Up Heap

Go is starting to grow on me, there's a bit of a mystical element to it and I'm always fascinated by the skilled players being able to live in the smallest spaces and kill me everywhere. The community is full of interesting people too! I think by improving a little I'll be able to appreciate the game better. I prefer studying from books since I can progress at my own pace. With that in mind, I plan to study the following: Reading Elementary Go Series: Tesuji  (2) Get Strong at Tesuji  (6) 1001 Life and Death Problems Opening Opening theory made easy  (3) 501 Opening problems Endgame Get strong at Endgame  (8) Big picture Learn to play go Volumes 1 through 5  (1) Lessons in the Fundamentals of Go  (4) Fundamental Principles of Go  (5) Attack and Defense  (7) Tentatively I plan to study one book at a time (1 hour a day) in the order they are labeled while working through the 1001 Life and Death problems (10 problems a day). I also noticed that I have picke

I've postponed my plans of trying Competitive programming for almost half a year now. It sounds like a fun activity and several people say it is very easy to start if you have a strong mathematical background so I'm looking forward to it. I will study the book Competitive Programming 3 for two hours a day or participate in the codeforces round if there is one that day. My handle is UpHeap and I haven't done any contests yet. My ranking is probably in the interval 1500-1600 from practice contests and I aspire to reach Candidate Master (i.e 1900) in three months.

I will use this blog to record my study plans and progress in several activities to see how far I can go and hopefully to learn how to use my time a little bit better during the next three months. As of right now I'll just be focusing on go and competitive programming. I'll try to add at least one more interesting activity before next week.