Life In 19x19

The raw .jar file for Linux and the Android app don't seem to have been updated, either.

Oh. I should have known I was missing something obvious.

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Re alternative for c12, here is the gist of my plan (p14 was typo for h14):

However, the fly in the ointment is the m18 weakness which means white doesn't need to take gote at j15. Black 9 only threatens to cut 4 now unimportant stones so white has defend the k16 push-and-cut in sente and can go ...

jann wrote:Instead of a 4th level: the ice cube
I wasn't into these things...

I solved it

Why would it be abnormal for people to wear glasses at the WAGC?

Move 7: Q5 is probably best, but if you can keep sente and come back to it, a tenuki may be fine.

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So I've continued trying to play more aggressively, albeit it the slight worry in my mind of what I'll do when I get to the level of opponents who know how to handle such aggression. Recently I came up against such an opponent, as it seemed that nothing I tried worked, although I didn't realize it ...

After further thought:

and my follow-up was that bad?

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I'll go over everything else later in the day when I get back from work, but regarding dfan's suggestion for to attach on the fourth line, it's not something I would have considered. I've played a couple of recent games trying the third-line attachment, and wasn't so sure how good the results were.

So I've still been trying to play more aggressively, and the good news it that it's led to a string of victories against KGS 6k players that finally got me bumped back up to 5k for the first time in a good two years. (Whenever I put up a challenge, I was only getting responses from players equal to ...

Your problems begin with 14 and multiply every time that you refuse to finish local situations and turn elsewhere.

I can't speak for the OP, but the flip side of this is that I see a lot of comments from strong players criticizing us kyu players for playing unnecessary extra moves in a local ...

I've always had a preference for longer time limits, and one of the interesting things I find is that I am usually the only one using the extra time. My opponents often play a 30 min 5x0:30 byomi game like it was a 5 min main time game.

You're not the only one. In my case, the games are usually ...

Bill: You suggested peeping on . To me, that looks like the sort of move where, if I played it, I would get criticized for playing aji keshi. Indeed, I thought of that in your comment on move 103 up in the top left for strengthening White needlessly.

Is there any good way to figure out which such ...

Fast-forward to 67 to see how Leela saved the group on the left for White:

(;GM[1]FF[4]CA[UTF-8]AP[CGoban:3]ST[2]
RU[Japanese]SZ[19]KM[6.50]TM[1500]OT[5x30 byo-yomi]
PW[kmaster]PB[Fedya]WR[6k]BR[6k]DT[2019-01-12]PC[The KGS Go Server at m]RE[W+Resign]
;B[pd]BL[1496.644]C[kmaster [6k\]: hi
Fedya ...