Level Up 7
Book on counting and winning capturing races
Level Up 8
Review hard problems from first 10 Level Up books
Making Good Shape (free pdf book) mark5000 series for beginners
Hunder book on capturing races
[dsaun’s shape lecture]
[Fran’s Library - first 350 cho chikun encyclopedia problems]
[elementary go series - Attack and Defense]
Jasiek - First Fundamentals
EasyGo (ios app) Basic problems using SRS study 321go.org Joseki Compass Opening Theory Made Easy
mark5000 Exercises for beginners problem set (link)
Graded Go Problems for Beginners, volume 2
[Markowitz 9x9 Game Walkthroughs vs. Igowin (Session #2)]
I’d also like to invite others to discuss questions about the content of any of these resources. I’m not very far along in my Go journey, but I’d be happy to try to explain anything I can. For example, I find that sometimes the explanations in the GGPB books don’t explain very much.
And if you have any of these resources and are willing to field questions from me or other readers, we could put your name here, too.
So the list I was keeping in the first post was starting to seem pointless. I want to keep making the list here, but I will try to extract and summarize a “one point lesson” from each review in this thread.
From the beginning! Note that OGS ranking system was super-tough when I started, and beginners stayed at 30 kyu for a long time. I’m looking back at these old reviews because I know sometimes people told me things that I couldn’t yet appreciate.
15 kyu (live): https://online-go.com/game/2523031 (Samraku, variations by Levvo)
15 kyu (live): https://online-go.com/game/2725557 (spatula, see comments and variations)
15 kyu (live): https://online-go.com/review/76738 (TNL game with Artur Trofimov, review by wurfmaul 1d) (my review: https://online-go.com/review/76838)
14 kyu (live): https://online-go.com/review/77223 (Levvo ladder game with Wulfenia)
- 1 point lesson: Learn joseki! 3-3 invasion, double hane, invader
escapes and makes ponnuki on side
13 kyu (live): https://online-go.com/review/77533 (kitten reviews game against spatula)
- chapel on 3d line not always a loss
- avoid the armpit hit, it gives free moves
- question gote moves. is there a sente alternative?
13 kyu (live): https://online-go.com/review/78439 (Levvo reviews rank ladder game against Samraku)
- Answer versus Pincer concept: "there are only 2 possibilities in every joseki. You can either answer a move, or pincer it."
- Move 35: don't attach to weak stones
- Move 131: seven or more gives you life. "If I'm reduced, am I still above seven?"
- Don't forget that seki is life.
- Move 164: middle game checklist:
- Lots of stuff here, dumbed down to my level. :smile:
13 kyu (live). https://online-go.com/game/2930576 reverse komi game against Samraku
- When to tenuki and when not to. I tenuki'd from a fight twice to make big plays. Apparently those weren't good decisions.
Samraku: " You only want to build points in the center if you can do it in sente by attacking something". From review
yuri: “from what little i’ve been able to learn, taking territory directly is a losing game. if you take territory by chasing your opponent, thats how to win because when your opponent is running, they aren’t making any territory themselves” From review
[14:45] saxmaam: What's the difference between a "free move" and a "sente move"?
[14:51] terr: a sente move is a move that starts a combination in the end of which
you've accomplished something and it's still your turn
[14:54] terr: and a free move is a single move that you can make because your
opponent has a "hole" somewhere and has to protect it after your move, so
maybe you don't achieve something yet but
you have that extra stone there that may be useful in the future
[14:55] terr: it's like you don't lose anything playing that move, so it's free:)
Hi @saxmaam you could ask me about GGPB I am at volume 1 and I sometimes look in volume 2 randomly. After the first volume i want to start Cho Chi Kun’s Encyclopaedia of life and death which it hasn’t answer so no explanation.
2015/09/12 5 handi saxmaam wins as white
2015/09/24 5 handi saxmaam wins as white
2015/10/04 6 handi Nanashi wins as black (B + .5!)
2015/10/15 6 handi samaam wins as white (W + 24.5)
2015/10/15 6 handi samaam wins as white (W + 24.5)
2015/10/26 6 handi samaam wins as white (W + 38.5)
Like a lot of people, I am capable of turning a fun leisure time activity into a stress inducing list of chores.
I think the following routine on most days is a good balance for me.
Correspondence turns - don’t play too many games at once!
A live game - competitive or fun. Enjoy playing at my own level. Don’t stress about things I don’t know yet. Play moves I understand, or at least I understand my own intentions. Stay in the habit of playing live.
Progress in a systematic book of Go study. Like Level Up, for example.
Some other study. Articles on Sensei’s Library, or another Go book, or a game review. Find one nugget of new understanding and that’s enough.
EasyGo’s SRS study
9/29 forward - Corr turns, live game, Level Up Review 1, Level Up 6 (10/6 finished Level Up 6), EasyGo
10/6 forward - Corr turns, live game, Level Up Review 1, First Fundamentals (10/6 finished Level Up 6), EasyGo
10/10 forward - Corr turns, live game, Level Up 7, First Fundamentals (10/10 finished Level Up R1), EasyGo
I wonder if there is a “Get Strong at Dropping from Correspondence Tournaments” book somewhere. While I’m doing observable progress in that direction, extra guidance wouldn’t hurt.
Chapter 1. Quitting the Ongoing Tournament
Chapter 2. Not Signing Up for New Tournaments
Chapter 3. Resigning Hopeless Games
Chapter 4. New Tournaments, New Temptations
Hmm… Dropping from tournaments by not joining them in the first place… That’s would require Zen master’s level of enlightenment. Way too deep for me. I’ve only progressed as far as signing up for tourneys in advance and then signing out when they are just about to begin.
Reminds me of when Harry in “Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality” decides that not telling McGonagall about what happened when he was being sorted would be the sort of thing that he would look back on in twenty years and think to himself: “That was where it all went wrong”. But the thing was, twenty years ago happened to be right now. It was so easy to change the past as long as you thought of it at the right time.
That’s as close as I can remember to how it happened.
I worry because she suddenly didn’t turn up again in a game we’re playing, which is very unusual for her … and she also lost a few games on time around that time. Also didn’t reply to PMs on the game server. I’ve paused the game (not a tournament game) but … I’m worried.
I remember a while back we played quite a few games. Hopefully she’s just burned out on go temporarily; looking at her games history it looks like she has a habit of playing a lot for a time, and then not for a while.
Hey y’all, I’m fine!! OGS mysteriously quit sending me any reminder emails and I … lapsed! I admit I’m not feeling the Go right now. But I’m alive and I’m sure I’ll be back to play again.
