Reflame
Hello,
Im am Pavel Jelínek, Prague, Czech Republic
Email: pjel@centrum.cz
Please, if I unintentionally break any Etiquette or any rules, tell me.
My KGS userid is also Reflame. After a long stagnation around 16kyu I wished a fast progress and my wish was fulfilled, when KGS shifted ratings in September 2006, so I was 10 kyu :-)))))
In January 2007 I started to take some medicaments and my ability of concentration dropped and my strength stagnates.
As for my playing style:
- I know the proverb "when in doubt, tenuki", and I obey it. But because I am almost always in doubt, I often tenuki when I should not.
- I love the proverb "the best ko-threats and ladder-breakers are those that your oponnent will believe that they will work" - but unfortunately, this style never works with oponnents above 22 kyu.
- I laughed very much when I read the page about "would not it be nice" style. I laughed for many months. But then I wept, when I suddenly realized that I play this way very much.
- during a ko fight, I never see whether I am a ko-master. All I can see is that I am not a go-master.
- when I see a group, I do not know whether it is alive, dead or whether it is "ko" - all I know is that it is "go".
- I heard that strange things happen at the 1-2 point, but (in my view) strange things happen everywhere (my groups that seemed perfectly alive are dying etc.)
- I heard that professionals play lightly, willing to sacrifice some stones. Well, in this sense, I play extremely lightly (not quite voluntarily).
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