It is just 11 days after I came back from China Beijing, and still I didn’t have enough of Go! Even though I get to play online on KGS (but streamyx is freaking SLOW lately and laggy that made it near impossible to play even a game at night).
End up studying my new Go books that I have bought from China, which was very cheap. Got myself ‘Gen WuQingYuan Dashi XueWeiQi’, Yose Dictionary, Korean Style Life & Death and Go Exam from 30kyu to 1dan. Phew! Tons of books to study, I think the amount I read will be alot higher than the average a Malaysian read per year!
How much I study & effort I put in on a daily basis? Well basically I study almost every night for about 30mins to 2 hours of tesuji, yose, life & death and joseki depending on my energy level on weekdays. On weekends, I can study for whole day sometimes on opening concepts (fuseki), midgame strategies and replying pro games. Also lately I been researching my own joseki, which is very fun to play in my games, it has high win rate at the moment but time will tell whether this new joseki is actually good or bad.
Also I came across International Baduk Academy’s (IBA) website and found out that they also offer scholarships to students that wish to study there. There are 4 types of scholarship, they are:-
a) High-level player scholarship
b) Working scholarship
c) IBA scholarship
d) Special scholarship
More details can be found here in IBA’s website. After reading that, it got me to consider planning to study there for at least a month to three months. This can happen in the future but currently just not able to do it with so many real life issues to attend to.
So many things to study yet so little time! I need more than 24 hours per day!
