Life In 19x19

Monthly update:

Played for over 34 hours and 46 minutes.
Tsumego for over 4 hours.
Reviewed my games with ai-sensei for over 4 hours and 21 minutes.
Reviewed pro games for an hour and 39 minutes.
Watched youtube videos on go for four hours and 25 minutes.
Book study for 32 minutes.
Joseki study for 14 minutes.

Put less time in this month.

One hour and 12 minutes for tsumego.
14 hours and 20 minutes of playing.
Less than 10 minutes reviewing my games.
About 40 minutes reviewing pro games.

Only a little this month:

52 minutes of tsumego.
Seven hours and 16 minutes of play.
15 minutes of of reviewing my games.
Seven minutes reviewing pro games.

You seem to have followed my advice of logging your progress as a KPI. And it seems to be going down. Compared to when you started out this exercise, let me ask a few questions:

- Has your rank increased?
- Regardless, do you feel your level of understanding has increased?
- Has your motivation increased or decreased
- Which activities do you like more than before? Which less?
- Have your goals changed since the start? How do you look at your go future now?

I've actually lost a stone from the start of this. I'm not too disappointed about it though.

For now at least, I intend to stop updating this journal.

I think I'll still play some, but not as much.

Sorry to hear...

I think, from my experience, the OGS grades in the 4k - 1d range seem a bit flaky* - and difficult to benchmark personal progress against.

*I play at 2d on KGS, 1d+ on IGS - but sometimes seem to be wiped out by 100 points plus by a 3k or 4k on OGS. The dan grades seem a bit more stable in my experience.

Thanks for the input, dust.

That's something to consider.

Well, actually I think I'll continue after all.

Knotwilg, I'll answer your questions.

Like I wrote a couple of days ago, I've gone down a stone.

I can't tell if my understanding has increased or not.

For motivation, it's been low the past few weeks(partly due to focusing on other things), but I'm feeling more motivated right now.

I don't think what I like has changed.

For my goals, it seems I'm not progressing the way I would have liked, but I just want to put in the work and see where it takes me.

February:

Tsumego was about three or four hours.
About 15 hours playing.
24 minutes reviewing pro games.
About an hour watching videos.
About 19 minutes on neuralnetgoproblems.com.

Hi Aaron,

I see that you have some correspondance games going on. If you want to play a teaching one, feel free to ask.

S0nge, thank you; I appreciate it.

I've sent you a challenge.