Life In 19x19

Edit2: Though I do think the op may have had good reason for being annoyed his reaction was clearly out of line.
It was a reaction of anger. Those are usually bad. Not to say that anger excuses everything, but most of us lowly humans aren't at our best when we're extremely pissed.

However, the ...

When you're in your last byoyomi period it shows up as "sudden death 30s" (or whatever the length of your byoyomi period is) on KGS. I assume that's what he meant.

Perhaps you shouldn't have played at a time control that had you in sudden death byo-yomi at the end of the game. I generally won't play with anything less than 30 seconds byo-yomi unless the main time is longer than normal.
What does it have to do with the matter above?
Being in sudden death byo ...

Yeah the laptop is very annoying. And my identity card too. Because I'm a foreigner I have to go to the embassy in Berlin to request a new one, about 600 km from where I live.

I haven't played any go in a week. My bag was stolen last week at the central station.
On top of money, credit cards, IDs, and so on, I lost my laptop with all the data on it, the hand written game records from the tournament, and the two go books I was studying at the moment.
I've been very pissed ...

I feel for you. Losing on the last move is highly frustrating. Playing online makes it a tad to easy for people to act like jerks but there isn't much we can do against it.


[*]We've never had such a place. (But I heard ancient Rome enjoyed a few hundred years of a very peaceful period, not ...

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(using your opponent's approach to build territory) It could go this way, it doesn't have to. But I was curious to know your plan.

I don't know the 'how'.
You and me both. The 'how' is always the bigger challenge

Now I want to explore what replying with O16 would look like, because variation ...

Anyway, you're correct that tsumego comes first
How about the lower side of the board? What is the status of the black group?

You say at that you are trying to stick to the plan. What is your plan?

Edit: a couple of comments about the opening moves:

I'm assuming that this is quite casual and experimentive, and not going in the direction of hardcore military training programs You assume correctly
I rarely ever suggest playing around with CGoban or my go set to my kid. He usually bugs me himself to do it. Sometimes because he sees me reviewing ...

I think when he gets a bit older at least going to tournaments could awaken his interest for the game. Actually he and my husband visited the local tournament I was at last weekend. It's a small tournament but there were several kids there (one of them beat me ). He was very interested and wanted ...

EdLee wrote:Compare to your first diagram in post 109.
No shortcuts. It's all work.

Point made

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this is truly bizarre. Can you find a better local move ?

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