Hello everyone, I am Young Gil, a professional baduk player, and I would like to suggest a few more effective ways of strengthening your baduk skill. Every baduk player, including even professional players, has probably been curious about the best way to improve. Although no one has figured out the best method so far, some methods are certainly more efficient than others. The following are my recommendations for baduk players who really want to improve.

If you want to become stronger, you must first play a lot of games. I am sure you can learn many things by playing which you cannot learn by books. Afterwards, you should try to review the games with your opponent or someone who is stronger than you. Nowadays, people enjoy playing baduk online, so it is often not easy to review games. However, if you have an opportunity to play a game face to face, you should ask your opponent to review. Take care to ask only after losing; otherwise your opponent may get mad at you for asking to review a won game. While reviewing, you will notice which of your plays were beautiful moves or mistakes, and it is something like receiving corrections after examination. Pro players like to review. They really like it, even more than playing games! They review even after playing a quick game to see who buys ice cream for the other. They even review after playing Star Craft. Isn't it amazing? As far as I know, almost all pro players believe that they learn most from reviews, and it is a very effective way to improve.

Another important learning tool is Life & Death problems. Solving L&D problems is often neither exciting nor interesting, but you should not avoid studying it because it is the basic and fundamental element of baduk. I believe it is one of the best ways to raise your reading ability. Do you know why Lee Sedol is the No.1 player in the world right now? It is because of his deep and accurate reading. That is the main reason, and Lee Changho and Wu Qing Wien also possess this reading ability. When playing a game, you will inevitably face L&D situations, and if you know L&D precisely, you may find a position where you can play elsewhere without reinforcing a group to make life. Otherwise you may spend an unnecessary move defending the group, and it is such a big difference.

Reading books is also important. If you are curious about how to choose proper books, I would like to talk about this next time if enough people are interested.\


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