I finally broke through to KGS 3 kyu yesterday. One small tweak that I’ve made to my fast game training regimen is that I play weak bots as well with a handicap of one more stone than the rank gap. While I enjoy these fast games, I’m also starting to get a bit bored with playing HiraBot, DCNN, and AyaBot. I’ll likely start adding the occasional fast automatch game (with high handicap allowance) to mix things up. For slower even games I have AYD and Mostly Go, for faster even games Foxy and WBaduk. I’ve also been firing up GoQuest for some fast 9x9 which I find I quite enjoy now.

I’ve signed up for two New York area tournaments, one hosted by the New York Institute of Go and the other is the annual Stonybrook Sakura Matsuri Go Tournament. The former I’m entering as 6 kyu and the later as 5 kyu. Hopefully I can show better results over those 8 rounds and give my AGA rating (7 kyu) a boost before the US Go Congress.