Recruited NAOL Opponent for BenKyo League

I almost always promote the BenKyo League to my opponents in both the NAOL, and also in the Go Magic League.

It paid off this time and my opponent showed up the next day in BKL where I was happy to welcome him.

Here is the ending position of our game which he won quite handily.

We had a member join BKL this week who said that they joined based on reading this blog.  So please if you decide to join, tell Ben that buzzsaw sent you.

Now for my usual Go Activities Content:

It was a fairly active week for Go Activity with nearly 22 hours spent.

I managed to play ten games, all of them being league games.

Giving Up on The Western Server Challenge

I thought it would be easy to play 100 blitz games this month, but it has stopped being fun, and I think it has hurt my game.  After taking a break for a few days I find myself in a position where I would need to play over 5 games per day in order to meet the challenge. That doesn't sound like fun to me. I also find myself playing poorly in my League Games after having played so much blitz in the first half of the month. It is time to stop playing blitz and to refocus my attention.

Now for my usual Go Content:

Since I took a break this week it turned out to be a week very low in Go Content with fewer than 14 hours being spent.

Look forward to seeing more league games being played next week.

32 Games Played in the Western Server Challenge.

 

So far I have played 32 games in the Western Server Challenge.  I have 21 more days to finish the challenge which will require me to play on average 3.24 games per day, so I am just barely keeping pace to finish just the 19x19 games. 

I've given up on the notion that I might achieve the Grand Slam by playing 100 13x13 and 100 9x9 games as well. My rank has gone up as high as 8k and dropped as low as 10k which doesn't bother me at all.  I am currently 10k and have considered stopping now and letting my rank sit there, but I am likely to finish.

My only regret is that I may not have enough time to play the Title Tournament games necessary to hold onto my title in the BenKyo League of The Hand of God.

Now for my usual go content:

It was a fairly active week with over 23 hours of Go Activity.

I played only three games outside of the blitz games for the Western Server Challenge.

I'm going to have to start fitting in some more Title Tournament games when I finish up the WSC games.

Let's Go Baduk School - My Husband Tries Go

For forty-two years I have been trying to get my husband to learn how to play go.  I started off when we first met. I tried to teach him on a 19x19 board with nine stones of handicap because I knew no other way at the time.  That didn't go well.  He's told me that he isn't wired to play go.  I've tried over and over again to get him to play with no success.

Recently I think I have convinced him that he and I could have more quality time together if he would become a part of my world and embrace the go community with me.  I am actually hoping that I can eventually get him to join the BenKyo League.

But how do I get him interested?

Recently I found an iPad app designed to teach children how to play go.  I have convinced my husband to watch one chapter at a time and to play through the problems at the end of each chapter.  Today we completed Chapter One of the Korean Academy's App called Let's Go Baduk School.

Here is my husband answering questions.

Here is his reward for completing Chapter One.

Completing Chapter One wasn't too painful for him. He actually wants to repeat Chapter One another time before moving on to Chapter Two.  This shows me that he really wants to learn the material.

I am also working through the chapters of the program. There are quite a few of them and I am about halfway done. The first chapter that offered any challenge at all was the chapter on Mutual Life.  I did get a couple of them wrong the first time. Here are the 24 Chapters I need to complete.

You can search for this program on the Apple IOS App Store. I think it is also available for Android. It was $2.99 and I feel that the money was well spent. I am happy to be able to use the program with my husband. Perhaps I will finally make a go player out of him.

Now for my usual Go Activities content:

It was an active week with over 25 hours spent on Go Activity.

I played eleven games with all of them being League Games.

As of the time of this post I have already started to play in the Western Server Challenge.  The games are blitz and are taking about 20 minutes each to play.  I have already played 12 games in three days so I am well on track to complete 100 games of 19x19 before the end of the month.  I hope to increase the number of games I play daily so I can start on the 13x13 games before long.