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Hi. My name is Marek Bernát. Presently I am studying physics in Prague. I learned to play go in the April 2007.

Here's my KGS [ext] rank

I also want to play in some live tournaments this year (2008). I already did attend one the previous year (summer 2007), but I was so weak I decided to wait a bit. Also I was quite surprised by the rank difference. On KGS I was about 10k in the summer, but in the tournament they told me to play as 16k and still I lost almost all my games :-) But I suppose the difference is lower in the higher ranks, e.g. it is said that EGF and KGS dans differ by stone or two.

Useful stuff to study

Game memorization

Right now (beginning of 2008) I am working my way through Killer of Go. I found it useful to memorize some games. Not learning them by heart, but to try to get a little grasp of every move so that I could tell where the next move will be mostly by reasoning and only sometimes supported by memory (so maybe memorization is not a very good name for this process). This helped me quite a lot in memorizing my own games with no effort. Really, sometimes I just try to replay my games and I can go without any error 100 moves or so. I am sure I can achieve complete subconscious memorization in time. I really like this. Some months ago I thought that only very good players (e.g. high level amateur dans and pros) could do this, but now I see it's absolutely natural.

Combinatorial game theory applied to go

Also, I am trying to get a little grasp on CGT, infinitesimals and related stuff. It took me quite a while to even get started, given that there is no starting point (it is like learning words from a dictionary that only explains them by other words you don't know). So some good concise introduction would be really helpful. Still, I am infinitely thankful to Bill Spight for creating all the articles. In some discussion I saw someone asking, if anyone had understood the concepts just by learning them on SL, without previous exposure to CGT. So yes, I have. Believe me, it can be done. It just takes time and thinking (the more of both the better). I still have a way to go, but basic building pieces are in place now.


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