Life In 19x19

karaklis wrote:

Toge wrote:A 20k is not 20k because he can't read. He's 20k because he has no idea what to read.

Exactly that, and it has to be emphasized once more.

You can also put it the other way around: You can only get strong at reading if you know lots of shapes and tesuji.

To abstract it: Suppose you can read 100 positions. When you're 20k, there are about 10 eligible positions to play on every move. Then you will be able to read out two moves, your move, your opponent's move, that's all - reading depth: 2. When you're a dan player, there are 1-2 eligible positions. As for the others you *know* that these are bad. Assuming 1.5 positions per move you will be able to read out a move depth of 11-12.

Once I read an article about what professional chess players makes so strong. To find out about it, their brain activities were examined during play. It turned out that their long-term memory was much more active than that of ordinary players. This finding led to the conclusion that professional players read out/assess the game by accessing patterns from their long-term memory. This makes perfect sense for go as well, since go is even more related to pattern recognition than chess.

So to get stronger you need to internalize lots of patterns in your long-term memory.

Magicwand on May 23rd wrote:reason why your game done look like the problem is that you are not playing joseki.
many corner problems appears in actual game.
study life and death of corner and memorize them.

L&D is good for you because it will familiarize you with critical points.
in actual game you will learn to see good attack points and defending points.
you will also learn killing points of the shape so you do not waste your reading on something uesless.

trust me that anybody can reach 5D kgs level.

Magicwand on May 26th wrote:
how many instance in your game memorization actually help?
few opening moves and josekies perhaps..
rest of them are reading.

Magicwand on May 27th wrote:
i forget eveything that happened yesterday.
so it must not be my memory

Magicwand wrote:i play hane at the head of two stone because i read what happens after not because i memorized it.

dfan wrote:

Magicwand wrote:i play hane at the head of two stone because i read what happens after not because i memorized it.

Yet you often make comments in Malkovich games such as "His move must be bad... I am not sure why yet" or "This must be the only move, I will read later" (I didn't look up actual quotes, these are paraphrases). It seems like in practice you use your intuition a lot (and do very well with it!).

dfan wrote:

Magicwand wrote:i play hane at the head of two stone because i read what happens after not because i memorized it.

Yet you often make comments in Malkovich games such as "His move must be bad... I am not sure why yet" or "This must be the only move, I will read later" (I didn't look up actual quotes, these are paraphrases). It seems like in practice you use your intuition a lot (and do very well with it!).

Magicwand wrote:intuition is a reading skill.