Message of the Day

25. March 2023

User of the Day

 

Hero Powers

	Sprint (Level 20) Double XP for 2 minutes on all solved problems.
	Intuition (Level 30) Shows the first correct move.
	Rejuvenation (Level 40) Restores health, Intuition and locks.
	Potion (Level 50 or Premium) If you misplay and have no hearts left, you have a small chance to restore your health.
	Refinement (Level 100 or Premium) Gives you a chance to solve a golden tsumego.

Problem Colors

	Not visited You haven't seen this problem.
	Visited You have seen this problem, but not solved.
	Solved You solved this problem.
	Locked This problem is locked for today. Problems get locked when a player misplays and has no more hearts left.
	Half XP This problem gives half XP. It becomes available one week after the first solution.
	Golden This is a golden tsumego. It gives eight times more XP than usual. If you fail, it disappears.

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Contributors

Tsumego Hero is only in constant good shape, because there were users who helped creating the files for the problems. If you want to do some tsumego training and at the same time help the website by creating files, please message me. Help is much appreciated.

All contributors are listed here: Authors

Admins

We are looking for more admins who can confidently answer comments in the discuss area. Ideally, there is a small group of active or semi-active admins that is interested in discussion, uploading problems or creating new collections. Let me know if you would like to be on the productive side of Tsumego Hero. (me@joschkazimdars.com)

Guide To Become Strong

 by Benjamin Teuber 6 Dan

Many times I hear questions and requests like "How can I become strong?" or "My Go lacks this or that. Please teach me how to be better at it!". In general, I think many people overestimate the role of a Go-Teacher. Of course, it's very important to play and analyze with stronger players too, but still the teacher is not everything. Most of the learning consists of exploring Go for yourself, and not by having every single move explained. Actually, most part of my study in Japan did not consist of being taught by pros, but of studying by myself. One big point of being next to professionals was that they explained how to do this. For you, these lines mean that you don't have to go to Japan or find a 6-Dan teacher to become incredibly strong!!! Instead, if you are ambitious, you just have to know what to do by yourself. This is why I decided to write this small tutorial.

How to become strong (in order of importance)

1.	Play, play, play - the stronger your opponent the better for you
2.	Do Tsumego in the right way continuously. Maybe this seems to be boring for you at first, but you'll see how much fun it is once you start. It's very important how to do so!
3.	Analyze your games with other players (as above, the stronger the better) - best would be to found a private study group (ten eyes will find more than two or four...)
4.	Do Tsumego
5.	If you like, repeat and learn some pro games
6.	More Tsumego
7.	If you have some interesting book about fuseki, joseki, shape, endgame or whatever, read it if you enjoy - but don't spend too much time with it
8.	If you still have time left, how about a few tsumego-problems?

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