Most of my post this week is dedicated to my weekly visit at the Princeton Go Club.
Sunday, October 4th
I logged into the Awesome Baduk discord and noticed a video for Bent Four in the Corner for the 10k to 15k level, and I watched it.
Monday, October 5th
I hit a new benchmark at The Internet Go School, I have completed 2,700 days in a row. Well, not literally in a row. You earn vacation days, and if you miss a day, and have a vacation day to use, you keep your streak. On the day I hit 2700 days in a row I had nine vacation days left.
I spent a good deal of time reviewing games today.
Tuesday, October 6th,
I listened to the new Star Point podcast and the new All Things Go podcast. I should probably save one or the other of these podcasts for later in the week to spread out the go podcast goodness a little bit. I'll have to think about this.
I attended the BKL tsumego group.
More Level 2 problems in Tsumego Dragon
- 33 Loop/Ko
I spent a good deal of time working on go problems created from a recent lesson with Ben.
Wednesday, October 7th
I attended the Princeton Go Club tonight which made me really happy because I was unable to go last week. I played two games, and had a great time. Winning both of the games was a plus, but I think I would have been equally happy if the games had gone in the opposite direction by the same margin. Both of the games had very small margins. These are the types of games I like. The games where I die big, or simply lose by huge margins from bleeding point, are both demoralizing, but I think I am taking them well. When I lose by fewer than ten points I feel as if I played well, but a little less efficiently than I should have.
The first game of the evening was with Hochul. We played a game with 78.5 points of reverse komi. We based the level of komi on the results of three games we played one night in quick succession. That was well over a month ago, so it was definitely time for us to play again. All three of those games were five stone handicap games. The first two games ended in early resignations by me after something died. Ben told me, when he reviewed those games, that both of those resignations were premature. Hochul and I got the last game to go to scoring in an attempt to get a handle on what a proper handicap ought to be. It ended up being a fairly decisive victory for Hochul. We decided that, as a result, a seven stone negative komi equivalent would make sense. I won our game tonight by 5.5, which makes us believe that we have found a good handicap.
Here is our game on Better Baduk.
The second game was with Andy. We had played three times previously, and have not yet zeroed in on a proper handicap. Our most recent game was three stones, but had been quite a while ago, so we decided to try three stones again. I asked Andy to choose between reverse komi and stones. He chose stones. We had a very close game, but I squeaked out a victory. So it appears as if three stones is a good handicap. I've won twice at three stones, and I think that we probably ought to observe a three-game kadoban with rank changing after three consecutive wins for one player or the other. I was disappointed in my recording skills in this game because I messed something up on the game record and had to abandon recording very near the end of the game
I found out later that I had accidentally given white 7.5 points of komi when I set up the game. I later fixed the metadata to reflect the correct komi. Better Baduk gave me this message when I did that.
Here is our game on Better Baduk. This link reflects what the AI estimates the score to be when I stopped recording with the corrected komi.
Hochul was kind enough to fill in the extra stones on the board to replicate the final board position. I took a screen capture of that, and here it is. (However, this result still reflects the 7.5 komi error.) So it is probably actually B+ 10.5
Andy brings out the best in me according to Better Baduk's estimate of my rank in the game with him compared to my rank in the game with Hochul.
Against Andy, I am 5 dan.
Compare that to the Better Baduk estimate of my rank based on the Hochul game, where I am 8 kyu.
Thursday, October 8th
I started my day with spaced repetition problems on The Internet Go School. I lost another vacation day earlier this week, but it is what it is. I just have to be better about remembering to do my problems. Today I came upon an easy problem and had to laugh because I will surely be dead when it will come around again. I will be well over 100 years old in 34 years.
BTW, this is not a one move problem, but it was super easy.
I had a lesson with Ben today. We reviewed the two games I played last night at The Princeton Go Club where I will share the reviews.
Friday, October 9th
I again spent a good deal of time working on creating go problems.
I lead my usual tsumego group tonight. We used Tsumego Hero.
Saturday, October 10th
I attended Ben's Study Group Class today. The subject of the class was reviewing your own games. It was a great class. One of the things Ben recommended is to review the game without AI first and, assuming you are using OGS, drop a variation for every move you feel is questionable, or that you want to follow up on. I tend to be guilty of not reviewing my games myself. I depend on my teachers to review them. I have a lot of lesson time to spend, and relatively few games to review, so it is easy to get them all reviewed by my teachers. Ben's class today convinced me, however, that I will get more from my lessons if I review my games on my own ahead of time. I've already noticed that when I have bothered to click through recent games before a lesson, I get more from the lesson. When asked for alternative moves I am more likely to come up with good ones, and the game feels more fresh.
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