Tsumego Lab – Let`s take a break again

8. Juni 2014 by eyecatcher 7 Comments

For this „tsumego lab“ (click for some introduction) i will make a chronological attempt.

For this afternoon i will briefly document my tsumego study and my thoughts about it. (that was allready yesterday, 8.6.2014)

4:51 pm

I`m starting to continue with „1001 Life and Death Problems“ by Richard Bozulich, page 141, problem 561

problem 561, black to play

04:56 pm

took me 5 minutes to solve 561, why?

I was stuck in something like this… finally after 4 minutes i escaped the tunnel vision.

Wrong

4:59 pm

Solved 562

562

Happy that it did not took me 5 minutes again. Maybe i needed some extra time on 561 (the previous one) to warm up? 🙂 But still 2~3 minutes for this simple problem is still much too long! As i mentioned before, i`m really really slow when it comes to reading. Maybe that`s why i feel it is good for me to play many fast games, to improve this problem with slowness, to train to think faster.

5:00 pm

Solved 563

563

Ok, i`m getting faster.

5:01 pm

solved 564

(will not give to many pictures/problems, you should buy the book instead 😉 )

05:02 pm

Now, with this problem: Nr. 565 i finally reached a moment were tiredness did overcome me… i was just one second away from guessing, and looking at the solution… but maybe writing this blog post, did stop me… i thought, it would be a good thing to do, to take a break now!

565

I`m drinking some tea, i check some twitter… looking out of the window…

05:10 pm

Did overcome the tiredness … going on with 565 … solved with in 20 seconds – hahaha … so the conclusion: taking a break from time to time is good!

05:12 pm

solved 566

I think, from time to time, it is good to do much easy tsumego, it is very motivating to check the solution and see that one found the right one.

05:17 pm

Suddenly i have a blind spot/ tunel vision thing going on again… after 5 minutes i still could not see the solution for 567 clearly.

inside the tunel vision

I decide to take another break.
Open the window, let some fresh air in …
After rhe break, and about 3 more minutes finally saw the seki 🙂

05:24 pm

start with 568

568

05:27 pm

solved 568 Solved , starting with 569

05:34 pm

569

Still could not solve 569, after 7 minutes!!!

wrong

My wife and the baby are comming back home now, good timing to take a break.

19:14

Continuing with 569… and solved within 5 seconds haha 🙂

Again we learn: breaks are important … and maybe i solved this (actually very simple) problem in my subconscious.

Hope you enjoyed this tsumego lab! Next time, i will deal with more complicated problems and maybe it would be nice focussing more about the question how to approach a (difficult) problem in general.

http://www.bengozen.com/ Ben

Interesting series! The only thing I would caution against is to make sure you’re not republishing any of the solutions from the book since I believe there are copyright issues with that. However, obviously if you are tapping out your own solutions or variations, then no one can fault you there. Keep up the work!
- http://truthandgo.blogspot.de/ Eyecatcher
  
  Thnx for -again- being the only one out there droping a comment 🙂
  This post was a bit pointless… but as a series, doing various tsumego realted things, i think it is ok… i planed to write a bit more about my thoughts and feelings … because usually whenever i solve tsumego i kind of feel all the love and all the „hate“ (not really hate, you know what i mean) i have for go … 😀
  And for the copyright thing … when should not take this copyright stuff too serious … but yes, i was not given any solution from the book… and in the future i will not use fotos but only diagrams …
  It is hard to actually right much about tsumego … but i think it is -still- the most important thing for me to study at the moment.
  - http://www.bengozen.com/ Ben
    
    I understand. And as a reminder in case you ever forget, don’t forget that blogging should be fun. If you feel it’s starting to be a chore, it’s better to spend your time studying go, zazen or karate. =)
    - http://truthandgo.blogspot.de/ Eyecatcher
      
      haha, yes of course, i love blogging, and will continue, even when -nobody- would ever comment … but it was mainly a compliment for you and your work for the go comunity, if there is a go blog out there in the web … maybe it is linked nowhere and it is hard to find it via google… be sure to find a comment by Ben allready in place 😀 That is really ment as a compliment!
      For me, writing this post was great fun, but i think as a reader, the topic „tsumego“ maybe needs a bit more „taste“ … 🙂 we will see … i will write next „tsumego lab“ sooner or later…
      
      Cheers!
      
      And thanks for the Karate & Zazen reminder … no energy for Karate at the moment, but still, on the long run, plan to do … and to write about both more here =)
http://gosimplycomplex.blogspot.com/ RisingStar

Hey Amon!
Cool post. I’ve always had trouble working out of a book for tsumego because when I get the solution wrong, I find out what the correct solution is while checking. With a phone app for instance, it doesn’t tell me the correct answer, it just says something like „incorrect solution.“ Tell me what you think.
Thanks for the post 🙂
- http://truthandgo.blogspot.de/ Eyecatcher
  
  Glad that i was helping you to find the right book, it really a good one!
  
  Do you have a iphone? I can recommend you some apps witch are showing the correct solution as well!
  - http://gosimplycomplex.blogspot.com/ RisingStar
    
    I do have an Apple device. I’d love to see some recommendations. Thanks Amon 🙂

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