almost one third of the board. Then we went for a mutual destruction of frameworks and I cut his group and saw that he couldn't get two eyes. Well he cut me back and he had like ten more liberties than my group did, killing almost half of the board : D

SoDesuNe · **#224**

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Book               1. Run (correctly solved [%])      2. Run                     3. Run                     4. Run (four months later)
YCH Tesuji 1     //     116 / 123 [94%]      |      98 / 123 [80%]      |     115 / 123 [93%]      |     111 / 123 [90%]      
YCH Tesuji 2     //     119 / 123 [97%]      |     107 / 123 [87%]      |     118 / 123 [96%]      |     - dropped out -
YCH Tesuji 3     //      97 / 123 [79%]      |      97 / 123 [79%]      |     107 / 123 [87%]      |     101 / 123 [82%] 
YCH Tesuji 4     //     119 / 123 [97%]      |     120 / 123 [98%]      |     - dropped out -      |     - dropped out -
YCH Tesuji 5     //      75 / 123 [61%]      |

YCH Tsumego 1    //     121 / 123 [98%]      |     115 / 123 [93%]      |     120 / 123 [98%]      |     - dropped out -
YCH Tsumego 2    //     110 / 123 [89%]      |     113 / 123 [92%]      |     115 / 123 [93%]      |     113 / 123 [92%]
YCH Tsumego 3    //     101 / 123 [82%]      |     105 / 123 [85%]      |     114 / 123 [93%]      |     108 / 123 [88%]
YCH Tsumego 4    //      69 / 123 [56%]      |      74 / 123 [60%]      |      92 / 123 [75%]      |

GS Opening       //        n/a               |     131 / 175 [75%]      |     144 / 175 [82%]      |     149 / 175 [85%]      
501 Opening      //        n/a               |     340 / 501 [68%]      |     372 / 501 [74%]      |

Still above average score for YCH Tsumego vol. 3. Not much else to tell.

YCH Tesuji vol. 5 is next.

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SoDesuNe · **#225**

A commented game of mine I played recently. In the end I lost due to time constraints but the biggest mistakes were already made.

SoDesuNe · **#226**

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Book               1. Run (correctly solved [%])      2. Run                     3. Run                     4. Run (*four months later*)
YCH Tesuji 1     //     116 / 123 [94%]      |      98 / 123 [80%]      |     115 / 123 [93%]      |     111 / 123 [90%]      
YCH Tesuji 2     //     119 / 123 [97%]      |     107 / 123 [87%]      |     118 / 123 [96%]      |     - dropped out -
YCH Tesuji 3     //      97 / 123 [79%]      |      97 / 123 [79%]      |     107 / 123 [87%]      |     101 / 123 [82%] 
YCH Tesuji 4     //     119 / 123 [97%]      |     120 / 123 [98%]      |     - dropped out -      |     - dropped out -
YCH Tesuji 5     //      75 / 123 [61%]      |     *85 / 123 [69%]*     | 

YCH Tsumego 1    //     121 / 123 [98%]      |     115 / 123 [93%]      |     120 / 123 [98%]      |     - dropped out -
YCH Tsumego 2    //     110 / 123 [89%]      |     113 / 123 [92%]      |     115 / 123 [93%]      |     113 / 123 [92%]
YCH Tsumego 3    //     101 / 123 [82%]      |     105 / 123 [85%]      |     114 / 123 [93%]      |     108 / 123 [88%]
YCH Tsumego 4    //      69 / 123 [56%]      |      74 / 123 [60%]      |      92 / 123 [75%]      |

GS Opening       //        n/a               |     131 / 175 [75%]      |     144 / 175 [82%]      |     149 / 175 [85%]      
501 Opening      //        n/a               |     340 / 501 [68%]      |     372 / 501 [74%]      |

YCH Tesuji vol. 5 was kind of an up and down. Several problems I had seen already (many times), so I could breeze through them. Others were unsolvable for me ^^ And a lot of variation mistakes of course.
Still quite happy that I could solve more problems than on the first try.

YCH L&D vol. 4 is next.

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And another commented game of mine:

I'm very bad with handling weak stones/groups and profitting from an attack :o

SoDesuNe · **#227**

Oh my, oh my. I must be really getting tremendously strong, as in "before results show you often play worse". I rarely play as bad and make as many "simple" mistakes as these days.

1/7,000,000,000 · **#228**

SO SoDesuNe are you a solid 1d and if so when did you first reach the rank?

SoDesuNe · **#229**

I'm not 1-dan on KGS anymore : ( I burst through the 1-dan barrier in early September, went halfway to 2-dan, then dropped to 1-kyu, rose back to 1-dan and dropped to 1-kyu again ^^

I first reached 1-dan - as a rank on KGS - years ago, I think in November 2011 was the first time but I dropped back to around 2-kyu shortly after that. In March 2012, I reached 1-dan again and could hold it a while but utlimatively dropped to 1-kyu after around a douzen games. After that I dropped to 2-kyu as well, got back to 1-kyu fairly quickly, got demoted to 2-kyu again... (yaddayadda)

What keeps my spirit up is that I'm doing better and better with my Tsumego/Tesuji studies. I get faster and more correctly solved problems overall. It's a bit sad that this does not seem to show in my games but well, I'll keep going for now and maybe everything will sort itself out =) (Maybe I'm going to show some games for review since I can't get hold of my usual Sempai : ) )

SoDesuNe · **#230**

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Book               1. Run (correctly solved [%])      2. Run                     3. Run                     4. Run (*four months later*)
YCH Tesuji 1     //     116 / 123 [94%]      |      98 / 123 [80%]      |     115 / 123 [93%]      |     111 / 123 [90%]      
YCH Tesuji 2     //     119 / 123 [97%]      |     107 / 123 [87%]      |     118 / 123 [96%]      |     - dropped out -
YCH Tesuji 3     //      97 / 123 [79%]      |      97 / 123 [79%]      |     107 / 123 [87%]      |     101 / 123 [82%] 
YCH Tesuji 4     //     119 / 123 [97%]      |     120 / 123 [98%]      |     - dropped out -      |     - dropped out -
YCH Tesuji 5     //      75 / 123 [61%]      |     *85 / 123 [69%]*     | 

YCH Tsumego 1    //     121 / 123 [98%]      |     115 / 123 [93%]      |     120 / 123 [98%]      |     - dropped out -
YCH Tsumego 2    //     110 / 123 [89%]      |     113 / 123 [92%]      |     115 / 123 [93%]      |     113 / 123 [92%]
YCH Tsumego 3    //     101 / 123 [82%]      |     105 / 123 [85%]      |     114 / 123 [93%]      |     108 / 123 [88%]
YCH Tsumego 4    //      69 / 123 [56%]      |      74 / 123 [60%]      |      92 / 123 [75%]      |     *89 / 123 [72%]*      

GS Opening       //        n/a               |     131 / 175 [75%]      |     144 / 175 [82%]      |     149 / 175 [85%]      
501 Opening      //        n/a               |     340 / 501 [68%]      |     372 / 501 [74%]      |

72% for YCH Tsumego vol. 4, a bit worse than the last time but I personally feel I'm getting faster in spotting but remain bad in reading the relevant variations : D

Something different is next: 501 Opening Problems!

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~~YCH Tesuji vol. 1~~

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~~YCH L&D vol. 2~~

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~~Get Strong at the Opening~~

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~~YCH Tesuji vol. 3~~

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logan · **#231**

At your level I had opposite strengths. I had hardship scoring on the opening problems, but picked up the tesuji problems naturally :lol:

Maybe it had something to do with the way I was categorizing the tesuji in my head, but had difficulty finding a similar method for the opening problems.

Let me know when you get started on 1000 Weiqi Problems. If I have the time, then I'll join you. It's a fun book

(Maybe some other people will like to join us.)

SoDesuNe · **#232**

I already decided that this is the last cycle with opening problems for now. Although I'm far away from my goal to reach a score of 95% in the relevant books, I can't help but feel it's a bit pointless since my - in my opinion - more glaring weaknesses are Tesujis as in making shape and fighting. Maybe I'll compose an all-out Tesuji cycle. We will see : )

I'll gladly let you know, when I start with 1000 Weiqi Problems! Should be fun =)

RBerenguel · **#233**

Let me know when you start with Segoe/Seigen's Tesuji... I guess you'll be doing B and C? Or will you also try A? At my current level I can do (and not perfectly) C level problems, and kind of find the first few moves of some B problems, so I'll only join you for the C ones

SoDesuNe · **#234**

Sure : )
Yeah, I will stick with C and B right now. I tried A, too, the last time but I needed more than ten minutes for one problem and that tells me, I'm not strong enough yet =D

rouyakun · **#235**

As long as you are consistent with your studies, you should keep on improving although the results might not show up immediately - is what I believe. (How I wish I was consistent too but meh...)

What's this segoe tesuji dictionary btw? Is it a book of sorts? Looks interesting.

SoDesuNe · **#236**

Ha ha ha, yeah, that's the way it normaly goes : D

Here you can find a bit more about the books: http://senseis.xmp.net/?SegoeTesujiDictionary I only hear praise for them.

RBerenguel · **#237**

SoDesuNe wrote:

Ha ha ha, yeah, that's the way it normaly goes : D

Here you can find a bit more about the books: http://senseis.xmp.net/?SegoeTesujiDictionary I only hear praise for them.

Bougth the three-pack from Yutopian, and couldn't be happier. A very good price and incredibly game-like problems. I even made a half-board in leather (I posted a picture in my study journal a while ago) to have one of these problems always at hand

SoDesuNe · **#238**

So, I finished Final Summit today! It took me quite longer than I expected but it sadly took also quite some time to find a quiet hour for some quality Go time.
I plan to repeat the book right away and look forward to the excellent commentary of the ten-game-match (the seven 3-game-matches are a little sparsely commentated). If I had to compare the games to those in Games of Shuei, I must say, I find them way more complex and deep. But maybe this is due to the comparable strength between Go and Takagawa. I had the feeling (and the text supports it) that Shuei was without a peer in his later life.

I already solved 360 problems from 501 Opening problems and I think, I still learn a lot with every run. The easier some problems get, the more I see in other problems - really interesting =)
Maybe I will not throw out the opening problems after all but reduce the Tsumego ones?

Luckily, I have quite some time to decide : )

SoDesuNe · **#239**

Ha ha ha, if you ever want prove how your mental state might affect your game then try to solve problems on e.g. goproblems.com while being agitated ^^

SoDesuNe · **#240**

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Book               1. Run (correctly solved [%])      2. Run                     3. Run                     4. Run (*four months later*)
YCH Tesuji 1     //     116 / 123 [94%]      |      98 / 123 [80%]      |     115 / 123 [93%]      |     111 / 123 [90%]      
YCH Tesuji 2     //     119 / 123 [97%]      |     107 / 123 [87%]      |     118 / 123 [96%]      |    - accomplished -      
YCH Tesuji 3     //      97 / 123 [79%]      |      97 / 123 [79%]      |     107 / 123 [87%]      |     101 / 123 [82%] 
YCH Tesuji 4     //     119 / 123 [97%]      |     120 / 123 [98%]      |    - accomplished -      |    - accomplished -      
YCH Tesuji 5     //      75 / 123 [61%]      |     *85 / 123 [69%]*     | 

YCH Tsumego 1    //     121 / 123 [98%]      |     115 / 123 [93%]      |     120 / 123 [98%]      |    - accomplished -      
YCH Tsumego 2    //     110 / 123 [89%]      |     113 / 123 [92%]      |     115 / 123 [93%]      |     113 / 123 [92%]
YCH Tsumego 3    //     101 / 123 [82%]      |     105 / 123 [85%]      |     114 / 123 [93%]      |     108 / 123 [88%]
YCH Tsumego 4    //      69 / 123 [56%]      |      74 / 123 [60%]      |      92 / 123 [75%]      |      89 / 123 [72%]      

GS Opening       //        n/a               |     131 / 175 [75%]      |     144 / 175 [82%]      |     149 / 175 [85%]      
501 Opening      //        n/a               |     340 / 501 [68%]      |     372 / 501 [74%]      |     387 / 501 [77%]

Again a little bit better in 501 Opening Problems than in the previous run(s).

I will start Go/Segeo Tesuji Dict. vol. 1 today (C and B problems). So, RBerenguel and anyone who wants to join, too: Have fun and good luck =)

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~~YCH Tesuji vol. 1~~

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~~Get Strong at the Opening~~

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~~YCH Tesuji vol. 3~~

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~~YCH Tesuji vol. 5~~

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~~YCH L&D vol. 4~~

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~~501 Opening Problems~~

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