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Ses,
I'm beginner, playing regularly on KGS, nick gimpf. Although this page is somewhat unnessary, uninteresting and I didn't provide anything to this community yet - it exists nevertheless. My next goal is to reach some level of skill so I can provide more than just useless information about myself.
2003-09-09: I start wondering about ranking systems more and more - though at the beginning it was clear, that those systems cannot provide any help because of lack of data, it get's now little bit strange... KGS ranking is going steady up, even, if there are some times when I lose 10 games in a row, therefore making me 18k now, and wondering losing against a 26k, giving me 2hc by about 80 points on IGS... Dashn shows it's korean soul when asking for the inital rank, lowest possible: 18k. Seems in Korea you get 18k when born, what maybe doesn't even differ from reality so much. Either ranking systems are really just "most randomized" instead of "most likelyhood", especially in double digit kyu play, or the servers differ *extremly*. By the way, I'm losing on DGS against some 28k too - what also makes me then think, because after half a year playing go, knowing the game and rules for nearly as long as a year, some mistakes aren't funny anymore, and this "I'm too stupid for everything"-phase also known in the very beginning is arising a second time... Getting motivation alone from the fascination about the game is hardly possible... Any tricks jumping around there waiting to be catched? enough: I'm about where you are. I've only been playing for a few months too. I found that my game improved the more I practiced problems on gobase. I've also picked up a couple of books. Lessons in the Fundamentals of Go is the one I'm currently banging my head on. It's very good so far. After you read a chaper a few times it starts to sink in. And remember, practice, practice, practice! Velobici: play, play, play. think about your games. review your games. Get Graded Go Problems for Beginners. Get 1001 Life and Death Problems. Use force feeding on the problems in the book in groups of 50. Do the current set of problems every day. All this will make you stronger at fighting and reading. Reading is the basis of everything. You must read well enough to support your strategic plans, else all will come to naught. Evand: I agree very strongly with Velobici. If you want to improve your game, work problems. Lots of problems. Easy problems in particular -- something you can do in 10-30 seconds per problem, and get most of them right. Graded Go Problems is excellent (Except for the answers being in the back -- that's one of my personal pet peeves for go books; answers on the back of the page is much easier). Play lots of games. Especially games taking high handicap, but not entirely. Also, play some slow games if at all possible -- think about *every* move, and consider at least the two moves after it, and consider at least one alternative. Also, worrying about your rating is unlikely to help. Especially in double digit kyu ranges, at least in my experience, learning new concepts can result in losing a string of games; this is a natural part of the process, don't worry about it. And finally, try to get game comments from stronger players. Finding someone a number of stones stronger and having them point out a key area or two to work on can be quite helpful. Whatever approach you take, good luck with it. gimpf: Thanks for the comments, misreading is indeed one of my biggest problems - for "worrying about your rating": I just wanted to point out that it seemed to me I'm playing half a year without any progress... Nevertheless, the next thing after improving reading, or maybe even more important, is to overcome my low frustration barrier - it seems to hinder any consequent learning in advance... thx again This is a copy of the living page "gimpf" at Sensei's Library. ![]() |