Finally have a chance to sit down now at home after spending the day at the Seattle Go Center with Guo Juan. I will publish up the game record for a game I had with Derek, he was another beginner who showed up for today only. Hopefully I will get a chance to review the game with her tomorrow, as well as a nine stone handicap game I played against Leanne, a retired school teacher who used to run Go clubs at nearby schools. She gave me an excellent review, as well as a comment that if I were to fix a particular error of mine, I could gain several kyu almost immediately. I hope that I can assemble at least one record of the game, after a certain point of us both recording to paper, she just started doing the recording for both of us because I was having difficulty and had to keep asking for the move number. I was very grateful for her patience, and her willingness to review the game with me and point out some of the issues. The same kinds of mistakes I’ve seen myself make before, in tone. However, there was some awesome play that was a direct result of the lecture/problems from last night and notes this morning. Don’t push from behind; making the elephant eye is bad shape.

It will take time to put up more, but I need to spend some time unwinding with my non-go playing significant other (NGSO) and getting my rest for tomorrow morning.

One comment from both Leanne and Guo was that with some diligent study that I could definitely up my skill level to the Single Digit Kyu range and shorten the gap between myself and some of the other SGC players within as little as a month. I’m not sure that I’m prepared to do the amount of time they are thinking about within a single month, but I am most certainly encouraged to get serious and get up that ladder!

More later, good night.