Usagi

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I play as usagi 2d on KGS, and maintain 1d* accounts on Cyberoro and IGS. The account names on IGS are secret because the admins there don't believe I am really a dan and keep locking my account.

I am currently ranked 3 dan in Taiwan. In the past, I had practiced Tai Chi Ch'uan for health for more than 10 years but I gave it up to learn Go (Wei Qi), because I feel I am better suited to it.

I run the Advanced Study Room on KGS. EDIT: Unfortunately just when you thought it was safe to start running an online go club... hard times have hit and I am unable to make it online to my usagi account these days. To make matters worse, I accquired a case of pneumonia last week and recently got out of the hospital to write this. But things are going well, I hear that the ASR is doing well without me. Good luck guys.

When I took lessons from willzhang I realised my main problem is that I am impatient and that I am looking for quick results without putting in the back end work neccessary to succeed. It was a lesson more than worth what I paid to accquire it.

Go Numbers

  • My willzhang number is 1 :)
  • My Alexander Dinerschtein number is 1.
  • My Solaris number is 1.
  • My tartrate number is 2 (through both solaris and breakfast).
  • My Cho Hun-Hyun number is 2 (through Kim Jung-Jin).
  • My Shusaku number is 6 (Honinbo Shusaku - Shuho - Kita Fumiko - Shiratori Sumiko - Michael Redmond - Alexandre Dinerchtein). My Shusaku number may also be 5; I have played Steve Fawthrop several times, and his Shusaku number is (unconfirmed?) 4. If it can be confirmed that Segoe played Iwasaki? or Shugen then my Shusaku number is 5: Shusaku - Iwasaki - Shusai - Segoe - Cho Hun-Hyun - Kim Jung-Jin - Usagi

My top influences are currently Go Seigen and Shusaku. I strongly reccomend the book "A Way of Play for the 21st Century" by Go Seigen, and "Invincible: The Games of Shusaku".

A wise man once told me in passing, "it is dangerous to try to become stronger". Many people harbor a fatalistic dream to become a professional go player, perhaps after watching too many episodes of Hikaru no Go. In truth there is not enough room in their life to support such an endeavor. Yet the dreams remain, and year by year they get stronger, but not fast enough, and then they graduate university. They wake up one morning and realise they need to work overtime for their job to be recognized in their field, and cannot possibly devote long hours to studying Go.

1. Memorize Ishida's joseki dictionary, and possibly the Fuseki dictionary too (Perhaps Rin Kaiho's?)

2. Study of Tsumego

  • I reccomend uligo and/or gogrinder.
  • I am the author of disort.sh, a handy utility to sort go problems from goproblems.com.
  • I am the creator/editor of gpc-usagi edition, available [ext] here.

3. Memorize professional games of one or perhaps two players.

  • I think I will focus on studying shusaku and go seigen, and how their play changed over their years.

4. Taking regular lessons from a very strong amateur dan, or pro player.

  • Currently taking lessons from willzhang 9d, on KGS.

5. Promote the game of go and teach go

  • Run a go club if there's a need. I started the Advanced Study Room in it's current incarnation on KGS.
  • I wrote some beginner's books usagi's books
  • Please read Benefits of Teaching Go
  • I try to offer at least one teaching game per day on KGS. I gave nearly 300 teaching games in 2006.

Something struck me recently, Seigen no Go... Someone on KGS asked me how to make a page on Sensei's Library. This gave me an idea: KGS Player Homepages.


Questions and Comments Below:

response to aftermath: as long as you can master the five points I said above you will become strong at go.


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