Life In 19x19

I'll join please.

I hadn't thought very hard about the joseki, but thank you for the comments.

Hello everyone - I've been improving quickly for the last few months, but I've been stuck at 8k long enough to justify asking for advice... So, if anyone can review a game of mine, I'd appreciate it. I played as white against a 9k and lost by a small margin.

Specifically, I'd like advice about the ...

I certainly consider it very likely that any alternative life forms would find a game with the following three rules, which, for me, describe go sufficiently accurately:
1. Adjacent pieces are considered one entity (chain).
2. If a chain has no empty adjacent intersections (places to put pieces ...

It's strange that some of the things you said aren't mentioned in Sensei's Library, in any case I think you helped me improve - thanks!

Thanks a lot for the help. For some reason, I completely overlooked the chance to kill that cutting stone in the top left, I guess I just don't see the vital points immediately. As for the strategic tips by sholvar, I've never even thought about the situations on such large scales. One corner ...

Hello everyone, I started playing Go recently and since I've played only against bots so far, I thought that it might help my progress if a human player gave me some advice. Many Faces of Go will usually be quick to punish my obvious tactical mistakes, but I'm probably unaware of many less-obvious ...