Life In 19x19

Thank you, Dusk Eagle : I very much appreciate your review. I am aware of (some of) my weaknesses, and when I was playing humans regularly I learned to avoid a few of them, but these days I am very much out of practice and am having trouble even getting back to 17 kyu against MFoG (I'm winning more ...

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Proverbs aren't meant to be too deep, IMO; the main point is that you don't have time to make a bunch of separate groups live individually.(snip) Thank you. I was thinking of treating myself to a copy of Milton Bradley's New Go Proverbs Illustrated as a late Christmas present ...

First, to end speculation on the game Dusk Eagle posted, here are the first several moves of that game (I've removed the opponents name, although the entire game is publicly available):

It appears the sequence was played pretty early, and looks very good for white.

Don't be embarassed--it will ...

What Dusk Eagle posted was most likely not the beginning of the game, but only the part that happened in one corner. Ah, didn't think of that possibility. But presumably it must have been very early on, because the A1 corner was completely unpopulated at the start of the sequence.
And you don't ...

(snip)My point is, a large part of Go is keeping your own groups strong and attacking your opponent's groups when they get weak. If you noticed, both topazg and daniel_the_smith touched on the sentence below, and I will too. Without actually being able to see a game of yours, I would guess it's a ...

the other question is what exactly do you mean by "get all 4 corners"?
Oh, just to have a live group in each, so that A1, A19, T1 & T19 are all within my territory rather than my opponent's or neutral. In fact, looking back at my last game (which I won : MFoG resigned at 107,5 points down, with ...

OK, my thanks to all for those very quick replies. Just one point of clarification :

Certainly, 4 corners + the center isn't going to happen
When I spoke of trying to win all four corners and then using those as a base from which to contest the centre, I meant by that last phrase not "gain ...

Honest answer? Both Though, in truth, "Having lots of vulnerable groups" sounds more like the source of your problems. I'm very unhappy if I have 3 unsettled groups on the board at any one time.
OK, so am I being over-ambitious ? I do try to win all four corners in every game, and then use those ...

Although I have been playing Go on and off for over 30 years, and reached about 5 kyu when I was playing very regularly, I still regard myself as a beginner who just happens to know the rules and a little of the strategy. And just recently I have re-started playing Go against the computer : at first ...