Life In 19x19

I think the "lose 50 games" should be amended by adding lose 50 games in which you pay attention and think about your moves. If you just throw stones around and don't pay attention to what happens you'll never get any better. If you pay attention and think about your moves (have goals and plans ...

Unlearning whatever bad habits you have learned tends to be more difficult than learning new things. For that reason, taking break from go tends to work to your benefit.

W was a sandbagger the best I can tell. He seemed to understand basic shapes well enough to be around 15k or so. You played pretty well, now it's just practice practice on a big board, and after a week or two you should be able to take a rematch against this W. I don't really have any other sort of ...

The best I can tell, the game was ultra blitz with 10min absolute time, and the game ending with W being dead from move 182 to 192, then B making 150pt misplay and losing semeai that's roughly half the board worth.

Such games are not often that useful for reviewing purposes. It's very difficult to ...

rating changes randomly

I'm not sure I follow this part of your post. IGS is one of the least random rating systems out there. It's very easy to calculate the RP gained and lost from games. How are you using random here?

KGS is probably the most random. Tygem is very stable. Wbaduk you can ...

Personally, I like IGS(as a beginner, and as of now) precisely because of the disconnect between rating and playing strength. The reason for that is that you don't really need to care about the number you're given. You can play whoever, rating changes randomly, and all you are guaranteed is a very ...

By move 76 Black has more or less lost, so I won't review moves past that.

leichtloeslich demonstrated a nice variation on this. Your move is very passive, granting W opportunity to develop both sides.
This seems very questionable. By making W stronger you are also making it more difficult for ...

It once happened to me that my opponent didn't want to accept that L in the corner was dead. So we played it out and I forgot to eliminate KO threats beforehand so it lived and I lost. But at least I learned my lesson and I will not forget that again.

Under Japanese rules, bent L in the corner is ...

If you play a lot, taking a break is a good time to let all that playing experience sink in. I got from 4k to 2k by stopping playing for two months.

I founded a go club ages ago, it basically had a couple of 5k level players + me(1d then). Now I moved to a bigger city so we just have like 10 1-4d players and some random kyu players every once in a while(kinda depending on the meeting how many kyu players we get. Occasionally there aren't any ...

Just resign when you think you don't have a chance.

That doesn't mean "oh if i "trick" him here i can win", it means "i don't think there is any place i can play regularly and win"

If you're playing a teaching game, let them decide when you should resign.

People tend to resign when they are ...

Just playing games is good, against varying levels of opponents. You might prefer some less serious go server for random games, such as PlayOK, because you don't really want to keep track of your rating or have that much consistency in strength of your opponents, but just get to see as many ...

The biggest mistake is that you sort of failed with R8 and Q4 groups. You had a good game going until maybe move . Instead of Q9, you could've played S10, and you would've only had 1 weak group to worry about on that side of the board. But you did not play that, and instead you destroyed that ...

I often hear about "Don't use walls to make territory", and I think this proverb is slightly wrong. I mean, it is a good broad advice, but the cases when it's wrong are a bit difficult to tell from when the proverb is right.

The fundamental reason people advise against making territory with walls ...

I encountered "QtWidgets: No such file or Directory" during make for QGo 2.

Ubuntu 12.4. QMake -v reports I should have Qt v. 4.8

Quick googling suggested editing some .pro file, but I deleted the folder for now, I'll try from scratch tomorrow, to see if I managed to break anything while I ...