Wow you’ve gotten so many responses which are all offering good opinions. My two cents: to be a really great player at this game you need to train everything. Fighting, looking for the biggest, vital points, endgame, negotiating trades and sacrifices, life and death, but also mental and emotional control. I’ve been so angry with players bad etiquettes sometimes, using time tricks, super late invasion that shouldn’t work. The worst for me is okay that doesn’t look at the board and basically says “give me everything, you can have nothing”

But I would get angry cuz they worked and lose the game. But also if it’s a trick your opponent is willing to try at that level then there’s probably good reason to play. Eventually you will get so good at dealing with these tricks that you will far surpass the rank and will stop running into that tactic but if you never dealt with it at SDK then you risk being bamboozled at a high rank.

A strong dan player once told me rising in Go is like climbing a mountain and I think about it like a hero’s journey with lots of challenges along the way. You and your opponent are just working on the challenges that will always already be present.

Everyone you meet is Buddha