Life In 19x19

Thank you for all of the comments EdLee! They are very helpful. I know that my moves are very slow, but I'm finding it hard to make larger moves without sacrificing good shape. Is this something which comes with experience / something I can actively work on? I feel that playing many 9x9 games may ...

I have been focusing on good shape much more recently thanks to your feedback, and playing a lot of 9x9 games. I don't have enough time to play 9x9 games as well as do tsumego, so I'm leaning more towards playing games (9x9 and 19x19) at the moment. I think my reading is much stronger than my ...

Thanks for the advice! I have lost a few games recently due to what I thought were oversights, but it seems that was due to a lack of good shape knowledge. I will definitely add some 9x9 games in.

I started playing about a month and a half ago, and I am only a lowly 23k, but I am thoroughly enjoying the game, and that's what is important . Hopefully this study journal will encourage me to stick with Go.

As a short term goal I aim to reach 5k (I've heard people say this is where you have ...

Sen:te Goban is a nice mac app which supports GnuGo and Pachi with an extension, and an older version is available free. There is also a post on this forum with a list of some other mac apps.