Life In 19x19

Hello 19x19!

I’ve been playing Go on and off for about a year now improving somewhat shakily , though the past couple of months I have started feeling a strong urge to improve and take my game to a new level. I thought that starting a study journal might be a good way to give myself and others that might happen by it a bit of extra motivation and encouragement!
So I’ll try to post any study progress I make and any interesting games I play or otherwise come across.

The main areas I want to improve in my game are currently:

• Endgame
• Midgame judgment and reading speed
• Online game anxiety

My plan to do this mainly from doing daily tsumego and tesuji drilling, (I’m currently working on the 1001 collection, about halfway through) and playing a lot more games (I joined the ASR league in February). Studying pro games will also be a part of my study regime, all though a smaller piece than playing and doing problems, the pros I currently like to study the most are Takemiya Masaki and Go Seigen.
The actual playing of games is what i think is holding my progress back the most, online I usually play about 2-3 games a week and one or two at the club, I would like this to be at least 7-10 games online.

I’m usually online on KGS from 18-24 GMT+1 weekdays and more diversely on weekends. So if you see me online don’t hesitate to give me a call, I’m usually up for a long game whit a solid review!
If you would like a review on your own game and you think I can help I’m usually in for that as well, teaching I think is one of the best ways to improve yourself!

Rank graph:


Here is my Latest game in the ASR league:


That’s all for now , I hope to see you around and maybe play a game! Much enjoyment !

Muone wrote:• Midgame judgment and reading speed

If you didn't read it already, I recommend to read "Positional Judgment High-Speed Game Analysis" by Cho Chikun. I'm currently reading this book and it is really great.

Muone wrote:Hello 19x19!
So if you see me online don’t hesitate to give me a call, I’m usually up for a long game whit a solid review!

Really long game ? If you would like to play a 1 hour game, I would like to be your opponent

Celebrir wrote:

Muone wrote:• Midgame judgment and reading speed

If you didn't read it already, I recommend to read "Positional Judgment High-Speed Game Analysis" by Cho Chikun. I'm currently reading this book and it is really great.

Thanks for the tip, I haven't so i'll definitively have a look at it when i get a chance!

Celebrir wrote:

Muone wrote:Hello 19x19!
So if you see me online don’t hesitate to give me a call, I’m usually up for a long game whit a solid review!

Really long game ? If you would like to play a 1 hour game, I would like to be your opponent

I never play games whit a main time less than 25 min, and i'm still almost always in in SD by late midgame/ endgame. So a 1 hour i'll definitely enjoy .

Muone wrote:I never play games whit a main time less than 25 min, and i'm still almost always in in SD by late midgame/ endgame. So a 1 hour i'll definitely enjoy .

I envy you... I have the problem that I never use my time if I have a lot of and want to get rid of this habit... It's really annoying if one loses a tournament game with 1 hour thinking time because one played to hasty... (At my last 1 hour tournament I used less than 30 minutes in four of five games...)

I have my last exam at my university at Friday. If you want we can play afterwards

Celebrir wrote:

Muone wrote:I never play games whit a main time less than 25 min, and i'm still almost always in in SD by late midgame/ endgame. So a 1 hour i'll definitely enjoy .

I envy you... I have the problem that I never use my time if I have a lot of and want to get rid of this habit... It's really annoying if one loses a tournament game with 1 hour thinking time because one played to hasty... (At my last 1 hour tournament I used less than 30 minutes in four of five games...)

I have my last exam at my university at Friday. If you want we can play afterwards

I got rid of my last exams for this period last week so I'll probably be available in the weekend, just a couple of hand-ins that need some attention but i shouldn't be a problem.

On a completely other note, lesson learned today:

• Don't overplay to make a bigger win while ahead, greed will com back an bite you in the tail.

Muone wrote:I got rid of my last exams for this period last week so I'll probably be available in the weekend, just a couple of hand-ins that need some attention but i shouldn't be a problem.

I could play at Saturday evening. By the way, in which timezone are you ?

Muone wrote:On a completely other note, lesson learned today:

• Don't overplay to make a bigger win while ahead, greed will com back an bite you in the tail.

If you really learned that and are able to do it in your games from now on you are another step ahead of me