This whole weekend was pretty great :) Yesterday we got together to play - there were only a few of us who showed up, but there were some new faces :) We met at the library, and a player named Frank, rank 2dan, schooled me in more ways than one! He found out about the club by seeing the poster around town, emailed me, and finally we played a game. I got crushed even taking a 5 stone handicap - I think I need 8 or 9 against him - and we reviewed it thoroughly afterwards (I was amazed at his ability to recreate the board positions, move for move) and I think in that single game/review I clued into a big part of what I've been missing all this time. I'm trying to do too much at once! I routinely make the mistake of switching back and forth between attempts to capture a corner and get dominating influence in the center at the same time...I'm just greedy, I guess...
I've played Go for years but I'm still not a very good player - I've never really had the opportunity to be shown what to do quite like that :) It was awesome - Thank you, Frank!
Afterwards I went over to my friend Steve's place, we played several games - and both of us seemed to improve somewhat after being shown all of that stuff earlier :) And then...I finally showed him Hikaru no Go, something I had been meaning to do forever - and then proceeded to play even more Go... ;) I need to play more.
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