Coyote's Go Training Blog
Welcome to my Go Training Blog. This is where I will be tracking my training on things like tsumego problems and replayed games.
Current Rank:
18K
KGS: Coyotebd 18k?
DGS: Coyote 17k (won a bunch of games on time)
I came to Go a couple of years ago through a collegue. Where I worked we were encouraged to play games during our downtime. Soon after learning the game I was giving stones to those that had taught me. When I peaked I was able to beat the person who'd introduced Go to my office and won a game against a 10kyu club-player who'd given me a 4 stone handicap.
Due to the vagaries of life I stopped playing around that time, and it isn't until recently that I picked it back up. Now I'm studying to regain my strength, and although I'm thrilled to see my rank climb, my goal is to play strong games against good friends I will make along the way. I'm looking for a friendly local club online.
hey ty its john how are things
why do you let folks highjack your blog. Just kidding, hey man how are ya. Still working at global domination.
Future Reading
Next Books
- Graded Go Problems for Beginners Vol. II by Kano Yoshinori
- 1001 Life and Death Problems by Richard Bozulich
- Lessons in the Fundamentals of Go by Kageyama Toshiro translated by James Davies
Suggested by Charles Matthews in "Shape Up"
- Learn to Play Go Series by Janice Kim
- Multiple recommendations
- Get Strong at Tesuji by Richard Bozulich (
Kiseido)
- Tesuji and Anti-Tesuji of Go by Eio Sakata (
Yutopian)
- Proverbs, Max Golem? translator (
Yutopian)
Read
Pros I'm Studying
I'm going to keep a list of pro's I'm studying who have styles that I think fit my own preferences. The idea is, if studying pro games puts the proper shapes into your brain, I want not to study pros who rely on fighting for success if I want to be a patient, shape orientated player. These style choices are from Professional Players Go Styles. Right now I'm focusing mostly on Takagawa Kaku.
Shape
Quiet/Patient
Thick
- Cao Dayuan
- Ishige Kakuo
- Kataoka Satoshi
- Mimura Tomoyasu
- Segawa Yoshio
- Takagawa Kaku*
- Yang Jinhua
- Yu Ch'ang-hyeok
Discussion:
I am 19K, what should I be studying? Discuss
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Thursday, Sept 21st 2006, 9:25pm EST
I've been gone for a long time now, yet hope glimmers on the horizon. I've begun teaching a new student the wonderful game of Go. I hope I haven't forgotten too much in the meantime.