Life In 19x19

I'm just going to cross-post my accidental response I put into last years thread. Like the person above, I was too tired to notice I was in the wrong thread... I guess it's a good thing, though, otherwise I wouldn't have found the quote I included,

entropi wrote:Further reducing the time spent on Go. Not playing more than 12 games throughout the year and uninstalling (and resisting the desire to reinstall) the Go related applications from my iphone, tablet, notebook, etc.

If explanation is needed: My second daughter is born some weeks ago and I am obliged to use my time on more productive things at work and at home. Go is a very nice and addictive game but it is too much self-contained and unproductive for the other aspects of my life. The time I spend on playing Go or solving tsumego or watching a pro game is completely useless for anything else than Go. Ok, there are many other things like that (e.g. watching TV, eating chocolate, drinking coffee, etc) but none of these other things takes as much time and concentration as Go, at least in my case. I will continue having a look and eventually posting every now and then in these forums, but I will try to restrict it as well.

That's my 2012 Go resolution.

Very few posts here, but I figured this is the place to say hello at this point...

I can completely see where the above is coming from. I just began this game last year, and in two weeks, my fifth child is being born, I am starting another semester at my second degree, and I still have a full-time job to attend to. That being said, my resolution: Play one serious game per week and post the results to the play journal area of this forum (that I have yet to start...), and play at least 5 and no more than 50, tsumego per day from goproblems.com

Yeah, I'm masochistic...

EDIT: OOOPSSS! I didn't even realize this was a zombie thread from last year,

Figure out what my daughter (36 months) gets out of "playing go" with me. She's interested without any prompting, but it's a very disorienting experience because of her attention span and disregard for the rules.

hyperpape wrote:Figure out what my daughter (36 months) gets out of "playing go" with me. She's interested without any prompting, but it's a very disorienting experience because of her attention span and disregard for the rules.

That's really cute. She is probably interested because you are interested in it and her. Its a way to have your undivided attention. Plus, go is pretty. black and white and pretty patterns.
YMMV

hyperpape wrote:Figure out what my daughter (36 months) gets out of "playing go" with me. She's interested without any prompting, but it's a very disorienting experience because of her attention span and disregard for the rules.

I can empathize! I often spent time this past summer having go problem attempts on my physical board interrupted by four ranging from 8 to 2 . My advice, enjoy it. As they get older and older, it is harder to find something that you can spend time over without the kid wanting to go do their own thing. In my experience with my children, games hold attention and can lead to hours together, and those are memories that can never be underestimated!

No particular Go resolutions from me this year. Not only do I have a lot of other things I need to get done in other areas of life, I don't feel like investing into getting better at the game.

What I do hope I manage, related to Go, is to keep improving the Go community around me, as much as I can, bringing more players into the fold, improving the levels of the ones that are already in, and getting my local Go community more interested in participating in international events, for cross-pollination.

I achieved my last years (2012) resolution of almost stopping go activities, for family reasons. I played around 10-15 games on dragon go server, and managed to get to 1d level there, then dropped back to 1k.

This years resolution is revive my go activities in a controlled manner. I will try to visit my club occasionally to meet go friends and have beer and game sessions.

My only concern is that I am not sure whether I can do it in a controlled way, i.e. I don't know how to avoid a go-frenzy.

I may be reading and posting here slightly more often than last year.

Another resolution is that I will walk (instead of driving or cycling) to and from the bar where my club meets, which takes a bit more than half an hour, whenever I find the time to go and unless it rains heavily.

Same procedure as every year.

Getting better and having fun : )

I hope it isn't too late to make new year resolutions

1. Of course, I want to get better at the game. There are three people who I want to win. The first one I'm aiming for is only about 4 stones stronger. I think it is realistic to expect that by April, though of course, I'm trying for earlier. I think I will be criticised if I say my goal for the end of this year because I'm an overly-ambitious person and my go goals are no different. You'll all find out if I'm successful because I'll throw a huge internet party with internet alcohol and all those good celebration necessities

2. I'm pretty good at memorising things. Problem is, I can't choose what to memorise. If it's nice (shape,sound,pattern,etc), it'll stick. If it's ugly, it won't be retained even if it's a small thing. I don't know how to explain how it works. Perhaps if I start practising to hone my memorisation skills, I can memorise go games and patterns on whim rather than naturally.

3. Increase the population of the school go club.

I'm going to do all of this or die trying