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… […]
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
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 […]
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, […]
„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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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.
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 […]
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.
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 […]
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! […]
Kill the center group and win the game
I have not much time at the moment, so here a game with only very few comments. See you, have a nice game! (;GM[1]FF[4]CA[UTF-8]AP[CGoban:3]ST[2] RU[Japanese]SZ[19]KM[0.50]TM[1500]OT[4×80 byo-yomi] PW[eyecatcher]PB[Riccardo]WR[6k]BR[7k]DT[2013-04-23]PC[The KGS Go Server at http://www.gokgs.com/]RE[W+Resign] ;B[pd]BL[1498.515]C[Riccardo [7k]: have a nice game eyecatcher [6k]: hello, have a nice game ] ;W[dp]WL[1482.416] ;B[dd]BL[1497.284] ;W[qp]WL[1478.418] ;B[jd]BL[1491.922] ;W[qf]WL[1466.432] ;B[nc]BL[1489.276]TR[nd]C[B7 is wrong i […]
The Surrounding Game Extended Trailer
I think you know this already, but in case you don’t … enjoy 🙂 “Competition and faith are my life-long vocations. Like water and fire, I depend on both. When I couldn’t outrank the others, it was time for me to leave. There are two things in my life, truth and Go.” Go Seigen
GAME 3 The WBADUK „Problem“
I started to play at Wbaduk again… mostly fast games (account: „Amon“) … very frustrating. After about 20 games i was fallen to 14 Kyu! (At KGS i`m solid 6 kyu). About 1 year ago i was writing about WBADUK before. See my older Post about my problems at WBADUK here: http://www.truthandgo.com/?p=60 Now again my goal […]
Game 1
Here another review of one of my games… mostyl in english.Wie schon im letzten Post angkündigt werde ich all meine Spiele mit meinem KGS account „Eyecatcher“ hier veröffentlichen … evtl. ein guter Trick um sich auf ein möglichst hohes Konzentrationsnivaue zu bringen. (;GM[1]FF[4]SZ[19]AP[SmartGo:2.8.3.0]CA[UTF-8]GN[gustiql]PW[eyecatcher]WR[6k]PB[gustiql]BR[6k]DT[2013-03-21]PC[The KGS Go Server at http://www.gokgs.com/]KM[6.5]RE[W+15.50]RU[Japanese]TM[2100.0]OT[2×70 byo-yomi]C[I played white. ];B[pp]BL[2094.6];W[dd]WL[2072.7];B[pc]BL[2092.2];W[dq]WL[2043.3]C[Next to play at […]
How to play a better game?
In order to to break through some obstacles: 1. From now on i will have 2 KGS accounts … one for „serious“ games with high concentration and one for casual games. Every game i play with „Eyecatcher“ (KGS) will be published here. I will play those games totally serious and with all effort. 2. Will […]
Truth and Go online again… ab jetzt eher in Deutsch!
Dear Go fan, i will reactivate this blog again! But this time at least 50% in my native language which is german! But to stay in contact with all english readers … i will try to have allways some content in english as well. Not sure at the moment but for example: short english game […]
No more updates at „Truth and Go“
I will never stop playing Go but my study at the film academy is very time consuming and while i have several other hobbys as well … i think i should stop with writing about my Go-progress. At the moment it is hard enough to find some time to actually play … Maybe i will […]
Loosing games – learning why
In the last time, i`m not very successful, i lost most of the games i played.That might have to do something with the fact that i`m working on a documentary film right now, that keeps me busy most of the time. But anyway i think it is not wise to always look for a excuse […]
„The one with the lost chance“
I was white. Time: 20 min + 20 stones in 6 minutes canadian time. B7: I do not know much joseki W8: Not very common, but possibleW10: Maybe my first mistake, has to be at p4.W18: I thought there is a chance to live with the 2 stones at Q5, but they got killed. W58: […]
Many Games & Many Thoughts
As i said before, i will go on with publishing here e v e r y long game i play,with at least some written thoughts about it.Here are 8 games i played recently…comments and ~ variations are included in every one of them. The one which was easy to play (;GM[1]FF[4]CA[UTF-8]AP[CGoban:3]ST[2]RU[Japanese]SZ[19]KM[0.50]TM[1800]OT[5×30 byo-yomi]GN[pedometer-eyecatcher]PW[pedometer]PB[eyecatcher]WR[5k]BR[6k]DT[2011-11-22]PC[The KGS Go Server […]
Winning a lost game
Sometimes you win a game, but afterwards you realize that you indeed played badly and that you only won, because of some more or less unexpected mistakes of your opponent, who was playing, until some blunder, better than you! Here are 2 such games: „The one which was won late and with some luck“ (;GM[1]FF[4]SZ[19]AP[SmartGo:2.8.3.0]CA[UTF-8]GN[eyecatcher-hanganBC5]PW[eyecatcher]WR[6k]PB[hanganBC5]BR[6k]DT[2011-11-20]PC[The […]
Takemiya Masaki vs. Rin Kaiho and Sakata Eio in the back (middle)found here: http://www.goeverywhere.asia/
The WBaduk Challenge – Part. 4
Again i lost against a 16 Kyu at WBaduk (while i can win every now and then against a 5 Kyu at KGS).First i was very frustrated about this, but then realized that even if go is a serious game, one should never forget to see things with humor. My excuse is always: I was not […]
I highly recommend you to read this blog:
http://gooften.net/ Antti Törmänen is studying as an Insei (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insei) in Japan! He writes about Go Theory, Japan, his experiences at the Nihon Ki-in and several other things.I just discovered this blog via twitter yesterday, and i`m very exited to read it from the beginning. And today it is „Go of Ten`s“ first birthday! Congratulations and good […]
The One With Many Weak Groups
25 min + 3x 1:10 min byo-yomi , i was white and won by resignation.W10: Maybe not good, better @ M16W34: strange situation now, i decided to focus on the the center… W42: Tenuki maybe not best, black can force white into bad shape at the top nowB63: Several weak groups now… complicated situation. B73: […]
The WBaduk Challenge – Part. 2
Here 2 new Wbaduk games … it is hard to feel how much weaknesses i still have, while i´m trying hard to study and learn more about the game … i see that i still make much beginner-mistakes. But it motivates me to even study more and harder… 😉 The first game has some variations […]
The WBaduk Challenge
As i mentioned before i have some trouble at the „WBaduk go server“ with getting out of the double digit kyu area. Actually i`m 16 kyu there, while i`m 6 Kyu at Kgs. Maybe you think i`m a sandbagger … but i`m not … i started with my KGS rank there and fall all the way […]
Best before poka
Although in this game i made a terrible endgame mistake, i`m not regretting it completely … it was a long and very nice game. It would have been not hard to see the shortage of liberties after W250 … but sometimes in the endgame, especially if i`m leading, i totally stop thinking and play like […]
Regrettable Game
This game was played with 25 min + 5 x 30 seconds … I played poorly… B9 is very unusual … the next time i meet a much stronger player i will ask what he (or her) would play with w10. W12 was maybe a bit naive. I think W24 is a mistake, better play […]
2 Long Games and Some Words About Poka
Sometimes one should stop playing one fast game after the other … again and again… i think you can only feel the real beauty of the game if you think hard and long … if you do not make poka (blunder) and if you try hard to find the best move in each situation. „Smartbot“ a […]
Some Funny Fast Games
Here are some fast games … i play them to learn, to have fun, and to make mistakes … not taking them too serious … All games here were played with: 5min 2×40 seconds Byo-Yomi In this game i was happy to kill whites group at the lower left in Yose (endgame) … but that was […]
More „Serious“ Games
Ok,i think i will not handle it to write reviews about every „serious“ game i play… but i will continue to post them all here and i will write reviews about some of them. Here are 3 serious games i played recently, in the first game record some comments and variations are included. (I was white) […]
Tsumego
You to live: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Found here: http://zenith20.blogspot.com/ “You should look at the board and play wherever you want to. This is the way to get stronger.” Takemiya Masaki
Game Review No. 5 + 6
Here are two games i played recently … i tried to make the first game a „serious“ one but i was very unconcentrated and made quite obvious mistakes … of course i do a lot of mistakes even if i`m fully concentrated … but some kind of mistakes can be called „blunders“ others can`t. In […]
Game Review No. 3 + 4
I`m really doing what i decided recently … i play a lot of fast games without regretting bad moves … just for fun … and long games… but if i play a long game, i`m most of the time quite concentrated… and i`m posting every long game here with some comments about it. I really […]
Game Review No. 2
I just played this game about 1 hour ago … some comments are included in the file.I think i made two essential mistakes: 1. Capturing much too slow, and unnecessary with Black89, B91, and B93 – this was ridiculous.2. Black 157 is a good example for my problem,which is to – sometimes – refuse thinking in essential […]
Modus Operandi
After playing – again – too many Games, in which i made too many obvious mistakes i decided to bring some structure in my (online-) playing habits. To improve my Go, i will, from now on, only play two kinds of games, and i will decide which kind of game i`m going to play before […]
Don`t Think – Just Use The Force | On Seriousness
(Why am i writing in English? I love to write in english because it is a nice feeling that by using english one can connect with Go players all over the world … but i`m not a native speaker and my abilities to write in english are not very good … maybe you enjoy my […]