Reading
Reading.
Tricky, yet useful.
I have been trying to discpline myself to read out many different possibilities each move. It's much harder than it seems. It's so easy to get get complacement and just play, play, play.
But I found that more I read in game, more stronger I can get, because I'm starting to notice different aspects of the game. What if I tried something? What if I played one point to left to my "natural instinct"? What if I can force my opponent into a shape that favors me? If I can't ladder, what are my alternative options? How can I keep sente much as I can?
Reading is truly difficult to do, but more I improve at it, game gets more and more interesting because the board starts to open up, and there are more possibilities for me to toy around w
Tricky, yet useful.
I have been trying to discpline myself to read out many different possibilities each move. It's much harder than it seems. It's so easy to get get complacement and just play, play, play.
But I found that more I read in game, more stronger I can get, because I'm starting to notice different aspects of the game. What if I tried something? What if I played one point to left to my "natural instinct"? What if I can force my opponent into a shape that favors me? If I can't ladder, what are my alternative options? How can I keep sente much as I can?
Reading is truly difficult to do, but more I improve at it, game gets more and more interesting because the board starts to open up, and there are more possibilities for me to toy around w
posted by Flame at 7:21 AM
1 Comments:
One thing I find fascinating about Go is that altough there are very many empty places to play, and it's easy to think 'oh, it's just one point to the left' , even adjacent spots on the Goban are not only 'the same idea slightly differently', but are dividing universes of followups! If I play just one spot to the left, she will be able to, say, invade, or use the shape's concentratedness, and then her game will allow me all new different possibilities she herself opened up by doing what my own play allowed her to do. If I don't play one spot to the left, if it's well understood by both players, it's a whole different story! That is, because Go is a binary game. Compared to an analog one, like boxing, where a hit a little bit above will still hit, but, say, not his chin, but his eyes. Or, it may not set his balance off, but will still hurt. :)
However, one can play Go in an analog way: next time, time to aim on his head with the stones :D
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