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Beginner from Sweden. Started playing in February 2003 when a friend showed me the game (actually two friends.. they don't play very much nowadays, however, both are a few stones weaker than me now).

I mostly play on KGS as [ext] jagular, [ext] 5k, and I also used to play a little on DGS. Lately I have also played on IGS.

I think my biggest problem is reading (and tactical mistakes in general), but I somehow doubt that stronger players would agree. I plan to submit a game or two to the GTL, but I can't seem to find one where the major mistakes aren't obvious. I guess I should play considerably slower games (and actually use some of the time, I tend to play recklessly even in non-blitz games).

In desperate need of a teacher. I will probably have to spend much more energy overcoming my own bad habits than actually learning new stuff in the future if I continue learning just by playing fast games on go servers. :(


Books I have read:

Books I am planning on buying:


16-Oct-2003 - Borrowed Get Strong at Tesuji from a friend a few weeks ago and worked my way through it. I feel I have a slightly better grasp of shape and thickness now, if nothing else. Also started to look at some professional games, but I'm not sure how much that will help my game at this stage. Currently 6k on KGS. Also played in my very first tournament last month, outside the lovely city of Linköping. Entered as 5k (swedish kyu-ranks are supposedly somewhat stronger than KGS ranks [1]) but didn't do well at all - won only one game out of five. It was fun, though. :-)

26-Oct-2003 - Started working on the problems in Graded Go Problems for Beginners volume four, which i borrowed last weekend. Many of them are quite difficult, especially the life and death ones. I will solve the rest (150) of the problems next week, and then probably move on to Get strong at the Opening. Now 5k on KGS.

1-Nov-2003 - Finished all the problems and reviewed them briefly (flipping through the book and recognizing the vital points etc). Many of the difficult ones I still can't read out, even knowing the answer. :(

One of the shapes from the book appeared in a 5d-game on KGS today, which made me kind of happy (though I certainly realize that I'm not supposed to actually remember all the corner formations, but rather be able to read things out when necessary). Of course, he played the correct sequence and killed the corner. Black resigned shortly thereafter. :)

I will revisit this book in the future, surely. Anyway, I'm moving on to the next book, Life and Death. Also started playing on IGS, where I seem to be about 3k. I like the KGS atmosphere much better, and CGoban2 is really nice, but is much easier to find strong opponents on IGS, and my old computer doesn't really like java..

Next weekend I will play in another swedish tournament, [ext] Göteborg Open, this time as 4 kyu. If I have enough money by then I'll also pick up some of those books everybody tells me I should study. :)


[1] This is of course contradictory with the information given on Rank - worldwide comparison, but minismurf told me so. :-)



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