Life In 19x19

jlt wrote:

Bill Spight wrote:Lin goes on to recommend spending up to 10 minutes on one of these crucial plays. If you do that, that leaves about 10 sec. per play for the other moves.

It's not so easy to blitz through 50 moves, then suddenly read deeply for 10 minutes, then be back to blitz again. Some mental discipline is needed.

Indeed, mental discipline is needed. I never followed Lin's advice, myself, except to be prepared to take time, as needed. It helps to be able to play the endgame at 1-2 sec. per move. It also helps to read local situations to some depth before playing tenuki. Then if a crucial move comes up in that vicinity later, you are prepared.

I did have his advice in mind when I followed a training regime for two years, in which I spent 1 hour per day on 4 difficult problems.

Some mental discipline is needed.

Mental discipline in Go ?!?

Well, sure, mental discipline in Go is needed anyway, but Lin Haifeng's method adds yet another difficulty. It's easier (for me at least) to play a slow game (1h + byo-yomi).

Very interesting post - congratulations for reaching KGS shodan!
Especially enjoyed the story about DeepMind and Ke Jie.