Life In 19x19

I've been playing a lot of handicap 9x9 games and found myself struggling with a relatively simple corner sequence. Responding to the white invasion, I try playing the cut at 4:

$$W
$$ --------
$$ . . . . . |
$$ . . 1 4 . |
$$ . 2 X 3 . |
$$ . . . . . |

In a larger game, where the handicap stone ...

In Lessons in the Fundamentals of Go , Toshiro Kageyama gives the first 89 moves of a game he played against a 1k. Normally he gave this student a 6 stone handicap, but in this game he gave the student a 9 stone handicap and proceeded to methodically play through the game and win convincingly.

I'd ...

I'm struggling with reading ladders out on the board. The mechanics of play aren't an issue. Rather, my problem is that I have a hard time keeping my eyes on the lines and not accidentally skipping a line. This isn't a huge issue with short ladders, but when I'm trying to read out ladders across the ...

I've been working on the Graded Go Problems for Beginners vol. 1, and just started working through Cho Chikun's Encyclopedia of Life and Death problems. I'm really struggling with reading through problems with a lot of options, and I don't know how to approach those problems.

As an example ...