Redundant wrote:
My games are rarely violent.
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| Author: | Redundant [ Sat Jul 03, 2010 5:27 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Redundant's 1d or bust study plan |
I just got to a flaky 3k on kgs, and now I want to keep my progress going. I've been improving about a stone a month, and I'd really like to keep this trend going. My final goal is 1d this year (after that, I guess I'll need to set a higher target). As a go player, I feel like my biggest strengths are more strategic than tactical. My games are rarely violent. I think I need to acquire a skill at violence to become a better go player. Because of this, I'm going to try a reading focused study plan. The plan
Other than that, I'll keep up with playing kgs/dgs/ogs games, and post any games I lose in this thread for review, even (especially) if they're due to embarrassing mistakes. |
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| Author: | Shaddy [ Sat Jul 03, 2010 6:23 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Redundant's 1d or bust study plan |
Redundant wrote: My games are rarely violent.
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| Author: | Li Kao [ Sun Jul 04, 2010 1:34 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Redundant's 1d or bust study plan |
Play me and you'll see enough violence for a lifetime (on the other hand a lifetime is not very long in my games, one of us will die big) |
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| Author: | kirkmc [ Sun Jul 04, 2010 1:58 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Redundant's 1d or bust study plan |
Li Kao wrote: Play me and you'll see enough violence for a lifetime (on the other hand a lifetime is not very long in my games, one of us will die big) Perhaps, then, you should learn to play solid and non-violent. You'll learn a lot, and you may eventually learn how to balance the two. |
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| Author: | Redundant [ Sun Jul 04, 2010 7:55 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Redundant's 1d or bust study plan |
Li Kao wrote: Play me and you'll see enough violence for a lifetime (on the other hand a lifetime is not very long in my games, one of us will die big) I'll definitely take you up on this. |
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| Author: | Redundant [ Sun Jul 04, 2010 2:52 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Redundant's 1d or bust study plan |
I've been trying this "trick" joseki that shaddy taught me. It seems to start giant fights. Here's an example from a game today. This game was a giant fight. |
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| Author: | Li Kao [ Sun Jul 04, 2010 3:04 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Redundant's 1d or bust study plan |
A game of beauty |
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| Author: | Redundant [ Sun Jul 04, 2010 6:50 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Redundant's 1d or bust study plan |
Today I got in some tsumego from the blue book of the lee chang-ho series. I did respectably well. I also did some problems from VPaSFfS. Most of these I ended up just checking the answer to learn the technique. I will do the problems again once I've forgotten most of the details to see how much of it stuck. |
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| Author: | Shaddy [ Sun Jul 04, 2010 7:29 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Redundant's 1d or bust study plan |
if you ever forget, the difficulty is, easiest to hardest, green-blue-purple-brown-red-yellow. yellow caps out at around gengen gokyo difficulty = 1-2d or so. |
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| Author: | SoDesuNe [ Sun Jul 04, 2010 10:56 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Redundant's 1d or bust study plan |
Shaddy wrote: if you ever forget, the difficulty is, easiest to hardest, green-blue-purple-brown-red-yellow. yellow caps out at around gengen gokyo difficulty = 1-2d or so. So the Yi Chang'ho-Series is useful for 5 Kyu KGS, at least counting the first books? I always wondered if I should buy these, but you'll find nowhere on which rank books aim. How much of a problem is it to not understand korean? =D Are there are a lot of instructed problems? To the game: I don't understand Black B15. Why not give Atari from C14? A lot less problems, I think. Black C11 is family feud, giving White a strong outer wall, which threatens the three lonesome stones. Furthermore C11 remains weak at the same time. Really good game for White, you surely took your profit all over the board =) |
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| Author: | Shaddy [ Sun Jul 04, 2010 11:26 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Redundant's 1d or bust study plan |
Yes, the series goes from 6k to 2d. They are in chinese, I don't think you lose much as long as you can read "W to play" and "B to play", but I may be wrong as I can't read chinese. I found them extremely good study tools, but I had no other source of tsumego when I got them. |
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| Author: | SoDesuNe [ Mon Jul 05, 2010 1:19 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Redundant's 1d or bust study plan |
Hm, my local Go-store lists the Yi Chang'ho series in Korean. You have a link to the Chinese translation? |
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| Author: | Shaddy [ Mon Jul 05, 2010 7:39 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Redundant's 1d or bust study plan |
http://senseis.xmp.net/?LiChangHoJingjiangWeiqiSihuo |
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| Author: | SoDesuNe [ Mon Jul 05, 2010 8:00 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Redundant's 1d or bust study plan |
Thank you! But someone already explained me that I mixed up the Yi Chang'ho series. He has a complete problem set covering Joseki, Life-and-Death, Tesuji, Hamate, Haengma etc., too, and I thought you meant this. His raw Life-and-Death- and Tesuji-sets seem to be great. I think, I have to register on eBay in the next month =D |
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| Author: | Hushfield [ Mon Jul 05, 2010 9:41 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Redundant's 1d or bust study plan |
SoDesuNe wrote: So the Yi Chang'ho-Series is useful for 5 Kyu KGS, at least counting the first books? I always wondered if I should buy these, but you'll find nowhere on which rank books aim. The first two books (the green and the blue one) of the Yi Ch'ang-ho Life and Death series are very accessible. I took about a week to do both books, and this was when I checked the answers afterwards, so I know I got around 90-95% of them correct as a KGS 7k. I haven't gotten round to volumes 3-6 but the first two aren't very hard at all.SoDesuNe wrote: How much of a problem is it to not understand korean? =D Are there are a lot of instructed problems?) I have them in Chinese, and you really only need three characters ("black", "white", and "first") to solve them. I haven't got a clue about Korean though. But I always find the English hints in the Graded Go Problems for Beginners series very annoying, because it forces me to keep the book upside down as to not read the text.
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| Author: | Redundant [ Tue Jul 06, 2010 8:02 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Redundant's 1d or bust study plan |
I've realized that an hour a day is a bit more than my attention span can take, so I think I'll pare down my plans do doing one of the items in my plan. Yesterday I finished the blue book, although I'll definitely have to give this one a reread as I got too many wrong. Tonight I started the purple book, and this one is noticeably harder, although I am still doing respectably well at getting the answers. |
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| Author: | Redundant [ Thu Jul 08, 2010 4:26 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Redundant's 1d or bust study plan |
A lost game. I neglected to defend some big groups, and that cost me dearly. |
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| Author: | kokomi [ Thu Jul 08, 2010 4:39 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Redundant's 1d or bust study plan |
Redundant wrote: A lost game. I neglected to defend some big groups, and that cost me dearly. T2 is interesting, is that the best local move? |
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| Author: | ethanb [ Thu Jul 08, 2010 9:05 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Redundant's 1d or bust study plan |
kokomi wrote: Redundant wrote: A lost game. I neglected to defend some big groups, and that cost me dearly. T2 is interesting, is that the best local move? R4 should be better first - then black defends (R5) and white plays S1. Later white may find a time to push up at Q4 and cut. |
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| Author: | Mike [ Fri Jul 16, 2010 3:31 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Redundant's 1d or bust study plan |
If 67 is S1, I can't see a way for white to live at a glance, at least. |
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