I love tea… I love go… I had many ideas for a new go related blog post, and 30+ samples of tea to review, but … i have a job, i have a daughter … and i always have too little time to study and play go, and to really have a relaxed tea session… […]
(again revised) beginners mind – my way of tasting tea
If you reading my tea tasting notes, that`s maybe because you are a tea (and most likely puerh-) fanatic like myself. You might already know every active tea blog in the webs, and take time to even flying over this little one… that`s nice! Welcome 🙂
Chaozhou Gongfucha & 2005 Mengku „Zheng Shan Da Ye“
Vendor: Yunnan Sourcing Producer: unknown Origin: „Xiao Hu Sai area of Mengku county in Lincang“ Storage: Guangdong (relatively) dry storage Link: Tea at Yunnan Sourcing For this session i used 5g in a 75 ml gaiwan with hot filtered tab water, wich was during the session mostly around 97° to 99° Celsius some general thoughts […]
thick & green: „2007 Dayi Hou Qing Beeng“
Name: „2007 Dayi Hou Qing Beeng Tea Cake (701)“ Vendor: Sampletea Producer: Menghai Origin: unknown Storage: unknown Link: this tea at sampletea.com
In Search of Lost Tea: „Ying Ming Hao 1980`s“
Name: „Ying Ming Hao 1980`s“ Vendor: Aged Taste Producer: Tung Xing Hao Factory Origin: Yiwu Storage: „Natural Hong Kong Dry Storage“ Link: Tea at AgedTaste.com
Celebrating autumn with „2004 Nan Jian Phoenix Aroma Aged“
Name: „2004 Nan Jian Phoenix Aroma Aged“ Vendor: Yunnan Sourcing Producer: Nan Jian Tea Factory Origin: Wu Liang Shan (in the county of Jingdong in Simao aka. Pu`er) & Yun Xian county (Lincang) Link: Tea at YS For this session i used 6,5 g in a 100 ml gaiwan with boiling water. If you want […]
Want some earth with your earth? „90’s CNNP Guang Yun Gong Beeng“
Name: „1990’s CNNP Guang Yun Gong Beeng“ Source: Sampletea Origin: „processed and compressed in Guangdong“ Link: Tea at Sampletea For this session i used 9 g in a 150ml celadon teapot with boiling water. If you want to read some thoughts about my way of tea tasting: beginners mind
„2000 Yi Wu Shan Aged Raw Brick“
Name: „2000 Yi Wu Shan Aged Raw Brick“ Source: Yunnan Sourcing Origin: Yiwu Storage: wet!! Link: Tea at Yunnan Sourcing For this session i used 6,5 g in a 100ml gaiwan with boiling water. If you want to read some thoughts about my way of tea tasting: beginners mind
Long game, deep breath
This was a quite long game i played at #kgs against a 4kyu as 5kyu. We used all of our time. I think around move ~137 all changed, up till there i think i was quite ok. First it was not that easy for me to accept, that i finally messed it up and did […]
Only the here & now
Hi everyone! Hope you doing well and i hope you have the luck to spend more time than myself on a REAL goban playing somebody you can watch in the eye while playing… and not like me, only internet go on kgs. But let`s stop complaining, it`s fun anyway… and maybe i will make it […]
a „full stop“ … to go on
Hi again! As i wrote in my last post, i was very busy the last two month shooting a documentary movie. Now, a lot of things have changed in my life, mostly to the better… 😀 As i already had several different phases / thoughts about the topic of „Go-Blogging“ etc. in the past… i`m […]
Go Seigen & the direct approach
Recentyl two fellow go bloggers, Bengozen and Michael Henseler, were discussing two important general questions 1. What is my favorite go player, the one on which games i focus most of my studys on? 2. What is my own playing style? Do i really yet have one? If not, what style would i play if i […]
Tsumego Lab – Let`s take a break again
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
Before & after No.6 – WBaduk VIDEO Challenge
Hi there! Sometimes running a go blog is a bit annoying… for example if i want to spent some time with go study and ending up with doing wordpress/website things for the blog, without really looking at a single stone… this time i spent now more than about 10 minutes allready thinking about the question […]
A preventive measure: No games without review
Hi there! Maybe you have noticed that i did not write anything here recently… i was using the time i had more for playing games and some study and somehow did not had much extra energy to write a new update. But i made some drafts for new posts, and thought about a maybe very […]
Fighting is the essence [ Quote ]
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„The theory of the Korean style is that the key to the game is fighting. Territory should come from fighting because then it is the most secure. Territory that is made without fighting will have weaknesses that you must worry about and fix later. Everything gets played out in fighting so there are no lingering […]
Quick Review
Just a quick review of a fast automatch kgs game i played this morning.
A dream comes true / ASR game review
As i mentioned before („To conquer one’s weaker self: Starting from Zero“) after i have realized that i have cultivated soo many bad habbits in my go i really tried to change that. And it was very motivating that i somehow could beat a dan player in a even game in the ASR league, just […]
WBaduk Challenge / Game 7 and 8
So, here again my latest two WBaduk games. I played them before i – once again – started to question the way i approach go and wrote this post about that: „To conquer one’s weaker self: Starting from Zero“ Do you know that feeling, when reviewing you feel 2 stones stronger, but in the actual […]
To conquer one’s weaker self: Starting from Zero
Today, after i played a lot of games in a row, and lost almost all of them, i was asking myself a question about my go: should i totally rethink the way i aproach the game? Should i try something like starting from zero again? Today i had some personal things that were troubeling me, […]
Before & After No.5 (follow up)
This is mainly a follow up to yesterdays post: Before & After No.4
„Go“ the Zen Way: the art of loosing
A discussion at twitter evolved after i shared the first part, up to the word „war“, of this quote : Go is really a interesting game, because even if you win in all battles, you may lose your game, because go is like a war, you should control the game, not only one part.“ by […]
Before & After No.4
Hi there, welcome to another „Before & After“ (for more info read post No.1 ). Today there is a kind of special challenge to do. Recently i joined „European Yunguseng Dojang“ as spectator. As spectator you can`t play games in the „league system“ but you can send your „homework“ and it will reviewed in form of […]
WBaduk Challenge No. 6
Hi there, here comes another reviewed WBaduk game (more info here: WBaduk Challenge). I continue with posting every „TruthAndGo“ (my WBaduk Username) game here… it is the only one i played (at Wbaduk) until last update. Even while i realized that i did played careless (bad strategy) it is a good way to have this […]
Tsumego Lab No.1 – a magical land called „dan“
For some introduction see: Tsumego Lab 0.1: What`s wrong with my tsumego technique? As go players, we might all have at least one thing in common: we want to get better… we strive for a deeper understanding of the game… we want to play the best move. So, you all heard this a thousand +1 […]
Before&After No.3 – a Little Bit Closer
For todays „before & after“ (link to first post which explains the concept) i have set a simple goal: after the game i will try to replay as many moves i remember on a real go board.Nothing more special, i feel a bit tired, it`s 9:30 pm and it`s my first game for today. I`m […]
(updated) Book Review: „Segoe Tesuji Dictionary“
As i said in a previous post, i`m focussing on L&D problems at the moment, reading L&D by James Davies and try to spent my „go time“ mainly for „Live and Death“ practice/study (as contrasted with study of „tesuji“). But, a few weaks ago i was reading about the „Segoe Tesuji Dictionary“ (link to SL) […]
On focussing
Maybe you noticed the new page „goal setting“, i created it about 2 or 3 weeks ago, and i now realize that my plans on how many books i want to finish soon… are not very good. I’m reading a book of Leo Babauta (yes, the minimalism guy) at the moment, and he explains: to […]
Before&After No.2 Losing & „The Go Challenge“
So, ready for another „before and after“ (click for info about this series) game. As you might have read in my last post, i`m having some kind of a „losing streak“ and it feels suddenly like i lost 2 stones. But it is ok, even when this is going to continue for a while, it […]
“Before & after” no.1
Today i will try something new… directly combining two things: 1. Playing games 2. Update this blog Maybe some kind of „series“ will originate … so, the idea is: I start with a blog post like this one, in which i describe the current state of my go progress, do i feel, more or less, […]
Quick review
Mostly i try to, if i write a review, do it with much time and as detailed as possible, but often, i wait too long… and the game then is not as interesting any more for me, as it would be right after playing it… That is the reason why i write this NOW … i […]
WBaduk Challenge No.3, 4 and 5
Here just a quick update with all my latest WBaduk games. (More info here: WBaduk Challenge) Almost without comments this time, just a few variations.
Old & Beautiful French 16 mm Go Video
@osmoticferenc (The Eclectique Prism) was sharing this wonderful Go video on Twitter recently. You don`t need to understand French to enjoy it 🙂
Game Review by A. Dinerchtein / Bengozen vs. Eyecatcher
Here comes another review by Alexandre Dinerchtein 3p Enjoy!
WBaduk Challenge No.2
Ok, today just a quick review of my „Wbaduk Challenge game No.2″ It was not a very interesting or good game, i played bad moves and lost clearly. Funny is when you see the second game… it is not from Wbaduk, i played it at KGS right after i lost the game at Wbaduk… i […]
The WBaduk Challenge no. 1 / Review by Alexandre Dinerchtein
Maybe some of you know my WBaduk history… starting out with my KGS rank i was quickly fallen in to the low double digit kyu realm (= realm of fire, torture and pain 😈 ). But i made a new account recently, starting again from 6 kyu. Of course i was loosing the first game, […]
Tsumego Lab No. 0.1 What`s wrong with my tsumego technique?
As almost every more or less serious go player, sooner or later, at one point accepts: in order to become stronger or even to reach true dan level one has to develop good reading skills. I once was meeting a go player of dan level who claimed that he never did tsumego… but apart from […]
The Freedom To Play Wherever We Want
Maybe you noticed i like the quote of Takemiya Masaki: You should look at the board and play wherever you want to. This is the way to get stronger.“ But today i want to try to explore a bit, what this really means, and maybe what this does not mean. First of all, it seems […]
The pretended ASR game – Dan Player Review
Today i share a very detailed and interesting game review. SimeonG (HelloQtion on KGS / about 1 ~ 3 dan / twitter: @iGoPau ) from the Go club in france: Club de Go de Pau was following my study journal twitter account and was offering to review this game, for free. The review is very high […]
game review: BenGoZen vs. Eyecatcher
This is a more or less detailed game review of my game with BenGoZen. I started with Tengen and BenGoZen played 5-5. After the game, even while BenGoZen was winning he regretted to play 5-5. I regret a lot of moves as well… but not opening with tengen, i like this opening, even while i […]
Fresh Design for „Truth And Go“
I moved this blog from blogger to this self hosted wordpress.org site. That`s it. In case you wanna know: the main reason to do this was in order to be able to use the „full view“ of Eidogo…[see below!!!!:))] one can now enjoy the games with the „variation tree view“ as we known from the original Eidogo.com website.
Intuition is good, reading is better!
So what`s going on lately in my go live?I started again to play frequently at KGS, for some time rated as a 4 Kyu, now back to 5 kyu. But that`s fine, i think 4 kyu was highly overrated… i won some fast games by luck. So… i`m still not very good at Life and […]
Why Do You Play Go?!
Recentyl i was writing this tweet and got some interesting replies which i want to share here! (some people send their answers after the post was published, feel free to send me your answers via Twitter or the comment section, i will add them as well) Nate was sending a good one via the […]
Tsumego everywhere
It’s been a while, when i was reading at the 19×19 Go forum in a post from John Fairbairn ( here is the post, some of you will allready know it: lifein19x19.com ) about a „new“ or just very usefull method to solve tsumego aka. life and death problems. To make a long story short: the advice […]
„Truth & Go“ – about this blog
Hi, my name is Amon and i play Go since 2008 soon after seeing the movie „PI“, in which one can find 2 Go related scenes, i joined the Go club in Hamburg (Germany) and became a enthusiastic player. Also i only make slow progress, Go became a very important part of my life. If […]
Dark, yet clear as a kyu player
Hi again internet go baduk weiqi world! After some break because of the birth of our daughter, i`m back. I don`t know how much i will keep this blog updated, but it feels wrong to play and study again without blogging again, i think it just became a habit. Here a game with relativ detailed […]
The „thinking game“ and the „feeling game“
So far it works fine with having 2 accounts, one for short games in between and one for long serious games. But often i found my self playing fast (and sometimes stupid) moves even when i still have long thinking time. This has to do something with my personality and it makes a good example […]
What about english Go-Tv Channel!?
Imagine there would be regular Go-programms on (english) TV!? Found this on youtube and found it quite amusing to hear with what they come up to fill the time. They did not have the opportunity to do analysis on a extra board like in Korean and Japan tv and soo they do a lot of […]
Very nice quote!
I read this today at twitter, i think it is a very nice quote: „You know, the five reasons the Go Bible tells us we play go never mention winning.“
Something funny…
I found this randomly at youtube… i think it is a bit funny because he explains everthing a bit over-enthusiastic… but anyway he seems to be a nice guy and people who are not knowing anything about baduk can learn something with this video.Have fun with this introduction into the world and rules of Baduk! […]