My strength went in consecutive years:

14k - 5k - 2k - 1k - 1d

My strength went in consecutive years:

5k - 5k - 5k - 5k - ...

I'm pretty active, and take regular lessons from stronger players on KGS

I seem to go up a rank every 1-3 months. In DDK, you will improve quite a lot faster than that though.

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Revisiting Go - Study Journal
My Programming Blog - About the evolution of my go bot.

My strength went in consecutive years:

8k - 7k

Got to know the game 2003
2006 9 kyu
2007 5 kyu
2008 5 kyu
2009 4 kyu
2010 3 kyu

How much do I put into it? As much as a job, family and other things (sports, movies, ...) allow.

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Stay out of my territory! (W. White, aka Heisenberg)

Well i learned Go in September 2002. In the beginning i literally spent all my free time on KGS. At any time i was either, sleeping, eating, working, or on KGS.
I improved pretty quickly and was 12k/13k in january 2003, where i stopped devoting that much time on Go. In Fall 2003 i became 9k, promoted myself to 8k in summer 2004, 7k a year later. In 2005 i stopped mostly playing, i went to some tournaments in the area, but that was all Go i was playing that year. Still in 2006, after my break, i came back as 4k. Its been a slow road since then, took me around a year to get to 3k, a year and a half to become 2k, which i am since february 2009.

I try to improve the pace a bit, but i still would be happy if i could improve around 1 stone per year.

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Magics way up the hill (personal study journal)

It took me 10 months to reach sdk. Being in charge of a club, i can tell you i've seen several people climbing up. Some take longer than me and some do it way faster. The faster i've seen was reaching 6k in 4 month. But as an average, i would say that people who took go as their main (and most of the time, only) hobbie reached sdk in 6~7 months.

I think your goal sounds good, and you can adapt it as you go.
I disagree with the idea that the goal will slow you down if its is too easy or frustrate you if its too hard. I've set goals for me too and sometimes i've succeded and sometimes i've failed: Either way, the only conclussion that came to my mind in that moment was setting a new goal, and keep playing, enjoying and trying to improve...

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2000: learned the game, reached ~30 kyu
2001: started playing on kgs a lot, found SL, reached ~20 kyu
2002: reached ~10 kyu
2003: reached 8 kyu, played in my first tournament
2004: reached 6 kyu
2005: reached 5 kyu, fairly inactive
2006: reached 1 kyu, played more IRL tournaments
2007: reached 1 dan
2008: stayed 1 dan
2009: stayed 1 dan
2010: hope to reach 2 dan?

12.1997 - learned rules and played first game
06.1998 - 9 kyu
07.1999 - 1 dan
09.1999 - 2 dan
04.2000 - 3 dan
06.2000 - 4 dan

http://www.europeangodatabase.eu/EGD/Pl ... y=10874842

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Roman Pszonka

According to KGS history:
Started october 2007, SDK in february 2008(eventhough I hit 10k in 1 month), 5k after 1 year... But that's where I hit the plateau. A year ahead, october 2009 I'm barely a 3k(I stopped playing many many times since 2007 though, when I didn't progress fast enough for my liking) and skip ahead to now, almost a year again and I'm around 1d. Now I will be trying to do the impossible though and go a full year without quitting! Aiming to hit 3D before Bordeaux

But rank obsession is bad I guess.. If I hadn't cared so much about it, I probably wouldn't have quit so many times and maybe I would've played more games. I was afraid to play if I didn't study a lot in between, trying to make certain I would win. Oh well.

Sounds like that might be more of a "win" obsession, than a rank obsession.

If you find yourself afraid to play, because you don't want to drop a rank, just play some free games.

I am very unstable. However, according to KGS ranks, I seemed to get stuck at the following levels:

21k
15k
12k --> Later KGS rank shift bumped me up to 8k
5k
2k
1d
Now, 2k-ish again?

On Tygem I entered my initial rank as 5k when I was probably about 2k (for the first time ). I didn't really get stuck anywhere, and I'm 2d there, now. However, if KGS is accurate that my rank has dropped, maybe I will start slipping on Tygem, too.

I guess I am probably not stable because I need to play more. I also play too fast, sometimes.

I guess I just have to keep trying.

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