GO Log - August 29

A must-document moment, winning my first in-person game of GO. This is how you catch the bug, feeling like youve improved, learned, and reap the rewards of actively studying. Beating someone who you know is much stronger than you through a handicap difference. A poised application of knowledge, accumulated through weeks of losses. The reward of effort’s equivalent exchange to consequence, so great. I want to continue to rise. I am akira toya. I am hikaru shindo. To rise is to rise in humility, and show intellectual prowess, hunger, ambition, vision, confidence.

after-thoughts:

• we see and hear how important cutting points are, but the extent of them, and the allowance of sentei is provides, was made more clear
  
• do not overextend vision of territory in early games, strong and proper joseki is more important
  
• establishing bases often effect the opposite sides of territory, where cutting points again come into play
  
• establish rules for yourself in letting you take bigger steps, more important and potentially reaching moves first
  
• try fighting out, see where you can make potentially deceiving moves, and with strong base, you often see great sentei moves
  
• practice reading and playing out the board in your head, wirhout reliance of computer move-reading
  
• the psycological and physical way you play the game heavily effects territory presence, how safe or scared you may play, how difficult it is to read complex conflicts