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DeathWind is my main account on KGS. I am currently 1d on KGS, 1d on Tygem and a certified 1 Dan in Singapore. I have been playing GO since 2003. Like many others, I first got interested in the game from reading Hikaru no Go manga. With regard to the opportunity to learn Go, I am lucky to be here in Singapore because there are classes held in Singapore that are ran by professional teachers from China, and Go books are readily available in some of the bookstores here sold at reasonable prices. I would highly recommend subscribing to Weiqi Tiandi (围棋 天地) magazines which have many commentaries and tips by professional go players on played professional games, joseki, fuseki, yose and so on. Those commentaries helped me a lot in understanding the moves made by professional players.


How to improve?

- Reading Do lots of Go problems pertaining to Life and Death, Tesuji and Yose.

- Joseki, Fuseki Study and memorise professional games

- Review your games

- Get teachings from professional players


Etiquette

- Respect all players regardless what his or her rank is.

- Avoid forcing move opinions on people. There is always a possibility you might be wrong.


Game discussion

- The quality of any move or line is purely subjective. There are no absolute 'good' or 'bad' moves or lines. Everyone is entitled to his or her own views.

- Have an appreciation for all variations regardless of what you think of them. Please don't kick up a fuss when people bring out a move or line you think is not good. It is a normal part of reading out lines and moves.

- If you never point out any possible better moves on your own moves in the game, your review is probably one-sided and biased.


In Game

- Psychology: Be calm and objective

- Focus on finding the 'best' move

- Know when to start/stop attacking/defending

- Tenuki whenever appropriate

- Sacrifice stones to get sente or to make walls/good shapes

- Use dead stones as aji

- Only consider overplaying if you are white in handicap games

-Misc advice-

- Don't play if you are tired


Special Tactics

- Deviating from standard plays/moves: joseki/fuseki.

I don't stick to standard norms. I think it keeps my game dynamic.

- Responding to sente with a sente move. You forcefully created a sente when you could have been in a gote situation.


Views on Go Playing

  • General

- I value a lot putting in the effort to read thoroughly. Most people err because they have missed out some lines or made inaccurate readings. Time should not hinder one's reading, getting the right moves is the important thing.

- Doing problems, studying professional games, learning josekis are more important than playing the game with people. In fact, that's how professional players train.

  • Moves

- If a move can give you a good result, it is a good move, regardless of its rarity, oddness or how bad people think of them.


Bad Habits to Avoid


My Favourite Professional Players


Personal Advancement in Rank

2006 July 18

  • 21 Kyu (KGS)

2006 July 19

  • 20 Kyu (KGS)

2006 July 19

  • 19 Kyu (KGS)

2006 July 19

  • 18 Kyu (KGS)

2006 July 20

  • 17 Kyu (KGS)

2006 July 21

  • 16 Kyu (KGS)

2006 July 23

  • 15 Kyu (KGS)

2006 July 28

  • 14 Kyu (KGS)

2006 July 31

  • 13 Kyu (KGS)

2006 Aug 5

  • 12 Kyu (KGS)

2006 Sep 19

  • 8 Kyu (KGS)

2006 Sep 30

  • 7 Kyu (KGS)

2006 Oct 16

  • 6 Kyu (KGS)

2006 Nov 12

  • 5 Kyu (KGS)

2007 Feb 9

  • 4 Kyu (KGS)

2007 June 15

  • 3 Kyu (KGS)

2008 Jan 29

  • 2 Kyu (KGS)

2008 Feb 18

  • 1 Dan (SGP)

2009 Dec 21

  • 1 Kyu (KGS)

2010 Sept 6

  • 1 Dan (KGS)

My Games in KGS

[ext] http://www.gokgs.com/gameArchives.jsp?user=deathwind


Guestbook


Vincent: Hi Deathwind, welcome to Sensei's Library! All your contributions are just great but if you could use the Minor Edit feature we would appreciate it. Thanks.

xela: This is a tricky one. Many of Deathwind's edits do actually change the content of a page, and therefore shouldn't be marked as minor edits. However, all of the consecutive edits should show up on recent changes as a single edit--I wonder if the SL software is malfunctioning in some way.


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