The hyperbolic time chamber

[1986]

Tygem is great,
its just like wbaduk to me, wbaduk was my first love
Tygem has alot of people on 24/7 so its super easy to get a game going
thats the main reason i chose it to be my secondary server

i haven't been playing it as much as kgs though
ever since i got the kgs app i been on it
i have been watchin the kgs plus lectures,
and im addicted to growing my account

not to mention english is a big help

quick update

my tsumego is going great
im in 22th place in the rankings
on the yoo's life and death app

and i have been playing my 3 games a day after work

im going home tommrow so i will be next to my go board replaying some pro games, im still on breathrough attackin power by yamishta keigo

Go Dan!

[1986]

Well I have been sticking to my routine
My study plan is
1) Tsumego
2) Live games
3) Pro kifu

Tsumego:

Yoo Chang hyuk’s Life and death classes
Since I hit the advance 1 sections it’s a lot more challenging
Sometimes I even run out of time
But when I run out of time I just check the answer and then move on to the next problem

Sometimes when I’m in my zone I solve a lot of problems right my first try and that builds my confidence in my go

At first I was intimidated by the advance problems since they are like 7 stone sequences but when I pay attention and focus I’m doing pretty well, I’m glad I’m not sucking, & I’m actually holding my own in the advance section and I can feel it in my games my reading is sharper

I’m in 24th place with 94426 points on the global rankings

Live Games:

I have been trying to get 3 games in everyday, sometimes I only get one game depended on how good the game is

I joined the Kyu study group so now I can get more involved w/ group study and getting reviews from stronger players, they have a coaching system set up and I plan on taking advantage of it, they have skds there that help with teaching too & I hope to get more quality games and good reviews out of it

Hers a link: http://www.gokgs.com/help/Kyu_Study_Group.html

Pro Kifu:

I haven’t been on smartgo books in the last week but I have been making up with it w/ lectures from internetgoschool.com and kGS plus.

My free trail on KGS plus expired but I immediately renewed my subscription, I like the lectures and I want to fight for a crown

well i want a crown so i must get stronger

[1986]

Well I have been deep in my studying and it has been great
It feels like when you first start working out and you can see you six-pack coming in, it’s exciting!

My regime:
Tsumego
Pro kifu
Live games

For tsumego I have been going through Yoo’s life & death as explained in my prev. post
As far as my online ranking I’m in 24th place with 106770 points. So far I did a total of 1,500 problems. I only have 300 problems left & I’m on the last level which is advance 2.

For pro kifu- I’m big on lectures in kGS plus and the internet go school – I call it go TV
I also go through smartgo books; I’m still on breakthrough attacking power by Yamashita Keigo
I’m just taking my time soaking it all in.

Live games: KGS
It’s about time I rank-up lately it has been too easy at 10k, my rank graph is at the breaking point back to the 9k and my reading is much better even if I have to say so myself LOL

[1986]

Go is my game man,
I played in my first tournament today thanks to kGS plus,
I lost both games; I lost the second out of pure frustration
But losses equal growth and a chance to learn something
I got a good game review in the study room, and bounced backed
And learned that I gotta control my emotions better

I tapped out on Yoo’s life and death on the android
The advance 2 section is a beast
So I’m switching back to the iPhone for tsumego

I watch a lecture every day from the internet go school

I play at least one game daily on KGS or Tygem

Honestly I think I found out the secret to getting strong
If I could put it in a pill I would have
1.) Tsumego
2.) Live games & reviews
3.) Lectures
With game reviews & pro lessons in abundance & tsumego for downtime, u can’t help but to improve

So I’m pretty much done posting for the time being, when I hit 8k I will give u guys a update
A crown is within my reach so I got stuff to do
See u at the top
Everything I need to reach my goals is available, so there nothing else to do but go to work

[1986]

I made it to 8k hence me posting

(I made a vow not to post until I rank up)

I haven’t had that much time to play; I have just been watching lectures on internetgoschool.com and working.

Now that I have more time on my hands I can get more time invested in my go.

So my daily study regime now is

Lecture (KGS+)
Ranked Game – (KGS)
Tsumego (Wbaduk)
Ranked Game (KGS)
Lecture (internetgoschool.com)
Ranked Game (KGS)
Tsumego (Wbaduk)
Ranked Game (KGS)

also on the side i will be studying:
bruce wilcox's go dojo (contact fights and sector lines)
the go world archive,
and fundamental principles of go by Yilun Yang.

I might not be able to finish my list daily (Life happens) but that’s the process by which I will go about my study as long as I’m off work

Well as u can see I have work to do

I want the crown

[Dazz]

Congratulations! I am curious what audio go lectures you are doing as I have considered doing some of the lectures. Are you picking and choosing by what interests you or are you going through the step-by-step course?

[1986]

The best lectures from internetgoschool in my opinion are:

Middle game training and opening training:
first u download the sgf file complete the exercises, then watch the lecture

The correct way of using basic joseki-
it has awesome variations and IMO is a good overveiw of whole board thinking in joeski

all about the star point
i learned alot of new joseki here, its not boring like i thought joseki study would be

all about the 3-4 point
the 3-4 is aweome, after watching these u would love playing the 3-4 point, and a good way to punish weaker players mistakes in joseki

p.s. they got a whole section on punishing opponents mistakes under POM in joseki

all about attacking
i watched these first because i love attacking

all about invasion
ming jiu is amazing he has the most simple way to do everything

and invasion for kyu players
gou juan is more easier to understand than mingjiu so maybe check out these before u go on to ming jiu

and the direction of play lectures
direction of play gave me so many ideas i mean direction of play is key to winning any game

i really love the pro games
i.e. grandmaster games of go seigen
and koren master games of yi se-tol
the regulare pro games are good too

i could go on and on about internet go school

i started off with attacking and common openings like the chinese opening and the san ren sei but after that i just study where i see weakness in my game, so thats fundamentals & joseki,

using the lecture by level tab is good too

i hope that helps

[Dazz]

Thanks. You definitely have piqued my interest in some of these courses. I think the ones on middle game, attacking, and invading would interest me a lot.

[1986]

The coolest thing happened while i was doing tsumego on wbaduk under my alter ego Myoshu.

Svetlana 3DP asked me to play a game, & who couldn't turn down the opportunity to play a pro.

He was playing 3 games at once, and smashing everyone with brute force.

I was so amped i could run around the house full speed singing happy happy joy joy!

but no time for playing around, i had to sit and focus.

At first i wanted to play solid and then i remember something i read somewhere, (i read to much i cant remember where i read it) but its something like when playing handicap games your main goal should be to kill sensei's stones. so thats what i went for

i made a few obvious mistakes where its like u want to slap yourself 2 seconds after u move because you should know better

but all in all it was so much fun

i never felt pressure like that before i was very nervous,
very very nervous but i think my excitment outweighed my nervousness

its not like a tournamnet type of pressure, its like a kill the pro type of pressure
everyone wants to beat a pro

i will post the game up for reveiw.
i dont know what wrong with my sgfs on my thread they use to work
ill just post the game in game review until i figure out whats going on here

all my sgfs are showing up as text hmmmn

[OtakuViking]

You made me consider getting some lectures from go juan's go school. It sounds really awesome. And free game with a pro? Lucky bas...I mean congratz man! ) just fyi though, I think Svetlana is a girl.

[1986]

wow a girl thats awesome, if i meet a strong female go player i would marry her lol.

anywho internetgoschool got my vote for sure it inspires me to think like a pro thinks; because i get watch how they think, and interesting to see how they look at the board

[tapir]

She is married and mother of a son. But keep trying.

[1986]

I have gained alot of wisdom and understanding on my game since i have been off.
Im growing (I love all this free time for GO!)

i will share what i have been doing lately

for a while i was doing:

lecture/game/tsumego/game/lecture/game/tsumego/game = as a daily regime

but the day before yesterday i took out a whole day and did tsumego all day long

-tsumego is the by far best thing to do in the world to improve, i use to hate it but its crazy how i can do it all day like this

yesterday i took out a whole day to go back through the go dojo

-Hey i got a cool way to count territory and its pretty quick so im going to implement that method of quick counting in my games

(its much much better re-reading fundamental books because the more you understand about go the more you get out of the book or the program)

next

im going to re-read fundamental principles of go again

like i said before re reading is the greatest, i got so much more out of go dojo at 8 kyu then at 12k. hence re reading fundamentals of go just to see what i can get out of there again

im going to watch all the lectures on joseki

im going to watch all the lectures on fuseki

im going to watch all the lectures on attacking

im so focused now and i know this is how i will reach dan level and this is my path

every since i played that game with shygost and found out how much my games lacks fundamentals i have been on fire, hitting the books and doing more tsumego

so now my thesis is a quote from the go dojo:

"the game of go is all about territory, what dominates the game and makes it all happen is Attack. Attack with profit, Attack with sente, endlessly Attack! And when you cant Attack play moves to set up Attack!

Attacking gives you free profit and keeps your opponent from causing mischief as long as he has to defend.

because Attacking is so valuable, that why it is such a emphasis on joseki on building a stable base for group to ward off Attacks."

i think my next purchase is going to be whole board thinking in joseki
just because it fits with my study theme.

lately i have been stressing my opening, because i have been getting beat out in the opening by the dan players and its motivating me to getter a better faster fuseki .

Tsumego & Live Games are a must in my study so no need to elaborate on that.

i got a handicap strategy for every level stone now thanks to go world and the handicap lectures on internet go school.

Also im kicking off a new study blog in the study group section; where i can post whole board positions from my acutal games where i just feel stuck. I'm thinking about calling it "help im stuck". I would love it if u guys would participate too and post your "help im stuck" positions and im sure the strong players would help with solutions.

so forget talking lets do this.
shut up & do the impossible


i think jts said it best:

You know, on second thought, I think I neglected the best possible advice: stay away from Life in 19x19! If you come back here every hour or so to read our replies and acknowledge them, you'll never make it.

so with that being said i will see u again when i make 7k.

shut up and do the impossible

[OtakuViking]

Come up to low sdk already bro. We're waiting for you.

[jts]

so with that being said i will see u again when i make 7k.

Have fun! We'll miss you.