Studying Fuseki
Now that I’m a little further in mastering the game, I can see where my weaknesses lie and what I should do or which books I should read to get more skilled. Right now I think that my greatest weakness lies in the opening, the 布石. So I went to the store and bought a few books about it. Reading these books makes me aware that yes – I needed it.
There are lots of areas that I need to master, but the fuseki was the most urgent. I think the next field of interest should be the endgame, but I’m not sure yet. Reading these books on the fuseki pushed me up quite a bit, and I haven’t even finished yet…
But even when studying these exotic games the books give me, I still feel that I’m picking up on the principles that lie behind them, even though I’m not always sure about what it is.
It is the experience of suddenly seeing yourself play a new type of move, because you saw the principle behind it explained somewhere, that makes you feel good. It doesn’t even matter if you lost or won the game as long as you can see you’ve learned something.
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