Productive day today:
Some of Get Strong at Tesuji (2nd reading) done, a few problems from Attacking and Defending Moyos, two chapters of Attack and Defence, Some of Speed Baduk 7 done. Many games played with my brother to introduce him to the game.
Goals for the next week:
Finish Get Strong at Tesuji 1 and 2 star problems.
Finish Speed Baduk 7 first reading.
Is it obvious that I still find go problems fun?
No theory goals. I dip in and out of theory books as the mood takes me, which isn't very efficient but I don't think I'm at a level where theory hugely benefits me yet compared to doing problems which I can see having causing direct improvement in my play.
Impressions of Speed Baduk:
Good series. Good variety of problems. Everything from endgame, to opening, to haengma to tesuji. No. 7 is a good starting one for someone around my level (13k KGS). Loads of problems to drill in them and level tests at the end to check if you've internalised the information or need to go back and re-do the book again soon. Written by a professional go player with a Masters in Education, it's possibly one of the most well designed problem books I've read to date. He introduces a concept and then drills you on it with progressively harder problems. Then introduces a new concept and so on. Very much a problem drill book though, so if you dislike problems this might be your idea of hell!
Edit:
An explanatory note:
Why am I so productive some of the time yet so unproductive at other times? Well, first I'm human but second I've some form of bipolar. I'm in a small high at the moment so I've a ton of energy and focus to get things done. This is both a good and bad thing (trouble sleeping and mild overspending being the bad things). But it beats being depressed! So don't be surprised if I appear to be putting a stupid amount of effort into go at the moment, I'm high so I'm enthused with the world and everything is so much damn fun! But so long as it stays a small high (which is highly likely due to the pattern my illness follows) things will be fine.
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