Post by Oregonian HaruspexI was wondering if anybody had
any tips to make the game more enjoyable for her?
Joy to play go can be rather independent of playing strength and
mostly is very subjective. The following presumes that she has a good
degree of subjective joy.
Winning can be more fun than losing, or at least winning ca. 50% of
the games can be more fun than winning less than 20%. Since currently
you are stronger, the winning-related fun aspect means that currently
she should improve faster than you. You decide whether you want to
improve fast quickly regardless of her possibly relatively slower
improvement.
In order to make her improve while having fun, she must have the
desire to learn, consider learning fun or consider the result of
learning (hopefully greater playing strength) fun.
Alternative: she visits clubs or servers and plays part of her games
against equally strong (eh, weak) opponents.
Post by Oregonian HaruspexI would especially
like to know the theory and practice of the teaching game, and how this
can help a person advance their skill level.
Teaching (and in particular teaching games) is one way to improve.
Other ways are books or playing against different opponents and
learning from one's mistakes while doing so. If you want to know about
suitable books, ask.
Teaching games can be a) even games with comments afterwards (not
during the game if you play her because you would be playing her game
and that is the least fun; teaching game with comments during the game
can make sense when a much stronger formal teacher teaches a pupil in
special, paid lessons and the pupil expects to learn much rather than
having fun during the lessons), b) handicap games with compensation
points, c) handicap games with handicap stones. (b) and (c) can also
have comments / discussion afterwards.
In order to teach well, you must know well what you are teaching. If
you don't, then acquire knowledge from books etc. If you both learn
from the same books, there is a chance that she overcomes the strength
difference. There is, however, no guarantee. If your learning
capabilty is better than hers, she can hardly keep up with your
improvement speed.
Just being married does not necessarily give two players equal
abilities for a particular activity. If your go learning skill should
be better, how about balancing it by letting her teach you something
else at which she is better?
Post by Oregonian HaruspexI am much stronger than her.
Nevertheless, it could happen that she becomes much stronger than you
(if she wants to).