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ther for my visa application for england there s so much to do before i leave here are some pictures from our last day at the center this first one is zhang pei pei and xie er hao playing guess the next move in the pro game while we were playing this i started doing eeny meeny miny mo zhang pei pei loved it and made me say it every time afterwards she even got walther to do it a few times i wrote it down for her on the back of her kifu book on the right xie er hao hiding for our last day i requested to play zhang pei pei again as usual i resigned quickly until just a few days earlier whenever she played as black she would play as if she was playing white she d take territory in different places all over the board also she tended to play a bit slowly and wait for her opponent s mistake then she d pounce on it and attack yan laoshi told her that she couldn t do this against stronger players though because they wouldn t make that mistake she s waiting for and she d just get behind she listens to yan laoshi so in my game when she got black she played the low chinese opening playing me is easy for her but since she was trying to get her stones to cooperate yan laoshi was able to demonstrate that she got a lot more territory this way here walther is trying his luck against her in the afternoon on the right i m getting crushed by xie er hao walther brought a lot of candy with him from the u s so we gave out candy to the kids on our last day just before we left earlier i gave zhang pei pei a necklace of mine and she gave me a little stuffed animal dog on the tag of which she had written her name and the date she had a matching one and had me write my name and the date on hers we exchanged email addresses and birthdays before i left i got an email from her when i got home but all it said was hello i wrote back but haven t gotten a reply yet i will miss yan laoshi and his family and all the kids at the center i think i ve really learned a lot and more importantly i ve acquired a better idea of how to study and learn weiqi so that i can continue to improve time for some oscar style gratitude thank you first and foremost to yan laoshi for being such a great teacher and spending so much time with us thank you to his wife li a yi for welcoming us and making us feel comfortable thank you to yan sen their son and li zi li a yi s nephew for keeping us entertained thank you to liu yi for all the wonderful food thank you to li chen liu yi s daughter for helping me to learn some chinese and providing some extra english reading materials thank you to all the kids at the center for playing with us and teaching us thank you to all the other teachers at the center for the same thank you to my fellow students romain siu and walther for making this first year with yan laoshi an excellent one and for studying and learning with me thank you to siu and walther for translating so much for me thank you to rich my first go teacher for his continued support and finally a big huge thank you to guo juan for giving us this amazing opportunity posted by becci 4 40 pm 0 comments friday august 11 2006 last day today is our last day at the center i told this to zhang pei pei yesterday she pretended to wipe tears from her cheeks she didn t really believe that we would both leave walther too her mom seemed even more concerned that we were leaving her mom s english is quite good though she doesn t say much i think she just didn t really think about it we ve become closest to zhang pei pei who entertains us during lunch being a girl she has a slightly better chance at becoming a pro than the other kids at the center who are about her level i hope that at least both she and xie er hao become pros so that we can track their progress yesterday i went 1 1 again i lost to mah din rui after a bad move in our running fight he pounced on the opportunity to take advantage and i never got a chance to come back in the afternoon i played a kid who seems to be a bit older and who we think has played online a lot i think he is much weaker than most of the kids in the c group even though i attacked him from the wrong direction i won by over 30 points http www people brandeis edu rtorrey games becci_mahdinrui081106 sgf http www people brandeis edu rtorrey games kid_becci081106 sgf we seem to be experiencing the remnants of siu s typhoon yesterday evening the sky turned a frightening yellow orange color which looked an equally scary purple through our blue windows in the living room we didn t really get too much of a storm though now it s just raining really hard posted by becci 8 18 pm 0 comments almost done so it s almost time to leave i feel very sad of course but i also feel pretty satisfied with the go i ve learned over two months i may have advanced only 1 stone or so but i feel like it is a very large stone i feel like i m beginning to understand how the game should be played this is the first time i ve felt anything like an advanced player i m afraid to lose this feeling so i think that i will continue to have lessons from a professional teacher of course it would be nice to advance faster but in terms of sheer knowledge i don t think i could have learned much more i feel like many of the right principles are in place now so that i can try to play a good game but every game i play i see a new variation where i m not quite sure what to do how many more of these variations do i need to collect before i become another stone stronger well i shouldn t be in a hurry anyways i only have a couple of stones left to advance in my lifetime yan laoshi had an interesting analogy the other day imagine that the go school is filled with students of course looking for the door to leave some students who are clever like liu jia yi and zhang ling feng in the c group know where the door is but on the way out somehow manage to bump into the wall instead when these kids are serious they play well but they often play without thinking other kids may be told day after day where the door is but they still cannot find the door these kids are also unable to correct their mistakes posted by wchen 10 49 am 0 comments isn t that game othello here s the promised post on games using a go board and stones that are not quite go here the kids are betting on the next move in pro games li di wang the kid who played in the dan promotion tournament in the blue tank is winning by a lot a lot of games involve flicking stones another variation on flicking stones like marbles the rules for this one seem to be rather complicated othello it s not just because we wanted to get a picture of othello i ve actually seen it quite a few times at the go center posted by wchen 10 29 am 0 comments thursday august 10 2006 games from yesterday here are my two games from yesterday the first i resigned early after a slew of bad mistakes in the second my opponent made some mistakes yan laoshi said my endgame was good though it s not properly recorded here later when reviewing it he said it was an easy win he said i need to play stronger in some places and take more advantage of my opponent s weaknesses he also said that i tend to play better with black i m sure this is true but at least i don t feel totally uncomfortable with white as i did when i got here http www people brandeis edu rtorrey games becci_zhanglinfeng081006 sgf http www people brandeis edu rtorrey games liangqian_becci081006 sgf posted by becci 8 28 pm 0 comments wednesday august 09 2006 weiqi shi jue we have been memorizing the 10 weiqi proverbs i think proverbs is more appropriate than commandments in chinese we get quizzed often here they are in chinese i hope my attempt at the tone symbols is ok 1 bù dé tān shèng 2 rù jiè yì huǎn 3 gōng bǐ gù wǒ that s supposed to be a 3rd tone over the i 4 qì zǐ zhēng xiān 5 shě xiǎo jiù dà those are 4th tones over the u and the a 6 féng wēi xū qì 7 shèn wù qīng sù 8 dòng xū xiāng yìng 4th tone over the o 9 bǐ qiáng zì bǎo 10 shì gū qǔ hé right now i pretty much have them all memorized but for most of them i still can t remember what they mean so now i m going back and memorizing what they mean both the literal translation four words that give a general gist of the meaning and what they actually refer to in terms of weiqi since i started memorizing them in increasing order i m trying to memorize the meanings the other way so as to learn the last ones as well as i know the first few 10 shì power gū alone weak qǔ hé safe sometimes two characters are lumped together to give one meaning the idea here is that if your group is weak and alone you shouldn t try to run but just live 9 bǐ somebody else qiáng strong zì myself bǎo protect siu s translator said that this means when you are playing a strong opponent remember to protect yourself but it seems to me that it should be when your opponent is strong i e has strong groups near yours you should protect yourself 8 dòng move xū should xiāng yìng cooperation siu s translator this is translating yan laoshi s explanations but his translator was not a weiqi player said as in philosophy we should consider the static state and dynamic state the other day yan laoshi used this proverb in jest trying to get li a yi who was taking too long getting ready to go to leave with him we go together sort of thing this makes me think that this proverb might really be referring to the idea that when you have to run you should get your opponent to run with you 7 shèn careful care for wù no can t qīng sù too fast we should be careful and not be so anxious similar to 6 6 féng meet wēi dangerous xū should qì sacrifice this should be pretty obvious through siu s translator we are told that if you are weak you have to give up your plan to attack 5 shě throw away xiǎo small jiù save dà big this too is straightforward give up the small to save the big or play the big points and not the small points 4 qì sacrifice zǐ stones zhēng fight xiān first i think walther said that fight first refers to sente this is about playing lightly if you want to move quickly you don t want to be carrying a lot of baggage 3 gōng attack bǐ somebody else gù look after careful wǒ me we thought before that this meant that if you want to fight you have to protect yourself first but this came up in a game review and we realized that it really means or maybe also means that you should attack in order to protect yourself 2 rù enter jiè place yì should huǎn slow this is the look before you leap proverb if you want to invade you should check out the surroundings first 1 bù dé no don t tān greedy shèng win if you re winning don t be greedy perhaps walther or siu or guo juan can comment further on what the meanings really are posted by becci 7 06 pm 0 comments tuesday august 08 2006 game with yan laoshi perhaps the last i think yan laoshi said that we would go over more fuseki stuff today so our games with him yesterday may have been our last i won this game by the smallest of margins but not really i should have lost if nothing else i had a problem in the endgame that should have cost me 4 points but he didn t play it at one point i almost resigned because i had not one but two nearly dead groups we re not dead yet overall it wasn t bad though unfortunately my memory fails me so there are a few places where i have passes in the game record i believe it s just a matter of having the order wrong but i couldn t figure it out http www people brandeis edu rtorrey games yanlaoshi_becci080806 sgf this may sound stupid but yan laoshi mentioned some advice about dame points the other day he said that when you fill your dame the first thing you should do is fix any problems you have you can fill in the other dame afterwards not only that but like playing endgame moves you should fix your biggest problems first and fix subsequent problems in decreasing order of points posted by becci 9 08 pm 0 comments monday august 07 2006 more old pictures from huang hua lo since the computer internet connection seem to be running a bit faster these days knock on wood i thought i d post a few of li a yi s pictures from our trip a while back to huang hua lo the most famous building in wuhan so here are some pictures of us standing in front of the various attractions this is at the top of the tower there was artwork on display or gift shops inside each level of the tower li a yi and i in front of a big bell li a yi and the mothers of yan sen s friends posted by becci 8 49 pm 0 comments sunday august 06 2006 less than one week left we leave a week from yesterday morning we have a few days at home and then only three more days at the center it will be sad to leave the center and all those kids for the last time li a yi bought us plane tickets from wuhan to shanghai our flight to the u s leaves from shanghai unfortunately this flight takes us to a different airport in shanghai than the one from which we are leaving a friend of walther s dad is scheduled to pick us up and bring us to the other airport hopefully that will all go smoothly siu finally made it home after being stuck in hong kong for two extra days due to a typhoon we were nervous for him because he was scheduled to depart on the last day that his visa was good it ended up not being a problem because he was in hong kong instead of the main part of china walther and i ordered kaya boards to bring home with us they finally arrived yesterday after being sent to the wrong part of wuhan but it was quite a fiasco one of the boards is beautiful and the other is smaller and painted yellow it s awful but the one that is really nice has a really big dent gouged out of one of the edges from some mishap in shipping both have a couple of smaller dents on the top yan laoshi and li a yi were furious they called the company and kept grabbing the phone from each other to yell at them some more li a yi said she will call again today they said they are going to send two new boards and li a yi and yan laoshi promised that they ll be here before we leave if someone has to drive them here they said this is why people in china don t like to order things online or over the phone i would think that if you re going to try to pull something like this you don t send one nice board and one bad board and also that you wouldn t try to pull this on the local 7 dan pro i sure wouldn t have enjoyed being on the other end of that phone call yesterday i got a much needed break in the morning while yan laoshi reviewed the c group games from the day before i lost the only game i played yesterday a big group died in retrospect i might have been able to save it but i think my opponent would have obtained enough points in forcing me to live to win easily http www people brandeis edu rtorrey games becci_kid080606 sgf posted by becci 9 12 pm 0 comments contributors wchen becci links siu s china blog in dutch romain s blog in french audiogolessons go4go net gogameworld igo kisen kgs cyberoro previous posts final post last 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