It has been a few weeks since my last post and July just has begun. In the last month I had to say goodbye to a lot of friends. It was fun being with you all. Not only students of KBC have left Korea but also a lot of my friends in Seoul studying in other schools. Let us meet again someday!
Today Kim-sabomnim announced that we will be going to Seoul this weekend, the women will play in a woman's tournament while we guys are commissioned to play teaching games there. The new thing is it will be the first time being paid for teaching here in Korea.
If you are in Korea come by and visit us at the "Hi Seoul"- Festival on Sunday, if not come by anyways.
The week after that we will have visitors at KBC. About 50 young Korean professionals will spend one week of vacation here at our school. I think it will be fun to have 12 times more professionals here than amateur players.
I am excited!
- adorable plum
Wednesday, July 1, 2009
Thursday, June 4, 2009
The next 3 months in KBC
I just on tuesday returned to KBC from a youth tournament in China but these days I am very busy as we are only 6 students currently the focus of our teachers on us is quite sharp, so to get the work done I go to school earlier and leave school later.
Where is my sleep?! >.>
Where is my sleep?! >.>
Friday, May 15, 2009
Training diary
30-04-09 Lost my league game today due to some grave mistakes and in the end i could not recover from them. The next exam we have is on Monday on the Avalanche joseki in a whole. It is just 120 pages to learn and memorize aside from our daily tasks and homework. Gotta hang in there!
12-05-09 I lost to Scott today, an very embarassing loss to. I did not feel well after the game. The good news is that I passed all tests, even those which I had to retake yesterday. Need to train more. Back with Kim Sung-Ryong-sabomnim I learned some important things about my Baduk. My weaknesses are shape and reading ability and there are two ways to fix my problems. Either study and improve my shapes, which is a very hard thing to do, or improve my reading ability and keep the attitude of killing stuff by superior reading.
As a side-note: Kim-sabomnim back when he was fourteen had an intensive professional game training session. He replayed 200 professional games a day up to move 50 to study the opening. Advise was to do it with at least 10000 professional games.
14-05-09 Today not much training happened. Most of us were gone to the beach so I only played one league game and after that had some excercises on Cyberoro. Sometimes when playing there I just cannot understand how unreasonable some players can play there. I just cannot.
15-05-09 This morning I played Kim Sung-Ryong-sabomnim at three handicap stones. Sadly I lost badly due to some mistakes I better should have seen but I was rather light-minded today. Other than that I was out of KBC for most of the day as I had to take some pictures for my China-visa later this month. I got free pizza and icecream!
12-05-09 I lost to Scott today, an very embarassing loss to. I did not feel well after the game. The good news is that I passed all tests, even those which I had to retake yesterday. Need to train more. Back with Kim Sung-Ryong-sabomnim I learned some important things about my Baduk. My weaknesses are shape and reading ability and there are two ways to fix my problems. Either study and improve my shapes, which is a very hard thing to do, or improve my reading ability and keep the attitude of killing stuff by superior reading.
As a side-note: Kim-sabomnim back when he was fourteen had an intensive professional game training session. He replayed 200 professional games a day up to move 50 to study the opening. Advise was to do it with at least 10000 professional games.
14-05-09 Today not much training happened. Most of us were gone to the beach so I only played one league game and after that had some excercises on Cyberoro. Sometimes when playing there I just cannot understand how unreasonable some players can play there. I just cannot.
15-05-09 This morning I played Kim Sung-Ryong-sabomnim at three handicap stones. Sadly I lost badly due to some mistakes I better should have seen but I was rather light-minded today. Other than that I was out of KBC for most of the day as I had to take some pictures for my China-visa later this month. I got free pizza and icecream!
Wednesday, April 29, 2009
Training diary
21-04-09 A new Mongolian 3dan is now studying with us. I played with her right after breakfast to see how strong she really was. It turned out to be quite a lot difference between us, I would say maybe two stones now. After that I mainly solved Tsumego and played an league A game which I won. At 15:00 o'clock Kim-sabomnim (the 9p) played a teaching game with me. I won by three points at three handicap stones and ten points reverse komi. It is amazing that my opponent won or lost every game he played with us in the last two days by exactly three points. Way to go for me!
25-04-09 Today's event was a team-match between our school and some older Baduk-players Kingsfield invited to the school. I played two matches. One against and CyberOro 4dan which I won and another match against a CyberOro 5dan which I lost.
29-04-09 Yesterday my scholarship for the next three months has been confirmed. It is such a relief to be able to stay here for at least another three months. There are quite a few things to organize, especially having my parents to agree with my longer stay, but I think that it should be possible. I have been growing stronger and I want to reach the very top now.
25-04-09 Today's event was a team-match between our school and some older Baduk-players Kingsfield invited to the school. I played two matches. One against and CyberOro 4dan which I won and another match against a CyberOro 5dan which I lost.
29-04-09 Yesterday my scholarship for the next three months has been confirmed. It is such a relief to be able to stay here for at least another three months. There are quite a few things to organize, especially having my parents to agree with my longer stay, but I think that it should be possible. I have been growing stronger and I want to reach the very top now.
Tuesday, April 21, 2009
Training diary
20-04-09 Today was a rather quiet day, no test or heavy duty tsumego solving. In the morning I played some blitz games with Pavol and did tsumego until lunch, after that some more tsumego and in the end a league game with Klara which I won. Kim Sung Ryong-sabomnim came back to ou school again and played several teaching games. I did not get a game today so I hope I will get one tomorrow. In the evening I played my Cyberoro games very slowly progressing up to 5dan. I should go a little faster I think but I keep making quite some serious errors.
21-04-09 A new Mongolian 3dan is now studying with us. I played with her right after breakfast to see how strong she really was. It turned out to be quite a lot difference between us, I would say maybe two stones now. After that I mainly solved Tsumego and played an league A game which I won. At 15:00 o'clock Kim-sabomnim (the 9p) played a teaching game with me. I won by three points at three handicap stones and ten points reverse komi. It is amazing that my opponent won or lost every game he played with us in the last two days by exactly three points. Way to go for me!
- adorable plum
21-04-09 A new Mongolian 3dan is now studying with us. I played with her right after breakfast to see how strong she really was. It turned out to be quite a lot difference between us, I would say maybe two stones now. After that I mainly solved Tsumego and played an league A game which I won. At 15:00 o'clock Kim-sabomnim (the 9p) played a teaching game with me. I won by three points at three handicap stones and ten points reverse komi. It is amazing that my opponent won or lost every game he played with us in the last two days by exactly three points. Way to go for me!
- adorable plum
Saturday, April 18, 2009
Training diary plus photos
18.04.09 There was an unexpected turn of things today as we returned to KBC already Saturday evening but as always the trip to Seoul has been totally inspiring for my Baduk. Despite watching the LG Cup premiliaries live I played 4 games with non-KBC players. I won against Tatu a Finnish 1-2dan at the IBA playing white in a no-komi game and against Pascal from Cannada, a 3dan, in an even game at the IBA where we stayed from Thursday until Friday. On Friday we were visiting a Baduk-English class where actually only high-dan ex-insei attend usually so the median of level there is Korean 7dan or TYGEM 9dan. I got to play an ex-insei at 4 handicap stones and in the end I won by 5 points! This means my current score is: Me 2 - Korean 7dan 0!!! After the game my opponent commented on my play estimating my current level to Korean 4dan. Yay!
On Saturday we visited a Baduk school which is run by a friend of Kim-sabomnim where we played a competition between both schools. Thirteen players vs thirteen players. Sounds like a fair match... but the crux is that every student there, even the elementary school kids are at least Cyberoro 7dan... Needless to say we lost all games but 1 which Gabriel won. He is CyberOro 7dan to. Apparrantly I lost my game to and that by 9,5 points in the end. I could not recover from a blunt mistake giving my opponent a 20 point lead right in the beginning. In the end Kim-sabomnim had to pay the price of our defeat and had to treat all the kids to icecream. We of course asked for a rematch in a couple of weeks!
Here are some more photos I made up to now:
http://picasaweb.google.com/s.rieche/SecondBatch?authkey=Gv1sRgCKGQrsb7voTaew
On Saturday we visited a Baduk school which is run by a friend of Kim-sabomnim where we played a competition between both schools. Thirteen players vs thirteen players. Sounds like a fair match... but the crux is that every student there, even the elementary school kids are at least Cyberoro 7dan... Needless to say we lost all games but 1 which Gabriel won. He is CyberOro 7dan to. Apparrantly I lost my game to and that by 9,5 points in the end. I could not recover from a blunt mistake giving my opponent a 20 point lead right in the beginning. In the end Kim-sabomnim had to pay the price of our defeat and had to treat all the kids to icecream. We of course asked for a rematch in a couple of weeks!
Here are some more photos I made up to now:
http://picasaweb.google.com/s.rieche/SecondBatch?authkey=Gv1sRgCKGQrsb7voTaew
Monday, April 13, 2009
Training diary
13.04.09 Monday has passed. I barely made it for the homework, my head was spinning after the last page but I made it! The test today went well to I think even thought I messed up one variation so I will not get full points it seems. I played two league games today.... both I had easily won but then two oversights let me lose these games. How can I lose such games I keep asking myself.... really annoying.... My CyberOro games are going better these days I have won 16 out of the last 17 games and only a few more wins and I will level-up once more.
Today Kim-sabomnim told us we are leaving for Seoul on Thursday and stay until Sunday. Yay!
- adorable plum
Today Kim-sabomnim told us we are leaving for Seoul on Thursday and stay until Sunday. Yay!
- adorable plum
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