I’ve always enjoyed achievement systems in computer games and software learning (e.g. Git). Also I’ve always found it a bit disheartening to read a Go book and realize later that I have not put a concept into practice and have thus have not really learned it.
So a few months back I decided to make a spreadsheet and make achievements. I’ll Illustrate with Janice Kim’s first Go book. Even though it’s a fairly elementary book, I haven’t accomplished all of the achievements in this list since I started this endeavor.
I’ve found it fun, and I’ve started a new sheet for James Davies’ Tesuji as well.
The columns of my spreadsheet are:
Source
Achievement (in a game)
Date
Description/Move Number
Link
Comment
Examples (e.g. link to online problems)
And here’s my list for Janice Kim’s Book 1
Achievement (in a game)
Ch2 block a peep
Ch5 Kill a small group
Ch5 Make a seki
Ch6 Start a ko fight
Ch9 Perform a double atari
Performance consequential double Atari
Ch9 Capture >= 4 stones in a ladder
Ch9 Net a group of >5 stones
Ch9 Take stones in a snapback (on purpose)
Ch9 Capture stones in a pin (connect and die)
Ch9 all test questions correct in a single sitting
Ch10 Protect connection with tiger mouth
Ch10 Protect two connections with double tiger mouth
Ch10 Protect connection with double knight’s move
Ch10 Connect with bamboo joint
Ch10 Connect by crossing under on first line (like diagram 28)
Ch10 Connect by crossing under on first line (like diagram 31)
Ch10 all test questions correct in a single sitting
Ch11 Make four space territory and live (linear)
Ch11 Make four space territory and live (L shape)
Ch11 Kill four space territory (L shape in corner)
Ch11 Kill four space territory (pyramid: 1+3)
Ch11 Kill jeep eye space
Ch11 Kill jeep eye space
Ch11 Kill 2x2 territory
Ch11 all test questions correct in a single sitting
Ch12 Win a ko fight
ch 12 Lose a ko fight
Ch12 all test questions correct in a single sitting
Ch13 all test questions correct in a single sitting
Ch14 Correctly compute score for a 9x9 game
Ch14 all test questions correct in a single sitting
