This is a game I played just now on KGS. I’m white, and black is a 13kyu. Despite my rank being (12k?), since I figured KGS is still overestimating me as I haven’t played many games on there in awhile, I requested and was granted an even match. Am I seriously this good now? There were plenty of times over the course of this game that I thought “why are you playing there?” or “why use this joseki instead of -that- one in this situation?”, wracking my brain because I thought there had to be something I wasn’t seeing. The result is as you see it, I was winning by at least 50 points when he resigned, and honestly had it kept going I probably would have won by more by expanding my moyo attacking the left and top groups (another 30 points maybe).

Based on this game, and a few teaching games and such I’ve played in the past few days, I can only assume that I’m actually around 10k now. HOW?! I’ve been doing joseki and tsumego almost exclusively in the past week, and not really playing real games more than once a day, and my strength has jumped from 15k to 10k?! My goal of being a single digit kyu by summer was apparently underestimating myself a lot, maybe I should aim for 5kyu…

It doesn’t really feel real yet, or maybe I’m just kidding myself and this guy really sucked for a 13kyu.