Happy New Year!
Do you have any Go-related resolutions for the new year?
For myself, I’d like to finally finish the “Life and Death” and “Tesuji” books by James Davies.
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To visit the local Annandale club, which is only about 20 miles from where I live.
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To finish my book, currently 80% complete, tentatively titled Mini Mastery: A Complete Guide to 9x9 Go.
Also to put in more than the absolute bare minimum effort (texting meetup times and locations) into managing my local Go club.
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- Read “typical mistake”
- Re-read “essential go proverbs”
- Replay the games in “l’usage de la force” and then read the book again.
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Finishing my translation of @JethOrensin’s book into Dutch (about 90% done, but last steps are always the hardest).
Writing some articles on the history of the Dutch Go Magazine. First part is to be published in a few weeks time.
And maybe, maybe writing something on seki’s.
But you know how it usually goes with New Year’s resolutions.
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Ι have to typeset the Dutch version, re-typeset the whole Russian version (since it was heavily edited/corrected by many people apparently) and finally get to at least read (hopefully manage to study) some of the Go books I have laid out in the living room, along with my Go board.
Clear the dust, place some stones.
It is a whole year, I can do it!
Ok, I hope I can do it. 
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Sorry to point this out but “Mini Mastery” and “Complete Guide” seem to be contradictory… Is this intentional lol
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Haha, maybe so! It’s just a word swap of the previous iteration, “Mastering Minigo” or “Mini Go,” referring to the diminutive board size and not the size of the book. But the confusion could motivate a change of title. Who knows.
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Play some live games.
To make it real I shoud put a number on this so I might say something like 12 this year. But then that seems a bit challenging. So maybe I should aim for 6?
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Hmmm…play more games and keep learning! Also, to find more interesting people to interview on the Go world.
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For 2024 I decided to go from complete beginner to EGF 1d, so now for 2025 I would like to improve to EGF 4-5d
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Reaching 1d in under a year is pretty impressive, well done 
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I would definitely buy it. I play only 9x9 go, yet don’t improve.
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