joseki corner Epsiode 2 a star point Joseki

	simple josekis are scary =)
	Hi everyone, it is a new episode of the joseki corner :-) For today i choose a rather simple one which has a lot of middle game variations to know when beiing played. I hope oyu all have fun with it  and enjoy it your admin Yunyuki Kirigaya aka Kiriya

mentality

Why do I lose when the other one is weaker?

Hi everyone, first of all  I am going to tackle you today with the theme of how important mentality is while playing a sport like Baduk or Table tennis and so on. I got this interesting link about this theme from a friend, who plays go for years and got to 2-3dan. http://tabletennis.about.com/od/beginnersfaqs/a/why_you_lose.htm He also noticed firsthand how the pressure while playing is influencing his games against other dan players. I have to agree with that. Recently everything is going wrong around me and as I played my last Baduk tournament again as 1k i lost  every game. I cant say for sure that it was only because I was feeling down about everything that went wrong in the last months of my life, but it definitly is part of the reason why I lost so badly in the last tournament. But even minor things can set off an unbalance of your concentration therefore I can only point out right now that it happens from time to time. If it happened  and everything went wrong don´t try to break the situation forcefully. In most cases that way makes everything even worse. You have to regain your mood always step by step. that´s about all i can say about it here a second link which i got as well http://www.mentalgamecoaching.com/IMGCAArticles/Tennis/StopLosingToWeakerPlayers.html I hope all of you will have a good day, your admin yunyuki Kirigaya aka Kiriya

BMic & Yun Lessons

	Typical attacking mistakes
	Yun and me are discussing about attacking directions. Some positions will show typical mistakes while attacking.

Hoodiecrow (b) vs eiijirou (w)

Go Offline Reviews

Hi everyone, this time a game was send in to be reviewed. And especially this time since it´s not from my students but from a friend of mine, i was really happy to have the opportunity to review a game from others. I think i may overdid it but i still hope that you will like it. I got to much into it in one of the videos on the upper left side so a bit stuff i say is missing for better or worse :-) I hope you will find at the end the theme of playing more active moves but not careless moves, as a point to improve yourself.  (maybe even to the point where you can say : uhh shiny one that move =))))  ) with regards your admin Yunyuki Kirigaya aka Kiriya

Go story as book

First Kyu

Hi everyone, this time i wanted to show you all some material easily be found in the internet about the book First Kyu (it´s about the cover of the book and a bit about the author). I personally like to read books and especially about go. First Kyu is a really interesting Story. I read it myself and it has some interesting parts like chapters namend with go proverbs or some famous games like the blood vomiting game which makes it pretty usefull besides the good story it gives some good go material to work with. How far would you go to be first? "BEFORE WE BEGIN... Let me tell you a story. An old story, a really old story. Do you know how to play go? You do? First kyu, a player of the first rank? Really? Have you ever competed in a professional qualifying tournament? No? Then you are not, I repeat NOT first kyu! I know, I know. Nowadays all kinds of bad players call themselves first kyu. This story is, however, not about those fake first kyus. It's a story of the real first kyus. There is a guy who runs a smoke shop near Niagara Falls. His name is Shin. On rainy days he keeps staring at the falls and mumbles something like this: "I'm sure they must all be playing for bangneki stakes happily somewhere..." Can you even guess what he is talking about? If not, just hold on and listen to what I'm going to tell you. Only about a handful of people know this story. So listen up." Thus begins a compelling, insightful, and haunting tale of love, sacrifice, the search for excellence, and Go- the world's oldest game. About the Author Born in Seoul, Korea in 1950, Sung-Hwa Hong graduated from the famed Kyunggi High School, and after serving in the Korean army for three years, immigrated to Vancouver in 1974. He then, in 1981, graduated from the Faculty of Dentistry at the University of British Columbia.Winning the Canadian Go Championship twice, he participated in the World Amateur Go Championship in Japan as the Canadian representative in 1989 and 1995. Married with two children, he practiced family dentistry in Vancouver until his death in 2001. Shortly before he passed away, Dr. Hong made a few small changes to the text for the second printing. It is a link to a review about the book. ---> http://gobase.org/reading/preview/firstkyu/ Text

Mental technique

If you do to much and forget balance this is what happens but.... if you do it right then... that´s what´s going to happen:  you play more naturally (and win chance goes up)  how to fight pressure during games

I think all people now about the  first breath in, close your eyes and slowly breath out  technique for trying to relax during tests or go games, but just how many people are able to deal with their pressure this way ? In this case for me it doesn´t really help as i am as nervous as before and even start thinking more and more about it while trying to clear my thoughts. So i searched a year ago tor becoming better at tournaments on how to deal with pressure or nervosity during games. The technique i found is one they use often in Tennis games. As i said sometime ago Tennis is a sport which puts a big deal of mental pressure on the player, so this can be applied to go players as well i think. For me at least it worked and is one good technique to deal with pressure and there are for sure more (i will search for more  of course) The technique is rather simple: First close your eyes (and no it´s not the technique above^^) and then try to imagine a page. Now it becomes difficult, try to imagine all the pressure points in a summary on the page. And now the most important part you have to imagine it how it gets erased around 60-80 percent. It depends on each person which is the best balance, but a a bit of pressure can be good to stimulate the senses during a game, so not fully erasing it is important. If there is enough time during the game, do it many times around 5-6 times at least . I can only say it works in my case and for Tennis players it seems to work as well. I hope it can help last but not least a picture which says it as well and looks cool on top of it

journey to tournaments

Last weekend i was in hamburg at the tournament "Hamburger Mausefalle". My KGS-friends weren´t there. But maybe we are going to see each other in Hannover. The Logo of the nice tournament by vikki2.