Posts Tagged ‘article’
Yamashita defends Kisei title
Friday, February 23rd, 2007
Yamashita Keigo Kisei defended his title with 4 straight wins against Kobayashi Satoru.
It was a young vs. senior match, and the young one won – which seems to be the rule in professional Go today, rather than the exception. See my coverage of this year’s Kisei title.
From Novice to Expert
Friday, February 16th, 2007
Novice: Hey dude, so what’s better here, A or B?
Expert: Hm,…, er,… C.
Novice: What? Why???
Expert: Trust me.
Novice: Year, right…
What is this all about? It is about the Dreyfus Model, which lists stages in skills acquisition that apply to most domains – including Go, I believe. It explains, among other things, why professionals don’t seem able to explain to us the reason behind their moves, and why we shouldn’t be frustrated with this. I wrote an article on this.
New lesson – “Direction of play… and bad habits (2)”
Saturday, February 10th, 2007
I added a new lesson today: “Direction of play… and bad habits (2)”
It is about what to do (and what not to do) with black in the following position:
If you want to improve, play a lot of fast games
Friday, February 9th, 2007
I added some details to the “play a lot of fast games” advice – see this page. Just briefly, it’s not about playing with time limits that make you cry all the time, but it is about pushing yourself to play with lower time limits than what you are comfortable with.
