Life and Death, Tesuji, Opening Problems, Endgame problems, Connection/Cutting Problems etc.

I just follow the maxim of making sure they're relatively easy and I can solve them quickly and I then turn out 50-100 in a session usually. Whether it does me any good I've no idea but it's fun and I enjoy it.

I've gone through phases of this, and I think you're asking the wrong question.

People who prefer tsumego over playing just don't like to compete so much. For them, tsumego provides much of the fun of thinking about go without having to enter a win-lose situation. Thus, it's not about finding enjoyable problems, because all (potentially solvable) go problems are enjoyable ... or not. I suspect that people such as yourself, who enjoy the competition, view tsumego as something like batting practice in baseball. It is useful to hone your skills, but it's really boring. Presumably, you don't enjoy tsumego because you see it simply as a means to an end.

For you, I think it's not about committing to tsumego, but rather about committing to improving. If you do this, there's no way around it.

On another note, to return to the thread topic, I still keep making new accounts, due to the notion that with a new name I could somehow unload the ballast of my weak play of the past. Probably, I'm up to about 900. Maybe I should take up baseball.

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Patience, grasshopper.

I'd disagree, I love competing over a real board it's just online go that I don't like so much for a variety of reasons. Given a choice between a real world game and doing problems I'll always pick the real world game, I might pick doing problems over playing online though.

Just played 8 games with bots, 2 wins, 3 loses and 3 escapes Good thing is the bots won't be sad about playing such a prick (and I won't be able to play them anymore).

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Formerly Gorim

As a matter of interest, if you subsequently go and resign the game, will the bots undo your blacklisting? I'm guessing not.

I don't know, it will do me good not to play bots anyway, so I won't check that

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Formerly Gorim

I often listen to the HNG soundtrack whilst playing Go.

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If Chess was invented by man, then Go was invented by God.

I buy more books than I have time to read.

Sometimes I go away and slowly make a cup of tea if I suspect my online opponent is impatient and trying to make me play quickly. (But I have a right to play within the agreed time controls, don`t I?)

I once declared an opponent (who had once blatantly escaped me after being rude) to have been "whipped" after he resigned. Upon analysing the game, I found that I had been somewhat lucky, so that made me feel rather less like a dominatrix.

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Learn the "tea-stealing" tesuji! Cho Chikun demonstrates here:

Heh, recently I played a game with this music in loop: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ZFKLu5IH9A

Really cool!

I still own and play with 20$ go set. I've never purchased anything higher.

I confess: I have a ? next to my rank on KGS.

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Someday I want to be strong enough to earn KGS[-].

I'll add another few here:

1. I don't like thinking moves through, but still expect to win.
2. I've become something of a casual player after stating I wanted to turn pro in May.
3. I think my declaration of trying to become a pro hampered my improvement because I was so frustrated when I went on that long slide. And I never recovered from that playing-wise.
4. I play bots more often than I play people these days.
5. Anyone I lose to is a sandbagger. Anyone I beat is weak. (joking)

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Slava Ukraini!

1) I like to say I play using instinct though my "instinct" is just a bunch of memorized formations and reactions to people playing the same move all the time.

2) My emotions effect my game to much and I easily lose control of the board on a bad day.

3) I never read a single go book in my life.

4) After defeating a really strong opponent some how (I don't know if he made a mistake or it was because I did not realize he was a few dans at the time) I lost every match that was challenged to me by any one after that.

5) After recently returning to go I found my patience was totally destroyed.

Oh dear, look at all that shame. LOL.

I was playing a game and spent 38 moves under the false assumption that my opponent's enormous game-deciding dragon was connected. It wasn't.

Normal story, right?

It's a correspondence game. Those 38 moves probably took more than a month.

In my defence, he *should* have connected the group, he just made a mistake. So I'd filed it under "things I can't kill", and then went on to figure out how to salvage the game.

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Occupy Babel!

Araban, Shapenaji, I’m adding your Go memes to my public Go Memes albums on FB and G+, thank you!

Go Memes on Facebook (this one I could make a shared album if more people want to contribute … it would be our album then and not just mine.)
Go Memes on Google+

Prepare to see your creations out in the wild.

Greetings, Tom

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“The only difference between me and a madman is that I’m not mad.” — Salvador Dali ★ Play a slooooow correspondence game with me on OGS?

My meme:

I use SE more than SO.

Lol!!! So true! I tell people I am a born again GO player. So you can imagine the evangelizing.

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Walla Walla GO Club -(on FB)

We play because we enjoy the beauty of the game, the snap and feel of real stones, and meeting interesting people. Hope to see ya there! お願いします!

Anthony

That might be part of it, the other part is that it removes the social element for people how dislike/have problems with interaction.

And a confession:

Going to Asian resturants with Go books or with iPad or Android phone on tsumego site or apps or playing AI.
To 1) Get to know where personal is from and 2) Just to get to discuss go. It worked twice at least, at a Dumpling place (Fang Yuan Shi Wu), one of the women working there said very fun but very hard. Second place was a Sushi resturant (Sushibar Sen Sei) and the owner just asked me if I played, the status of the game in Sweden and how the International scene looked currently.

This pretty much sums up the way I feel. I have "Online Go Anxiety" (http://senseis.xmp.net/?OnlineGoAnxiety) something fierce. I'd much rather work tsumego than play Go online. On the other hand, I'd much rather play in person than work tsumego.

All of that being said, my opportunities to play in person locally are few and far in between. I make it a point to play online regulary, usually via DGS but sometimes via IGS when I muster up the courage. I also make it a point to fill the voids in my day with tsumego that I carry around on my phone or see on various websites.

I think the post about committing to getting better in general hits the nail on the head. There's bits of the game I'm sure we all don't like as much as other aspects. That's part of it.

The most important thing of all is just to have fun.