Life In 19x19

My apologies for replying to a thread that has been inactive for over a year ^^;

I imagine that tsumego is for training the mind to read out board states. Not only local situations, but also whole-board ones. Of course the positions seen in tsumego usually don't arise in live games, but the practice gained from doing tsumego can be useful in strengthening reading ability used in live games. I'm not crazy about doing tsumego, but I have been slowly warming up to them.

Memorized pro game records serve as a reference from which to learn how to play. By learning the logical underpinnings of each move therein, such as knowing when to tenuki and determining direction of play, one gains knowledge useful for playing live games.

Tsumego is very useful but it has to be done correctly,the main purpose of tsumego is to establish good habits of thinking and pondering,it must be done properly over a long period of time,and it will have a huge impact,i think its the best method to improve,but it heavily relies on beeing done the right way,without guidance its very difficult to achieve

baduk wrote:Tsumego is very useful but it has to be done correctly,the main purpose of tsumego is to establish good habits of thinking and pondering,it must be done properly over a long period of time,and it will have a huge impact,i think its the best method to improve,but it heavily relies on beeing done the right way,without guidance its very difficult to achieve

If you want to not check the solution until you found it by reading, you can ask someone to watch your back. Better but not compulsory to be a go player.