Life In 19x19

Kirby wrote:There is a Korean phrase that says something along the lines of, "A bad student carries a lot of books."

The idea is that having a lot of books in itself doesn't make for a good student. You can learn a lot from just a single book, sometimes.

That being said, I "carry a lot of books"...

Kirby learns the most from a brand new blank moleskin notebook.

I must confess I have a good and big collection of books.. and may be I just read like 4-5 completely and most of them I just made a light pass over all.

I've worked out with problemas collections a lot, like Maeda book 1 (going thru it I won 2 stones!) and recently some other L&D from China

buy anyway I have a culture of collection: my mom inherit a huge collection from his grandpa (latin literature and classics)... she helped me to grow my own and now I have my own go collection with more than 100 books

the jewels:
- an original first edition in english of Kato Masao Attack and kill (got it for only $50)
- and one of the few editions of the life and death dictionary of Segoe Kensaku. a first edition! I get it for only ... $10!! one goy already offered me $100 for it. No thanks

and I keep my eye in 2-3 other rare books

Recently I got "Beyond forcing moves" for only $60 ... very good price!

(going thru it I won 2 stones!)

hope it works for me - that's what I'm doing now

I love to buy books, too, and it always itches me to enlarge my Go book "collection" (at the moment just around 40 books, but at least I worked with at least 30 of them). But since that's a pretty expensive hobby and since my main goal is to become stronger, I, now, focus more on getting everything out of the books I own, respectively, out of the ones I can borrow from friends or my Go club.

A one time read is by far not enough for me. For instance: I might solve a problem book with a decent probability of success but when I look at the problems a week later I need too much time to find the answer again. So, right now, I have ten problem books in a cycle, which will be repeated until I can lay down every problem without even opening the book. Just kidding. But my goal is to clear the problems' main variations under at least 30 seconds.

SoDesuNe wrote:A one time read is by far not enough for me. For instance: I might solve a problem book with a decent probability of success but when I look at the problems a week later I need too much time to find the answer again. So, right now, I have ten problem books in a cycle, which will be repeated until I can lay down every problem without even opening the book. Just kidding. But my goal is to clear the problems' main variations under at least 30 seconds.

I've found this too. I need to do and redo problem sets over and over again. I bought a few different problem books to keep the problem of memorisation at bay. Any excuse to buy a few more books eh?

Boidhre wrote:

SoDesuNe wrote:A one time read is by far not enough for me. For instance: I might solve a problem book with a decent probability of success but when I look at the problems a week later I need too much time to find the answer again. So, right now, I have ten problem books in a cycle, which will be repeated until I can lay down every problem without even opening the book. Just kidding. But my goal is to clear the problems' main variations under at least 30 seconds.

I've found this too. I need to do and redo problem sets over and over again. I bought a few different problem books to keep the problem of memorisation at bay. Any excuse to buy a few more books eh?

Kiseido summer sale is still on

tchan001 wrote:

Boidhre wrote:

SoDesuNe wrote:A one time read is by far not enough for me. For instance: I might solve a problem book with a decent probability of success but when I look at the problems a week later I need too much time to find the answer again. So, right now, I have ten problem books in a cycle, which will be repeated until I can lay down every problem without even opening the book. Just kidding. But my goal is to clear the problems' main variations under at least 30 seconds.

I've found this too. I need to do and redo problem sets over and over again. I bought a few different problem books to keep the problem of memorisation at bay. Any excuse to buy a few more books eh?

Kiseido summer sale is still on

Unfortunately I emptied my wallet on music over my manic period.

I'm also one of those people who own way more Go books than I "should" have. I tend to pick up new ones when I feel "stuck" and somehow fall into the delusional trap of believing that purchasing books would somehow improve my strength and renew my motivation for a longer period. It's some kind of ersatz satisfaction, sort of how some people munch chocolate when they're unhappy. (Hey, I recently learned that "ersatz" is actually used in English!)

On the other hand, Go is a relatively inexpensive hobby, if you consider how many hours of frustra.. er, I mean, fun you are getting out of it. Playing video games, golf, or even reading novels are all significantly more costly pastimes, especially once you've made some of the basic purchases, like a nice board and the books that everyone seems to have.

And if nothing else, it helps to support the Go writers and publishers, which in a roundabout way may also help to make Go more popular.

Go CAN turn into an expensive hobby!

Well, if you're YOU, then yes, it does get expensive. :p I limit myself mostly to English and German go books, so it's not that expensive, luckily.

Try buying some stuff from Kurokigoishi's Gallery of Wonderful Goods and tell me if go is expensive or not.

Just because a hobby can be expensive doesn't mean it is expensive.

Mivo wrote:I recently learned that "ersatz" is actually used in English!

It's also used in French!