Of Attacking, Killing, Tesujis and Courage to Live

Hei again :)

It has been a while since I posted the last time about GO. So here I go ;D
I ordered last week two new books: Kato's Attack and Kill by Kato Masao and Tesuji by James Davies.

Kato's book is a really good one. It contains 3 chapters, the first introduces some basic attacking things, the second contains problems and the third chapter shows some of Kato's games and he explains how he used the strategies from the first chapter in his pro games.
The Book is well written with good diagrams. I finished it after 3 days ( though I still have to go through some of the pro games).
If you like to know more about attacking groups and stuff you really should read this book.

Now I'm reading the Tesuji book. It's from the Elementary Go Series and it has 16 chapters, each introducing new Tesujis to the reader.
Up to now I've only read  3 or 4 chapters. That is not because it is too difficult, but because I'm just very lazy to read out sequences till the end :D
And that is why the book is good for me, teaching me to read till the very end^^
If you have reading problems and want to learn new Tesujis, here you go, the book is good for you.

 So far to my study. Next week is my next tournament in Recklinghausen. For the fact that I'm in a good mood at the moment in Go I'm really looking forward to it. Maybe I can get a positive result there? In my last tournament my result was a 3-3 as an 8k.
 On KGS my both accounts are climbing to the 4k, maybe I can reach it before the tournament? Would give me some sort of good feeling :>


Lately I've been watching some series on TV and in the Internet. I got into The Big Bang Theory, which is a American sitcom with 4 physicians and one blond "normal" girl. Hilarious, I can tell you :DDDD
On youtube xavicat managed to upload new Yawara ( a fashionable Judo girl) episodes. Nice anime about a girl doing judo though she doesn't want to. Not the best anime but I like the characters and cause I'm doing Judo by myself it certainly is interesting for me :)
Last but not least I'm watching Rurounin Kenshin , one of the best animes I've ever seen. It's about a samurai, who was known as the man-slayer while the revolution. Now he's a wanderer who promised to never kill anymore. I love it :)

 You can die at any time but living takes true courage.
- Kenshin -