Abyssinica's Study Journal

Abyssinica · Post by **Abyssinica** » Thu May 01, 2014 6:40 pm

1 May 2014

*Did problems 446-475 out of Cho Chikun's elementary.
*Read a little bit out of shape up
*Went over game #4 in Invincible.
*Watched Nick Sibicky Go Lecture #52 - Where to Play in the Opening

Man, I feel like I'll have the time to finish Cho Chikun's elementary tommorow. :lol:

Abyssinica · Post by **Abyssinica** » Fri May 02, 2014 8:14 pm

2 May 2014

*Did problems 476-500 out of elementary
*Read a bit out of A&D and Direction

Too lazy to bold on this phone.

Abyssinica · Post by **Abyssinica** » Sat May 03, 2014 6:10 pm

3 May 2014
*Did problems 501-521 in Cho Chikun's elementary
*Went over game #5 in Invincible

No time to study go today. I got home at 17:00 and was tired. Couldn't even concentrate on reading.

lbalddy · Post by **lbalddy** » Sun May 04, 2014 12:53 pm

How many stones have you improved??

Abyssinica · Post by **Abyssinica** » Sun May 04, 2014 1:05 pm

lbalddy wrote:How many stones have you improved??

Rated games I have played since I started this thread:
http://i.imgur.com/gPLFveM.png

Rank graph with the red line approximating the 20th of April:

http://i.imgur.com/wh4t7Ts.png

I wish there was a timg function on this site.

Abyssinica · Post by **Abyssinica** » Sun May 04, 2014 6:02 pm

4 May 2014
*Did problems 522-545 in Cho Chikun's elementary
*Went over game #6 in Invincible
*Played a game against a 3k and won a ranked game.
*Went over a Fujisawa Shuko vs Hashimoto Utaro game to 55 moves with a 5k. I think it was as much indepth as I could go.
You can't really read the comments in sequential order but they're there.

*Watched Bat's KGS Series - 02 - 4kyu + Ina!

Abyssinica · Post by **Abyssinica** » Mon May 05, 2014 5:49 pm

5 May 2014
*Did problems 546-576 in Cho Chikun's elementary
*Went over game #7 in Invincible
*Watched Bat's Lecture Series - Oct 19th - Take Turns.

I ordered a new book yesterday. I know I should be re-reading the ones I have but still, they tend to get stale.

Abyssinica · Post by **Abyssinica** » Tue May 06, 2014 6:09 pm

6 May 2014

*Did problems 577-600 in Cho Chikun's elementary
*Went over game #8 in Invincible
*Played this game against an aga 1d (Online he doesn't think as hard as is 5k. Or so he claims) I got a review afterwards, and even though I resigned when the difference was sub 20 points, there were a lot of places I could've kept A lead. Or less of a behind-ness. Here's the review-sgf. In-game chat is mixed with review chat.

*Read the entirety of direction of play - State standardised testing. Finished a 4 hour test in one hour and, well... :roll:

EdLee · Post by **EdLee** » Tue May 06, 2014 8:25 pm

Hi Abyssinica, very serious problems with broken shapes.
- :b27:

, terrible. Broken shape.
- :b37:

,

, terrible. Broken shape.
- :b43:

, see Toothpaste .
- :black:

129, terrible. Broken shape.

Abyssinica · Post by **Abyssinica** » Tue May 06, 2014 9:26 pm

In essence: Stop trying to be fancy and make less broken shapes. :tmbup:

Black 43 was what I intended to do though because it looked like it makes my moyo bigger and I can live on the other side, so I went for it. Black 27 was from a willingness of not wanting to tenuki or break proverbs "Pushing from behind" At black 129, I planned to play m14 anyways and thought I could use some extra strength(? Even though it's still 4 to 4 liberties).

EdLee · Post by **EdLee** » Tue May 06, 2014 11:22 pm

Abyssinica wrote:Black 27 was from a willingness of not wanting to tenuki or break proverbs "Pushing from behind"

Not sure what you mean.
That "proverb" is a huge trap; I fell into it many times.
:b27:

has nothing to do with pushing from behind, and neither does the correct block S10 --
that "proverb" has nothing to do with the local situation; huge misunderstanding.

EdLee · Post by **EdLee** » Tue May 06, 2014 11:31 pm

Abyssinica wrote:Black 43 was what I intended to do though because it looked like it makes my moyo bigger and I can live on the other side, so I went for it.

makes a Toothpaste and hurts your D12 group. G12 instead is better.

Abyssinica wrote:At black 129, I planned to play m14 anyways and thought I could use some extra strength

129 is completely wrong. It does the opposite: you hurt yourself, you make yourself weaker, you make W stronger, and you make your local shape worse.

Abyssinica · Post by **Abyssinica** » Wed May 07, 2014 5:02 pm

7 May 2014

And I will repeat to myself 10,000 times, "Do not create broken shapes." When I eat I will tell myself not to do this. When I shower I will sing this. When I play with legos I will not make them.

*Did problems 601-616 in Cho Chikun's elementary
*Went over game #8 in Invincible
*Watched Nick Sibicky Go Lecture #23 - Utilizing Thickness

Still waiting on my book to come in; the tracking thing from GGG says to expect it by the 7th of May, but they always lie. :sad:

Also I'm completely sick of Life and death problems and should've probably bought Get strong at Tesuji or something else rather than Endgame. I looked at a random XuanXuan Qijing problem and I swear it was in Cho Chikun's elementary. Sadly I can't find the problem number at the moment.

EdLee · Post by **EdLee** » Wed May 07, 2014 5:06 pm

Abyssinica wrote:And I will repeat to myself 10,000 times, "Do not create broken shapes."

You missed the very important "bad."
Later, you'll learn there are, as always in Go, broken shapes
that are correct and even good, even pro-level broken shapes.

Go is so deep.

See Post #2 of this thread.

Abyssinica · Post by **Abyssinica** » Wed May 07, 2014 5:13 pm

Likely at this level it's okay as a rule of thumb to just not do it until you can see ways in which they are good, I think. Just like the "Don't create empty triangles" pseudo-proverb. Yes, I have found a few good empty triangles, but they're moves I have to think about and I do not just create them at random just because. (Most of the time, hopefully.)

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