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发帖数: 19398 | 1 The worst Go player（转载）
I live with a guy who is just the worst Go player. He's terrible! As much as
I try and teach him, he seems to keep making the same dumb mistakes. I got
so annoyed that I made a list of his faults:
He misses obvious ataris and gets his groups killed
He misses obvious threats such as double ataris and snapbacks
He continually misreads simple life and death situations
His groups get killed when they should live because he missed a vital
point
He fails to kill his opponents' groups because he lets them get a vital
point
He cannot judge territory and frequently lets his opponent get more
territory
He has no knowledge of basic joseki and usually ends up at a
disadvantage
He plays gote moves and lets his opponent take sente
He fails to block monkey jumps, or fails to play them when available
He doesn't see the significance of ladder breakers
He doesn't count and cannot judge the relative size of territories
When he does count, he miscounts by several points
He makes small moves in yose and gives away sente
He has no understanding of 9x9 games and often gets beaten by beginners
He cannot manage his time and is always behind on the clock
His reading is poor and gets worse under time pressure, leading to
stupid mistakes
He never thinks beyond the first move that comes to mind
He plays reactively, letting his opponent dictate the tempo
He is too impatient to study tsumego properly and just makes wild
guesses
He does not review his own lost games properly, preferring to forget
them
He loses heart when behind and fails to take risks or show fight
He becomes complacent when ahead and stops trying
He is over-concerned with rank and plays safe instead of experimenting
When his rank goes up, he credits it to pure skill and strength
When his rank goes down, he says he was "having an off day" and berates
the flawed ranking system
He is contemptuous of anyone weaker than himself and jealous of anyone
stronger
He continually believes himself to be stronger than he actually is
I gave my friend this list and told him he will never be a good Go player
unless he fixes all of these problems. He read it carefully, looking a
little downcast. Then he went away.
After a while he came back with a book - The Wisdom of No Escape by Pema Ch?
dr?n - and read me this passage:
In one of the Buddha's discourses, he talks about the four kinds of
horses: the excellent horse, the good horse, the poor horse, and the really
bad horse. The excellent horse, according to the sutra, moves before the
whip even touches its back; just the shadow of the whip or the slightest
sound from the driver is enough to make the horse move. The good horse runs
at the lightest touch of the whip on its back. The poor horse doesn't go
until it feels pain, and the very bad horse doesn't budge until the pain
penetrates to the marrow of its bones.
When Shunryu Suzuki tells the story in his book Zen Mind, Beginner's
Mind, he says that when people hear this sutra, they always want to be the
best horse, but actually, when we sit, it doesn't matter whether we're the
best horse or the worst horse. He goes on to say that in fact, the really
terrible horse is the best practitioner. […]
Once I had an opportunity to talk with Ch?gyam Trungpa, Rinpoche, about
the fact that I was not able to do my practice properly. I had just started
the vajrayana practices and I was supposed to be visualizing. I couldn't
visualize anything. I tried and tried but there was just nothing at all; I
felt like a fraud doing the practice because it didn't feel natural to me. I
was quite miserable because everybody else seems to be having all kinds of
visualizations and doing very well. he said, "I'm always suspicious of the
ones who say everything's going well. If you think that things are going
well, then it's usually some kind of arrogance. If it's too easy for you,
you just relax. You don't make a real effort, and therefore you never find
out what it is to be fully human." So he encouraged me saying that as long
as you have these kinds of doubts, your practice will be good. When you
begin to think that everything is just perfect and feel complacent and
superior to the others, watch out!
These words made a big impression on me, and after that I stopped being
quite so hard on my friend (who is, of course, myself). | S*****y
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