The hyperbolic time chamber

[1986]

I didn't find anobody in denver to play a live game with
i left before the weekend and the other two go clubs met on sasturday & sunday; so i missed them

i was so busy up there i didn't even get a chance to check igolocal!

At first i was sad and then i thought, so what! 
it is still a fun game and i hardly play live games anyway, & there is always the congress so one day ill use my go board for something besides studying lol

well after my brief week off
i have jumped back into my tsumego program
it took a while to get the rust off but im
running smoothly again currently
im on the 5k set on smartgo
these problems are pretty straightforward
im not doing as bad i thought i was
i still solve 20 a day perfectly
so if i miss one it does not count
i got through 38 wrong to get 20 perfect today to give you a idea
of where im at


im kneee deep in my maklovitch game, 
im working out variations like crazy lol
i think after the game and i go through it again
and reading everything wrote
i will have alot of good study material

im not playing as much online as i ususally do
i have been playing DGS though, 
its works good with my schedule right now
its so easy to keep up with 
 
i have been into pro games lately, i do alot of 
commented games on smartgo books, and play guess the next move on my phone in my spare time

i have been reading go world
the 20 kyu to shodan articles
its just me and my go board
working out the diagrams

the korean innovations in joeski are pretty interesting also

IMO GWA is to expensive to buy and dont use i gotta get my money's worth out of my go stuff, thats been my attitude lately, i got alot of stuff

i got a encylopedia worth of info on go and i still shop online
for new stuff, (sounds silly but its true)

one thing im going to do is to stop spending money on my go education
until i reach shodan

i bought alot of stuff so far and its untouched or unfinished

i.e.:
books
software
equipment
lectures
pdf's

im not buying anything else until i read all the stuff i got
and that could take about 6 months

i gotta stop the bad habit of shopping online becuase i always see some cool stuff, and its only 30 bucks, but eventually that adds up to 600 bucks in my case

eh, i still might buy GOGOD,
that will be the last thing i swear lol


well thats pretty much the jist of it
ill check back later

my study plan is
 
tsumego
pro games
serious games w/ review
reading anything go related 

[1986]

Ah it feels like my go life is in shambles but as I sit in front my go board I still get that warm feeling inside *motivation*

I'm angry at myself because I don't have all the time in the world to devote to my go like I use to

I haven't been on KGS in so long or wbaduk I have been on my phone nothing is wrong with the phone
But I miss sitting at the computer for hours just studying and reviewing

I am so busy nowadays ever since summer break from school. my schedule is ridiculous *it use to be the opposite way around*

now I'm working on getting a job and taking trade classes on the side and just day to day life arrgh!

now I see why all the older guys can't study as much and play 20 games a day

Thank God for my phone I got
games, tsumego & books for on the go Go

I'm steady on my tsumego I'm redoing the 5 kyu set again my ratio is alot better this time around and I'm starting to not be so scared of them lol

Anyway I still watch a lectures from the Internet go school everyday except for when Im out of town

I use to watch them at night but It's working out a lot better to watch them in the morning before I leave the house

I haven't got back to my go world in a few days but I still get a article in when I can

My maklovitch game is keeping me thinking, it's great I never thought it would be this fun, I should have played one earlier.

Besides that I'm in love with pro games
since I have been reading so many smart books with commentary when I replay a game without commentary I can get my own meaning out of the moves.

*Pro game are so beautiful *

At Least after I start working I can put some money aside for lessons

I read somewhere " professionals have coaches amateurs don't " it made me laugh at first and then it made me think

L19 is great though I appreciate how u guys got me this far by just being there to answer my question and check my thinking
It really helped me a lot u guys are like free coaching

It's peaceful in the house right now so I'm going to take advantage of it and get a few good games in c ya around buddy

[1986]

I been on a crazy loosing streak i even got kicked down to 10k KGS
My ol lady bought a android so you already know i put KGS on it
now i got a iphone and a android in my reach -HA HA HA HA HA- *evil villan laugh*

at first i lost my first few games on time
becasue i  kept tapping the screen instead of hitting confrim lol

im so use to tesuki & orobaduk tap zoom

and then i starting hitting confirm and sometimes it lags, it was getting on my nerves

but this is day two im use to it now

i feel sorry for the android guys the go app selection is eh 
but that means its time for some good progammers to take advantage of the wide open market and make some good quality stuff

now that im use to the controls i like the KGS app and i have her phone all the time now lol

it comes with a KGS plus subriction for two months so im gonna get on top of that i never had kgs plus before, so this will be interesting

but im anrgy at my loosing streak *angry is not the word* , i has me playing alot more on kgs though, -it is better to lose to a worthy opponent than it is to squash a bug- 33 strategies of War Robert Greene

i have been thinking about how its easy for kyu players to improve but the get caught up in bad habits and they cant see them 
becasue they are winning games aginst other plays with bad habits
so the think the bad habit is acceptable

everything is suppose to be so basic but we make things harder on ourself by thinking is complicated, like we have to be able to read 20 moves ahead or memorize comlplicated joseki

reading how not to play go makes me hate being a kyu player,

im delcaring war on the kyu mentality literally.

but all i can do is what i have been doing, i just need to more of it
beacuse its not enough

live games
tsumego
review 
and study pro games

speaking of pro games Gou's internet go school has alot of good pro game reviews, they are motivating

besides that i just gotta stick with the basics fundamentals because obvoiusly im missing something, 

one thing about it though, i never was lazy and i can't start getting lazy now, so i know imma make it out of the kyu ranks, my new goal is to play 1,000 good quality focused games, that should take care of that

i lost to many games by not paying attention  

imma keep going over the fundamentals and doing tsumego and getting reviews

see u at the top

[1986]

I have been working on my 1000 games

I'm getting my confidence back up and my rank graph is moving back up to 9k!

I was wondering what was going on for a minute

But I came to the conclusion that I just gotta play more games , my studying is good and my reading is par but I'm lacking in the ranked games department. I was getting frustrated but I played through it.

Like the track coach says walk it off!

I use to use KGS for serious even games only
And play more wbaduk now it's reverse and my KGS account is the most active right now.


I'm getting more KGS in on my lady's phone
I have it all the time

KGS plus is pretty cool
lectures by pros & teaching games personally I wanna play in a tournament.
Maybe next time!

Time is starting to get more attractive than sleep.

I have been doing my daily tsumego
20 a day counting the ones i get correct the first try n now I'm on the 4k set On the smartgo pro iPhone app

I'm working out in the test room again on wbaduk I'm starting from the bottom going for 90% to pass each level in 100 question sessions. In on the first level *because of dumb mistakes 86% * but it's helping me with my perfectionism in reading


Also I'm watching lectures on Joseki in Gou's internet go school *5 stars *

My reading includes the go world And smartgo books

I want to memorize some pro games but I just don't know where to begin

I might go by favorite pro or most beautiful games ... It's nothing immediate but it's something I have been thinking about

My birthdays is coming up
And I want

1.gogod - ha that looks funny games of go on disk

2.Robert Jaseiks Joseki books vol 1&2 - I like to have sets-

3.Crazy stone - perfect for no Internet situations

My ol lady is getting me one of these so I got my fingers crossed * come on all 3!*

Hanging out on KGS I over-read in a chat on a game

That a 8 Dan player was taking the pro exam this year and I thought to myself
Wow 8 Dan KGS is strong

Why isn't he 9 Dan I thought and I guess somebody heard me and they said something about it but everybody agreed KGS 9 Dan is is at least 1p

Well i'm off c u at the top

[1986]

its difficult for me to play my best every game
epically with me playing so many games going for my 1000 quality games goal

im beginning to notice
the majority of my mistakes are caused by not paying attention
and being frustrated

i play my best in a relaxed quite atmosphere on the computer

on the phone its more easy going laid back games and my opponents often are more focused and sharper than me and i can tell because im losing alot , i try to pick good times to play to counter that but as soon as i get in a game something comes up. i can watch other people play all day but as soon as i get a game the phone rings

i got bumped down to 11 kyu and what is funny, i was like this is some bull- played a game with a 12 kyu and he smashed me
i was like- what is going on.

my emotional reaction was not constructive so i adopted a more constructive attitude - just keep playing more games

and i took something good from this losing streak

trials and tribulations build character in real life and on the go board, so I'm going to just play my way back up its a little bit further down now, but hey- that's life. you adopt or whine like a pig.


go is a reflection of you and if you are not calm and in the best state of mind your not going to play your best

when your playing via phone your not going to be as focused as if you were playing at home on a computer with nothing to do

im still going to play alot of games im not going to change that
but while im doing it im going to be more aware of not taking my time and taking to much time i hate the 30 sec sd i gotta worry about lag and the 3g networks are not that hot .

tsumego has been good to me lol im on the 4k set,

im keeping a positive mental attitude- off to work

[stalkor]

i'm wondering who that 12k was, maybe he wasnt a 12k at all, mind posting that game?

Kgs has a lot of sandbaggers so maybe you encountered one.

Playing lots of games is good and yeah you're probably right that paying attention is vital to playing a good game, just remember that every move is equally important and you will do fine:)

[1986]

no problem its embarrassing but here is the game

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i think i ranked him up this game I'm not sure but here it is

u gotta bear with my horrible play i was not at my best

every time i look at this game it makes me want to pay more attention to what I'm doing

[jts]

1986, don't be afraid to just capture the dang stone once in a while. (N14, H4, P6...)

[stalkor]

It seems you have a lot of shape problems, here is my comments on the game, hope you learn a bit from it:)

btw it wasnt a sandbagger, sorry:)

edit: and congratz on your bday!:)

[sgf-full]http://www.lifein19x19.com/forum/download/file.php?id=1000[/sgf-full]

[1986]

thank you for the review the variations where excellent!

*I Hate Missing Kills*

[Tryphon]

At 10k, you forget to kill killable groups
At 8k, you try to kill unkillable groups. It's worse

[1986]

3 areas of focus
Test room wbaduk
Replay pro games
Play 1000 games

I'm still on the smartgo 4k tsumego these are not much harder than the 5k same patterns basically 

in getting use to playing everyday any time when I can't  play in watching games so I am also becoming fans of some of the high-dans in KGS, it's growing on me I'm on KGS all the time now,
KGS plus rocks so much info
So little time  

I try to go over a pro game everyday after work on my board
With smartgo books it's helpful and motivating because I play games right after

I'm going to be doing some work out of town so it's about time to get a laptop 

The main thing I have been out of touch with is the test room on the wbaduk homepage I use to do it all the time but I have been busy, I gotta remind myself to do it regularly so it can become a habit 

I'm doing good with my other habits I.e.  smartgo tsumego sets, smartbooks pro games, 
Live games

Now that I'm not going down in rank no more i can get back to studying, I had to fight the rust off my game lol, 

taking breaks from live games and just studying and doing tsumego got me out my groove, but now I got my mojo back,

 it was me mainly not paying attention and the emotional tension from losing streaks it was very destructive to my game

Something that help me was reading hushfields journal and he says something like staying calm and thinking clear, it reminded me of the zen lectures I was reading, and to grow naturally in my go like a tree by a river

On the American side I can hear the football coach saying stop being a $&#% and walk it off, so I think playing through my losing streak helped to 

I'm going to the test room see ya 

I'll post my results I'm thinking of doing 100 questions per session passing will be 95% starting from the ground up, anybody who wants to do it with me post your results here, I like the competition 

Well back to the program 

[1986]

wbaduk test room 50 questions 19-25k easy set 71.4%

does anybody know how many questions are in the sets in the test room?

[1986]

Im always on Yoo Chang hyuk's Life and death classes and its just plain ol fun!

if you pay attention to the yoo changhyuk's ranking of life and death
im number 43 at 28552 Points and climbing!

thats been my tsumego vent, the wbaduk homepage has been pretty buggy lately, it was going to be my tsumego vent,maybe its becasue of this new windows 7 because it worked fine on my xp; but im having too much fun doing yoo's tsumego so i don't mind, i like getting my score up

im going through Breathrough attacking power by Yamashita Keigo, i already finished catching scent of victory and the way of creating a thick and strong game, so im enjoying going though the heart of go series n smartgo books, i play the games out on the actual board and use auto play for varations- makes for a smooth review and exciting play by play battle

i play mainly on kgs, i just downloaded tygem yesterday that makes the only other go seerver on my laptop, mon - thurs is really slow as far as time to study because of work, but im redidcating myself to play at least 3 games a day

i do tsumego everyday apps make it fun and easy to do no matter where you are at!

i just wont be able to study pro games until i get to my go board on friday, i can watch lectures to make up for it but i have been watching lectures all last week between kgsplus and internetgoschool im pooped! Besides i need to play more, just play more go has the most votes in the improvement poll on this thread and i been slacking

so after my 3 games if i have time i will watch a lecture

i strongly belive im improving, i have to remind myself in games to think about influence, direction, invasion, enclosing and all kinds of stuff but when i play my best game i feel 3 stones stronger, practice makes perfect


my main 3 things i focused on is

1.tsumego
2.playing 1000 quality games
3.study pro kifu

[Simba]

Have you played on Tygem yet ? How are you finding it, if so?