Life In 19x19

Thanks for that post Bill! I felt like my play in the upper right was pretty desperate as I knew I was behind. Lately my I seem to be playing pretty poorly. I was fortunate he answered my push at T16. The ko won me the game but only because it looks like he made some huge errors. Thank you for ...

Yeah move 51 is kind of ridiculous . I meant to connect, but I got distracted by something else nearby and misclicked. I decided to just play it through since I figured it was my own fault.

Hello everyone!
Its been awhile since I asked for any reviews so I was hoping you guys would be willing to look over this game for me. Last time I asked for a review it was pointed out that I was playing just a little fast (as in less than 5 seconds a move ). Since you guys pointed that out, I've ...

Hey Tezza,

I'm in the same boat. I've lost my first one hundred games I'm quite sure as well . Right now I'm working on slowing down my game a good bit as well as trying to actually focus on reading ahead. I have a bad habit (probably from playing video games when I was younger) of reacting to ...

Well jts has a good point. I have been trying to work on those things as well, but I was wondering if studying joseki would be helpful towards learning some of those things. I've always heard avoid studying joseki and so I was wondering 1) when to study them and 2) should I study them at all if all ...

I figured that memorizing was the wrong way to study for the most part. Although has you pointed out even it probably has benefits. My question I guess is should I bother learning them now or are they something to learn later? And also I don't plan to just memorize them, I learned that memorization ...

Hello everyone! I had a question about learning joseki. From what I heard memorizing joseki does very little or almost nothing to help you improve or understand more about the game. However, is there a point where you should begin studying joseki? Or can you do just as well without learning any? I'm ...

I apologize for posting such a short game, it wasn't meant to be disrespectful to any of you guys or your time. Last week I got a job for the summer and my time has been taken up in training and new shifts. So when I get a chance to play, I have been playing fast to get more games (I still probably ...

Hello everyone!

After the last game you guys reviewed I have been trying to follow all the advice in my games, and I do think I have improved some already . I was wondering if you would be willing to give me any advice on this recent game I played. I tried to go through the game myself once ...

Thank you for all the advice. It seems for the most part I may not need to be really focusing on this skill quite yet. However, I better get the practice in as much as possible. Judging by my most recent attempts, counting is going to take me quite a while to get the hang of.

Boyce

Thanks Redundant! I'll go over that game and try to find some of those needless moves and begin doing a problems everyday. I have Tesuji by Davies and 1001 Life and Death problems so those should keep me busy for awhile I think.

Boyce

Those articles and your advice on broken shape were very helpful! I played another game earlier today trying to keep in mind to not let my positions become broken shape and I feel like I did a much better job at it. I'm still having problems of telling when I can move quicker vs a slower move, but ...

Hello! I had a question about studying Go problem sets of any kind (life and death, opneing, etc). Right now I'm looking at getting the Graded Go Problems for Beginners books eventually. However, I was wondering about how to go about studying. So far I've been told its fine to look at the answer and ...

Thank you for all the replies! It appears that I need to be way less greedy concerning center facing walls (although I need to play more territorially I've been told as well). I guess after seeing the walls build up in the first few moves I saw territory being built, and got concerned when white ...

Hey guys!
This is a game I played earlier today on KGS. It seemed to go pretty well although I know I made quite a few mistakes (as in alot I'm sure... ). During this game and several others I have had, the person always seems to start pushing, or "digging" into my territory-its around move 60 this ...