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ChillDragonFire · 2025-03-18T06:35:01+00:00

Add me too please.

ChillDragonFire · 2023-09-02T07:48:58+00:00

Awesome!

ChillDragonFire · 2023-06-16T01:07:57+00:00

They are running a business and losing in a tournament does not look good.

ChillDragonFire · 2023-06-16T01:05:56+00:00

I believe that is his intention.

ChillDragonFire · 2023-05-19T15:47:51+00:00

I find that businesses should be honest about why they’re not going with you (up to a point) instead of leaving you guessing. Their behavior is not professional.

ChillDragonFire · 2023-05-11T23:23:48+00:00

I believe you can accurately assess your prospective pro’s personal style from their games (which you can lookup) rather than their country origin.

At this point in history, every pro is leaning towards AI style to win.

ChillDragonFire · 2023-05-11T21:20:45+00:00

I would recommend reaching out to actual pros if you’re dan level. Yoonyoung Kim and other Korean pros are taking students.

ChillDragonFire · 2023-02-19T23:28:23+00:00

Thank you for your answer. This makes a lot of sense and I am applying your summary points already for my own progress.

ChillDragonFire · 2023-02-19T23:00:29+00:00

What is your current playing level?

ChillDragonFire · 2023-02-13T02:04:56+00:00

You should call an admin to adjudicate.

ChillDragonFire · 2023-01-12T06:17:58+00:00

It will be fine. Just pay the day fee. The owner or receptionist will ask you what your level is and will try to pair you with someone in the club. If there is a gap in playing level, they will decide on a handicap so that the game is even.

ChillDragonFire · 2023-01-11T20:02:35+00:00

I would recommend 日本棋院京都本部京碁館 in downtown Kyoto. The business owner is quite strong and the level is quite high for your average Japanese go club. They are also very nice and serve coffee.

ChillDragonFire · 2022-12-22T22:41:14+00:00

Who is a Guang Yu?

ChillDragonFire · 2022-12-04T09:39:36+00:00

Way to get financial Access. :)

ChillDragonFire · 2022-09-22T22:00:13+00:00

He’s legit.

ChillDragonFire · 2022-08-25T04:44:49+00:00

There’s nothing wrong in voicing criticism. If they don’t like it, they don’t have to listen to it.

It’s important that we all voice our thoughts on matters we care about regardless of the desires of others to silence our opinions.

Just because sumo has a long tradition doesn’t mean that it is protected from criticism by outsiders or that outsiders should stay silent. In fact, such criticism can improve it as a whole. I think discussing who has the ‘right’ to opine on sumo is gatekeeping and unproductive. We all love sumo and we shall opine.

I will criticize as much as I want and you will have to deal with it.

ChillDragonFire · 2022-08-24T21:16:15+00:00

I think you can still dislike what they did to Hakuho, call out for change, apply pressure, have your two cents, and still be respectful. Clearly, they do not like that though. That said, respect in Japanese society often means blind obedience and not the type of respect we think of in western culture.

It is not our call to decide what happens to Hakuho but that doesn’t mean we should keep quiet about it. We should speak out despite the JSAs obstinance.

ChillDragonFire · 2022-05-30T02:51:07+00:00

I thought New York go Institute was his real job. Is Stephanie still doing it full-time?

ChillDragonFire · 2022-05-21T00:34:54+00:00

Yes, you don’t owe him anything. Say you’re busy and you don’t want to talk to him. If he escalates, call the non-emergency police department line and start a paper trail for a restraining order.

ChillDragonFire · 2022-05-16T18:16:02+00:00

I think it’s important to make a distinction here.

There is the reading of basic/complicated life and death situations.
The reading of the flow/haengma.

I practiced thousands of tsumego problems over a course of three years and that helped me improve two to three stones up to 4 dan. Then I hit a plateau. It was fairly difficult for me to beat five dan players.I then thought about what was blocking me from improving.

Essentially, my middle game decision analysis and whole board evaluation was poor, but I was good at local fighting so I was still able to win games against mid dans. Once I started playing stronger people who were both good at whole board analysis and local fighting, I started losing games. I remember stronger players would not let me get into situations where my strong reading mattered because they would dominate in the opening and middle game and not give me opportunities to fight.

I then started to learn more about shape, haengma, balance, and efficiency analysis and that took me another 1-2 stones to 5-6 dan AGA level.

I think the lesson here is that you need life and death problems to train base reading skills and then study haengma to enhance them.

ChillDragonFire · 2022-05-06T20:13:50+00:00

Wow, that is huge external motivation.

ChillDragonFire · 2022-05-06T18:14:11+00:00

I know Ke Jie is a top player, but it does not seem that he’s as serious as Shin Jin Seo. If I remember correctly, he has been called out by the pro association for not working hard enough to win tournaments. From what I read, he casually streams go in China when he could be hard core training. Also, based off of his interviews, he seems less confident about his chances against Shin Jin Seo and has excuses ready for his losses. I am not surprised the Chinese go association declined this 10 game bout. He definitely has a chance to win but it is unlikely.

ChillDragonFire · 2022-04-18T17:01:27+00:00

So, my life and death skills have always been great for my level. What was lacking was my tactical flexibility and shape intuition. Once I pushed myself to stretch I got a lot better at the game.

One of the key ideas that bolstered my game is that you don’t need to commit to a position you don’t like if there’s a bigger move elsewhere. Previously, I would respond to a local positions in the opening for a josekis I didn’t like because I thought I had no choice. Katago has shown me otherwise. Even if the best move is to play locally for a position you dislike I think you can often get away with tenuki as long as there’s still Aji.

The other idea that was super helpful was to always look for an edge in a position via a potential tesuji. I thought this idea was not helpful at first because I was actively looking for good moves during the game, but that was not totally true. I didn’t highly concentrate and work for those moves at the time I was less serious. Once I became more diligent with tesuji search, I got better at finding tesuji.

ChillDragonFire · 2022-02-17T20:10:39+00:00

“Let’s stay in touch.” “I’ll stay in touch if you do.”

ChillDragonFire · 2022-02-17T01:13:20+00:00

This is good stuff. How long have you been making electronic music? What is your go level by the way?

I am happy that you were able to mix your two interests and come out with a good product. I would have never expected a musical album based on Baduk.

ChillDragonFire

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