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shodan in a summer skip to main skip to sidebar shodan in a summer tuesday august 07 2007 i am out of hiatus i will try to be substantial i will probably fail kgs is down kgs is down kgs is down kgs is down dddddd x___x posted by maria at 9 58 pm 1 comment monday march 05 2007 this is a substantial post for a change keep in mind i m still lowly 4k so this probably has issues so far 3 5 has served me moderately well i play double 3 5 paired with 3 9 as black and ommitting the 3 9 as white opponents generally decide to approach from the top either low or high i have seen the low approach most often as my opponents choose to take the corner at this point i can play at either o or p16 that s the ideal situation it gets messy when it doesnt work though like that or something eh it just gets messy i find not much wrong with this opening as i feel it suits me pretty well higher level players seem to think it really weird though i guess i ll learn whats wrong with it when the time comes i think one of the main issues with this opening is i end up with a possibility for a moyo and then i play the exact wrong move the walls i get from this give me really nice influence but sometimes i lose territorially i remember this happening at congress a lot a lot of the games i play rely on something dying or some weak group i can chase around because of the walls wow this post sucked posted by maria at 6 40 pm 3 comments thursday february 22 2007 clan joined blue moon clan got toastcrumb to 1k timshel is now solid 1k but due to losing consistantly not winning consistantly xd i feel about 2 3k in strength i found out my double 3 5 has a name jabberwock posted by maria at 11 07 pm no comments saturday february 03 2007 improvement whoo 4 27k 2 stone promotion a series of bad puns jinqianhan i m dangerousus violence mingjuice the go player drink violence it s got a taste that ll make you say gooood a move i hate losing won games havent played anything noteworthy in a while posted by maria at 10 34 pm no comments wednesday january 24 2007 dang haven t posted in ages stupid finals stupid school in any case this is pretty awesome i m getting close to shodan aga shodan at least i went 5 0 against 5ks and 4ks at the jujo tournament now i m just waiting for the aga to update their ranks i remembered one of the better games at my level i don t think i played particularly good games just my opponents managed to mess up multiple times and i could take advantage of these screwups i also learned how much i love komi posted by maria at 3 51 pm 1 comment tuesday december 12 2006 go essay as cliché as it sounds it was love at first sight the smooth curves of the bi convex stones the satin sheen of the board and the sheer simplicity of the game all attracted me go itself is a paradox there are really only three rules yet it is an intricate game beneath the facade of simplicity lies deep strategy and countless millions of permutations it is a highly mathematical game yet mathematical genius does not lend itself to strength of course i did not believe this when i started playing in my junior year it seemed like just a fling it s a silly old game i said i ll master it in a year i said and a year later here i am still a middle ranking player 5 kyu by the american go association standards i failed to reach my goal but that hardly means i failed completely go was an attempt to connect to my culture my heritage my past it embodies so much of eastern culture as well as philosophy go is a representation of life which at the premise is simple yet we derive so many complexities from it this is similar to taoist philosophy which preaches the simplicity of life go is rooted in the history and soul of east asia growing up asian in america i am caught in a conflict of culture of this culture clash arises a persistent and awkward struggle conform to both identities while still assimilating into american culture in short i abandoned a part of my heritage for an awkward identity that did not fit i drew apart from my culture for too long because in the end i am chinese and always will be i should never have allowed myself to let that go my parents told me all the time to be proud of my five thousand year heritage but i did not realize its importance until much later on and now that i do understand i try to connect back but its like attaching a severed limb i can only hope the endings can heal and again become a part of me yet i have learned much more from go than just cultural lessons go teaches life beyond the typical lessons about dedication and perseverance go has taught invaluable lessons it punishes greed a greedy move may result in losing much more it teaches sacrifice sometimes one will have to give up something to stay alive and in the end it s not about winning or capturing your opponent it s about maintaining balance and harmony with your opponent s moves however the most important lesson i learned from go is humility after a few winning streaks i began to think i was pretty good but the truth is i wasn t i quickly became arrogant and overconfident but when this happened i began to lose and i continued to lose until i managed to suck up my pride and listen advice from stronger players this pertains to life as well sometimes my pride gets the better of me but i need to remember that no matter what i do there will always be someone above me no matter how well i play i will never be a match for the masters of old it s a bittersweet yet reassuring feeling maybe it started off as a harmless pastime but it surely isn t that way anymore go has allowed me to improve pattern recognition skills as well as combinatorial game theory but beyond that it s given me much insight into not only my heritage but into life itself go is life posted by maria at 10 46 pm 1 comment sunday november 26 2006 i live i swear i m alive schools been getting me down ish i haven t been playing much i keep losing to 4ks so i wrote a college essay on go i think that counts oh my aga rank is now 5 998 boo posted by maria at 3 45 pm 1 comment older posts home subscribe to posts atom go go is an asian board game over 2000 years old the rules of the game are simple as are the elements lines and circles black and white wood and stone two players black and white take turns playing on the board the game is played on the intersections of the lines and stones do not move once placed on the board the goal of the game is to control the most territory though the rules are so simple strategy is immensely complex however this game is incredibly versatile it can be relentlessly violent or surprisingly peaceful this blog chronicles my forays into the game and my goal of reaching shodan one dan blog archive 2007 5 august 1 i am out of hiatus i will try to be substantial march 1 february 2 january 1 2006 30 december 1 november 1 september 1 august 9 july 10 june 8 links google news chiyodad s go blog fathwad the shodan year nanny ogg s go 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