Determine the status (dead/unsettled/alive) of as many groups as possible before your time runs out.
If you’re playing from a computer, you can use these keyboard shortcuts:
Sorry if this is kinda OT, but it’s a sincere question:
From a good player standpoint, is it “bad” to just “memorize” the shape, instead of just learning to read it fast enough? Would it count as our brain “cheating”, instead of actually learning?
I can answer a few because I fell victim to them pretty recently, but not because I can actually read them out, that’s why I’m asking.
Yes, it’s definitely worthwhile to memorize statuses, and sometimes that will just naturally happen. Knowing the status is a great hint towards being able to successfully read it under game pressure.
Further, knowing statuses is helpful to understand how to reduce more complicated shapes to known shapes. For example, knowing that L group is dead will help one evaluate more complicated corner evasions that could potentially be reduced to an L group.
Reading and memorizing are both valid techniques with pros and cons. Reading is flexible, remembering is fast. Memorizing can speed up reading and maybe reading can speed up memorizing too.
Whatever works. If you know the shape, use your memory and if you don’t, use reading. If you are good at memorizing this can be an avantage in live games, and if not, don’t worry. With practice you’ll remember some shapes naturally, and for some shapes your intuition will improve so that even if you can’t tell the status of the group at a glance, reading will be faster.
it would be more useful to have 2s / move mode and to get max win-streak as the goal
then you would not try stupid brute-force endless reading if you don’t remember and would use intuition
The time needed per problem varies a lot from level to level, so it would be hard to finetune this “2s” time so that it fits everyone. With 30 seconds total time, my idea was that everyone can feel motivated to try to improve their personal best.
