Reviewed particularly at each moves you commented on.

I think you think way too much about the unimportant stuff, and you don't read deeply enough when it matters

Hope this helps!

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I think observing someone else's review helps becoming more modest in doing future reviews myself.

At 35 you (hl782) state he (Fedya) should ignore. I disagree: ignoring would turn the group into floating eyeless prey, embraced by an enormous Black sphere of influence.

The move that would punish the tenuki is not your 1 space jump & peep: it's the keima & peep. That submarine move creates eyeshape while destroying it and it is a vital point in a global sense.

If White connects strongly, the keima remains unharmed. If White makes a hanging connection, then Black can push up to peep again and reinforce his stone.

This is a very important technique in attack & defence.

To double check we're on the same page:
is this the game v. uwek(7k) and was there a typo, instead of ?

Quite so!

Thanks for pointing that out.

Another idea for you to consider in your quest to get stronger is to try to give reviews to weaker players once in a while. In the process of explaining your thoughts on how to play go better, you actually help yourself think through a go game from an objective point of view. With the effort put in to explain how to play go better, your own understanding of go will be tested and tempered.

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Hm perhaps you know better than me Knotwilg but, Even with the submarine keima-peep white can just connect, and i dont see many followups for black. R18 is possibly sente for white after the connection.

Even if white's group is not fully settled and he has to run out towards the center, I dont see a way how white won't settle smoothly - as black's stones on the right are still not fully settled yet. Moreover, if white's group runs out.. he's potentially just running into Black's sphere of influence. I don't see a reason why black would like to do that. The other points just seem so much bigger.

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The issue is that black can push the white group to the bottom, extending black's moyo while settling his right side group in more-or-less sente, and white has gained no profit. After the chase, it becomes easier to connect up B weak stones at D6, and makes invasions on the bottom easier, since Black will have a lot of strength in the center.

"Live first, then attack." - Hajin Lee

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hdl782 I believe I'm right here but I'm open for debate. Here's a positional judgment and some variations from 32 to 36

I was a member of the GTL and enjoyed the opportunity to review weaker players' games, even though it was difficult at times.

One of the reasons I'd like to get stronger is so that I can feel comfortable reviewing any games posted here. I don't respond to other people's reviews in part because there don't seem to be too many games from players weaker than me, and in part because when there are, the stronger players seem to be able to go through a game once and spot the major weaknesses and mistakes right away. It takes me a lot longer since I'm not strong enough to notice a lot of the mistakes on first glance, and by the time I'd get done, a bunch of other (stronger) players are likely to have posted reviews already.

In the game, I felt like seemed a bit defensive, but I was really worried about Black playing something like Knotwilg suggested. That having been said, the other alternative I was looking at playing wasn't a tenuki, but Q12.

As for hl782's comments on , I do know that joseki for the Chinese fuseki, but with that extra black stone there, I was worried about getting sealed into a small life in the corner. Playing where I did gave me (I felt) the opportunity to run out into the center.

If I hadn't misclicked and played the hane at as I intended, I don't know if I would have considered the double hane, instead just extending to Q14.

Sure - that debate can be had between many - I think it's a viable position to tenuki. Some disagree! Really just comes down to preference - I like fighting and mutual destruction so it seems playable to me. If thats not your cup of tea- not a problem.

As for your second comment - I agree with you running out to the center since small life in the corner is bad.
However the biggest thing to note is
1) how you failing to enclose that corner cost you approximately 25-30 points and
2) how you can even remotely consider the possibility of dying with that big group out into the center. Get rid of silly thoughts like that in your game and focus on what's more important.

Hm double hane is interesting. I'll have to read it out to see if it works.
Also please note that you would have lost this game due to the unreasonable invasion had black not essentially passed 3 times.


Just focus on those small points and you'll become 5kyu in no time.

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I should add that I think I misused a go term. When I talked about the double hane regarding my misclick on , I didn't mean responding with P14, but was talking about the hane on the other side of the Black group, at Q18. That move didn't enter my thinking when I was planning to play Q15.

If I thought it comes down to preference, I wouldn't make an intervention. I really think that moves which affect both your own group's strength and your opponents, in a situation like the one we're discussing, are game deciders. However, I can be wrong, which is why I wouldn't want to formulate my advice like this:

i fail to see why telling him not to worry about a living group and focus on other things in a bit of an assertive manner is problematic.

Fedya you're doing fine - you'll hit 5kyu soon dwbi too much and just keep playin

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It's a problem if you're wrong, and Knotwilg is right here. Move 34 is really important - if White doesn't play it, Black settles his stones in sente and the corner is not quite alive. That's not to mention that it's more than 10 points reverse sente.

Let me say that I agree with Knotwilg, as well. Fedya's secures his group and prevents Black from making a base with sente, and threatens the Black stones on the right side, as well. Pretty much double sente. (And Black did respond. )

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The debate over whether whether was necessary or not is also part of the reason I don't review weaker players' games much. I can see the stronger players here excoriating me for bad advice

I guess it was the tenuki at where things started to go wrong?

The general recommendation I hear is to review games 5 stones weaker than yours. (That advice changes once in the dan levels). Less than 5 stones, and it becomes more of a conversation than a teaching experience (such as "what if you played here instead?" vs "this is bad shape" and "strengthen here first").

A 6 kyu teaching an 11 kyu will typically give new thoughts and ideas to the 11k. I don't have time much anymore to review games online, but I do help review games for my brothers often (~12k and 15k). Am I giving the best advice? Probably not. But they don't need the best advice, they need "good enough" advice to help them strengthen their game and explore new ideas.

So don't fear teaching others. If you're wrong, and someone points it out, now what was once a teaching experience becomes a learning experience. It's a win-win. And it helps solidify your own fundamentals.

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So I downloaded the Tsumego Pro app and do the free daily problems among other things.

Today's two "hard" problems both flummoxed me:

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[go]$$B Black to kill
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The first one was particularly humorous in that I'm playing out a sequence, and realize halfway through, "Crap! This is leading to seki! I'm supposed to be killing the group!" Try again. The second time, I wound up with a ko, which isn't right since you're able to kill unconditionally.

(I should add at this point I really dislike problems where the solution is either ko-to-kill or ko-for-life. They seem like cheating to me.)

The second one at least looks reasonably like something you'd see in a real game, but I still couldn't figure out how to kill. No wonder.