A beginner's journal of little interest

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schultz wrote:
skydyr wrote:As an irrelevant note, the k in afk stands for keyboard.

I'm glad somebody said it. Otherwise it would have annoyed me all day long! ;)

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I just found myself looking for the kibitz text field in that diagram for adding my wise guy comment about this :-D
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All in all I consider it a healthy thing when anyone spends less time on the internet, but do Boidhre's go-playing cronies know how he's doing? I hope he hasn't quit go! :o
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jts wrote:All in all I consider it a healthy thing when anyone spends less time on the internet, but do Boidhre's go-playing cronies know how he's doing? I hope he hasn't quit go! :o


Hey jts, the depression I was in (on and off since November) got worse in late December and amongst other things I lost interest in go. I haven't been posting as each week it's a case of "maybe next week my interest will come back and I can make a happy post" but that hasn't happened yet. At the moment, while I haven't decided to quit go, I have no interest in playing it. I still keep an eye on this forum though and pop along to the odd go meeting.
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Ah well - didn't want you to think you were forgotten. Here's hoping for the best.
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Hope to see you back on form soon! I miss our exciting games ;)
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I'm back I think. The depression that started in November and resulted in me steadily losing interest (and pleasure in) go has finally abated. My interests are returning broadly and the mental fog has been lifting. I've been playing a bit, I'm rusty and somewhat weaker than I was but I don't mind that. I started doing tsumego again for a while before bed each night a few weeks ago, I've not been drilling them properly or anything just doing easy ones at my leisure and honestly just hoping the enjoyment of doing them not fading (Graded Go Problems Vol. 2 and similar). For the next while I'm just going to play a game or two in the evening after the kids have gone to sleep, fit some tsumego in where I've a chance (fun!) and maybe play out some pro games from one of the John Fairbairn books on SmartGo (purely for pleasure, I doubt they'll make me stronger).

It's nice to be back and feeling pleasure playing the game again. :)
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Glad you're feeling better. :D
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Re: A beginner's journal of little interest

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So 4ish months since I posted a game, I might as well start off with one where I did something particularly dumb. I'm enjoying myself at the moment, if depression is good for one thing it is when it's over you really do appreciate the little moments of happiness in the day. I had a lot of fun last night playing go with my son, he beat me with 4 stones on 9x9 which is good since he hasn't played any go in months.


I added some comments and a couple of variations to this game, just to get back into the habit of thinking about my games when reviewing them. I hope you can join me in laughing at the error I made. :D



Edit: Updated sgf, turns out I did something wrong and the GoWrite board markings didn't come through.
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Re: A beginner's journal of little interest

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Thank you Ed, a possible inane question: :)

You recommended a very large knight's move from the 4,4 stone as a pincer. I'm really unsure as to how to deal with the following and this causes me to rule out such moves (I did consider this move but rejected it due to not knowing how to handle :w3:).

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[go]$$W
$$ | . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
$$ | . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
$$ | . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
$$ | . . . 4 . . . . . . . . . . . X . . . |
$$ | . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
$$ | . . . X . . . . . , . . . O . X . . . |
$$ | . . . . . 3 . 2 . 1 . . . . . . . . . |
$$ | . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
$$ | . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
$$ ---------------------------------------[/go]


My initial thoughts are:


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[go]$$W
$$ | . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
$$ | . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
$$ | . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
$$ | . . . X . 5 . . 4 . . . . . . X . . . |
$$ | . . . . . . . . . 6 . . . . . . . . . |
$$ | . . . X . . 1 . 2 3 . . . O . X . . . |
$$ | . . . . . O . X . O . . . . . . . . . |
$$ | . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
$$ | . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
$$ ---------------------------------------[/go]


This looks ok for black.

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[go]$$W
$$ | . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
$$ | . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
$$ | . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
$$ | . . . X . . . . . . . . . . . X . . . |
$$ | . . . . . . . 6 . . . . . . . . . . . |
$$ | . . . X . . 2 1 4 , . . . O . X . . . |
$$ | . . . . . O 3 X 5 O . . . . . . . . . |
$$ | . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
$$ | . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
$$ ---------------------------------------[/go]


This I don't like as much, but I don't know many variations for this three space extension.
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Boidhre wrote:This I don't like as much...
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[go]$$W
$$ | . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
$$ | . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
$$ | . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
$$ | . . . X . . . . . . . . . . . X . . . |
$$ | . . . . . . . 6 . . . . . . . . . . . |
$$ | . . . X . . 2 1 4 , . . . O . X . . . |
$$ | . . . . . O 3 X 5 O . . . . . . . . . |
$$ | . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
$$ | . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
$$ ---------------------------------------[/go]
B ponnuki in sente! B is so happy. This is one reason the attach :w1: is (often) not good for W.
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EdLee wrote:B ponnuki in sente! B is so happy. This is one reason the attach :w1: is (often) not good for W.


It's a ponnuki in atari, I really have no idea how to handle those. :)
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Re: A beginner's journal of little interest

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Welcome back! Shodan in no time. :)

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Bill Spight wrote:Welcome back! Shodan in no time. :)


Thank you for the review. Shodan in no time? Hah! :)
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