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Hi
I'm a student at MIT, and I've been playing go on KGS as Shaydwyrm since mid-February 2004 (and more recently as Warded). I'm happy to give teaching games to anyone 6 or more stones weaker than me, so feel free to message me if you'd like. I also play regularly at the Massachusetts Go Association. Additionally, I have recently been taking part in JadeGarden's KGS Mentoring Scheme. If you want me to mentor you, and you are 20k or weaker, feel free to ask.
Current Progress:
16k by Apr. 11
15k by Apr. 17
Account is now unrated, will start a new ranked account soon...
May 6: New rated account "Warded" started.
Coolest page I've seen on SL: Point Popularity By Move Number
Some of my favorite shapes:
![[Diagram]](../../diagrams/50/d5c98e7364af604024b0e2becfc1aa93.png) | Double Keima Thing |
It just looks cool, in my opinion... Also, I don't think Big Bulge is nearly an elegant enough name for it. I prefer something like "keima triad".
I am becoming less infatuated with this, despite its apparent popularity, since I have a lot of trouble managing the pincer stone afterwards. I'm trying to force myself to consider the benefits of either a more severe 1-space pincer or a more relaxed 3-space pincer instead of this, which seems to be something of a middle ground. Still, it's far too early to give up on it just yet.
My inventory of books:
- Elementary Go Series - all are extremely useful, although some overlap with other books. In particular, In The Beginning overlaps with Opening Theory Made Easy quite a bit.
- The Direction of Play - very interesting. I will have to see whether I improve from reading this.
- Basic Techniques of Go - I don't like this book very much so far, but many people seem to like it, so I'm not giving up yet. It seems a little prescriptive in the handicap chapters I've read so far.
- Graded Go Problems for Beginners Volumes 1-4
- Opening Theory Made Easy - I love this book! It also got me interested in the games of Otake Hideo, which I find to be very interesting and very stylish.
- Lessons in the Fundamentals of Go - this and Opening Theory Made Easy probably have had the most profound influence on my game. I am reading it for the second time now. It's also a very fun read, Kageyama is a bit of a character.
- The Second Book of Go - unfortunately, when I read this, it didn't have much to offer me. If it had really been my "second book" it might have been more useful.
- Get Strong at Tesuji - not too far into this yet, but so far it has paid a good amount of attention to making good shape, so I like it.
- Get Strong at Life and Death
- Get Strong at the Endgame
- Five Hundred and One Opening Problems - This book is quite excellent
- One Thousand and One Life and Death Problems - As is this one. These problems are good for building a basic instinct about life and death (or opening, for the previous one) situations.
- Making Good Shape - this one seems pretty difficult (also has rather a lot of typos, including one on the cover!). The main thing this book has done for me so far is make me consider alternatives to the hanging or solid connections.
Stuff I don't own, but have read or will read soon:
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