I have noticed (and been told) that my Study plan is heavy on study and light on playing. This has always been the case with me. Perhaps it is my academic background.
I think that I would profit greatly from playing more and studying less, so I am going to try to be more balanced this year. I will begin by playing one game per day whether I want to or not. I am hoping to get these games reviewed by stronger players, not just play them. I want to learn something from the games I play. Once I can successfully play one game a day and get it reviewed I will try increasing to two games when possible.
Another thing I want to do is to count up the games I play including my lesson games, club games, and tournament games. I want to see how close to 1,000 games I can get this year.
Amazingly enough, the person I started to mentor online at the end of January has played nearly 5,000 games on KGS in his first year of playing go. This has brought him to a solid 10k from 21k, and he is now more my study partner than my student. I find his dedication to play to be amazing and inspiring. I would never hope to play that many games in so short a period of time, but I ought to be able to get 1,000 games under my belt in one year if I really try.
I believe that the proverb is 1,000 games to shodan. Perhaps that may have been true in the days when games were face to face, and were hard to find. Or it might even be true today if they are slowly played, spaced out in time, and well reviewed.
If I do manage to play (and mostly review) 1,000 games this year it will be interesting to see just how much of the gap from 9k to 1d I am able to bridge.
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