Nachtrabe
About Me!
Recently joined the Bayou Go Club.
Currently ranked
15k on KGS. Though I play 2-3 stones stronger at the local club, and I have no idea exactly how strong I am.
Games in my head
Reasons I started memorizing games
- Improve my subconscious understanding of the flow of the game.
- See how joseki are used. How they are applied in a whole-board context.
- Improve my ability to memorize games (first time I saw a player recreate a game he had just played in front of me I went "wow! I want to do that!")
- My theory is that the games will be easier to memorize for me when I understand the way the stones move.
The last two reasons, however, are probably the biggest:
- When I simply watch or replay a professional game, I have a tendency to shut my brain off and just move stones. Memorizing forces me to try and understand the moves and doesn't let me just mindlessly drift.
- It is kind of fun :-)
Mostly for subconscious reasons, and while there may be "better" or "more efficient" ways to learn, I figure it can't hurt me and it has helped so far.
Favorite Players
My Style
My style is ever-evolving as I get more in-depth with the game. Obviously from my favorite players list, however, I like fighting and complicated games.
In terms of fuseki my current favorite when I play black is the Mini-Chinese. When I play white I like to play 3-4 points with White 4 is an approach or 4-4 Points, depending on my opponent and where exactly my opponent plays.
Primary weaknesses I am working on.
- Reading. Where I am strong at theory for someone at my level, I am weak at the actual reading (except for ladders). This means that plays that "should not succeed" do more often than I care to admit.
- Having several weak groups.
- Underestimating the value of the center.
- Responding to my opponents moves (I'm getting better at this).
- Minor, idiotic, errors.
Contributions to SL
On Sensei's Library I've been contributing by updating pages about professional Korean players, particularly (though not exclusively) female professionals, to include up-to-date information on rank progression, titles, and names written in Hangul. For Korean women's titles I've been including a list of past winners. Nothing major in either case, but this way I can feel like I am actually contributing.
I'm going to list the players here as a quick reference to those I am going to try and update when I hear about promotions, etc.
Players:
Tournaments/Titles:
How I Study
- The bulk of my Baduk study time is devoted to the study of amateur games--mainly my own and people around my rank (usually past opponents, but not always).
- I play games, of course.
- Reading books and working out positions.
- Studying professional games.
- Studying Life and Death, etc problems.
Baduk Bloggy Thing
I moved this to a separate page.
/Baduk Blog