Hi everyone before I beginning I wanted to comment on some of the comments.
I generally agree with this note. However, I do not think that you should just look at the solution and move on. You need to study the solution and why it works and how you might have found it. (And what was wrong with your thinking.) At the very least you should be able to play through the main line of the solution and and key variations in your head before moving on.
I wanted to say I completely agree with you. I feel like if I just look at the solution and move on I haven't learned anything except the answer to that specific problem. If i spend time studying the solution I am able to fully understand why the move works and would be able to apply it to other probelms.
That's a lot of time. Do you think this would still make for proper practice for a 4d in today's online regime? Even pros don't seem to pause for such a long while in the modern game.
So I have one issue with what you said, and that is there is a huge difference bettwen a 4d and a pro. A pro doesn't pause for such a long time because they are constantly thinking about the situations on the board to a higher level than other players. But I also agree that 15 minutes per problem is a lot of time, and with online play as it is 15 minutes to think through a problem is way too long.
I realize this post is comming on Tuesday and not Monday but it is a journal for Monday. I wanted to write this earlier today but got distracted at work by actually having to do work, and so I'm just now getting to write this. Yesterday I ended up working through more of the 501 Tesuji problems. I was able to work through 9 more problems over the course of about an hour. I also looked at the Tasuki problems, only the elementary ones and just worked through about 20 of them.
Results:
501 Tesuji 7/9 (77%) - I felt really good working through these problems. Most were solved in under 4 minutes but I had two that took 12 minutes each, both solved correctly though. I spent about 15 minutes reviewing through the ones that I missed but will probably go over them more today as well.
Other than that I didn't spend much time studying. Well that's not true but I didn't study much Go. I went to the public library and found some language books and studied a little bit of French and Italian, and also looked at some Chess books. Then spent some time hanging with my roomate until I decided to go to bed.
Today I want to continue working through the Endgame book and also take some time to go through a pro game from the Go World magazines.
With the hour from yesterday my total deliberate practice time is up to 4 hours, only 9,996 to go.
I will probably post again tonight, but I may switch to posting in the morning's, probably at work because I have nothing else to do. Either way I hope you continue reading and I hope to see you at the next post.
White may be able to make hay from threatening to connect to that stone, for instance. The timing of such a peep, as with the timing of any sente, is not always an easy question to answer, as jlt says. In this case, however, early is good, for two reasons: 1) playing the peep does not kill any other play for White, which option White might want to play later; 2) if Black gets stronger so that he does not have to simply connect to a peep, that will be better for Black.