Haha. I wasn't, lol. Still, I think my last game deserves some critique...how could I have gotten the extra 4 points needed to win outright?Bill Spight wrote:Playing with yourself is naughty.
Critique of my game
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Re: Critique of my game
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What is very helpful to you right now, at your level, is direct experience.TSLexi wrote:Still, I think my last game deserves some critique...how could I have gotten the extra 4 points needed to win outright?
Try to finish as many games as you can afford to,
as quickly as possible. 100 is a good number.
Play, play, play.
You need to experience hundreds and thousands of different shapes and
situations. After this initial experience, then reviews are more efficient
and useful.
See post 8.
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Re: Critique of my game
Hi TSLexi,
It's really common to take corners first (I mean all the corners... with the first 4 moves of the game... black and white get two corners each)
The reason is that when you play in a corner, it's like having two wall of
the house allready built for you, while plying on a border has only one,
and playing in the center as nothing "pre-built"
In go, do you know what "two eyes" means ? A shape that has two eyes is said to be
living, because your opponent would need to play two move in a row to kill which is not
possible.
In the corner, 6 stones are needed to do the smallest living shape.
In the border you need 8 stones.
In the center you will need 10 stones.
So for a same purpose (making a living shape) we may say that the corners is the place where
you will be the more efficient (ie where you need the less stone to achive your goal)
[edit] this is not an example of how a game should look like, this is just a diagramm with all the smallest living shapes...[/edit]
It's really common to take corners first (I mean all the corners... with the first 4 moves of the game... black and white get two corners each)
The reason is that when you play in a corner, it's like having two wall of
the house allready built for you, while plying on a border has only one,
and playing in the center as nothing "pre-built"
In go, do you know what "two eyes" means ? A shape that has two eyes is said to be
living, because your opponent would need to play two move in a row to kill which is not
possible.
In the corner, 6 stones are needed to do the smallest living shape.
In the border you need 8 stones.
In the center you will need 10 stones.
So for a same purpose (making a living shape) we may say that the corners is the place where
you will be the more efficient (ie where you need the less stone to achive your goal)
Converting the book Shape UP! by Charles Matthews/Seong-June Kim
to the gobook format. last updated april 2015 - Index of shapes, p.211 / 216
to the gobook format. last updated april 2015 - Index of shapes, p.211 / 216
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Re: Critique of my game
How many liberties does yourTSLexi wrote:I did this time around.Uberdude wrote:Stop drawing pretty pictures and pay attention to how many liberties your stones have.
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3Uberdude wrote:How many liberties does yourTSLexi wrote:I did this time around.Uberdude wrote:Stop drawing pretty pictures and pay attention to how many liberties your stones have.
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Re: Critique of my game
Hi, if you can afford it, get some introductionary Go books, watch some games by stronger players - 15k?. Also, stop playing all those small diagonal moves - they're really bad. Trying to make territory with all those little diagonal moves is horribly inefficient. As for your last game, move 3, play corners first. "Shin fuseki" aside it's better to go for the corners first. Move 9, I'd have played in the corner, white 10 at the 3-3 point is a legitimate invasion of a stone on the 4-4 point, there's a fairly easy joseki sequence that you should learn and which doesn't start with black 11.
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Re: Critique of my game
Correct. How about now?TSLexi wrote:3Uberdude wrote: How many liberties does your
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1.Uberdude wrote:Correct. How about now?TSLexi wrote:3Uberdude wrote: How many liberties does your
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Re: Critique of my game
Correct. So how do you think you should have played differently in these first few moves?