Life In 19x19

I'll heed your advice then and try to play (lose most likely), without using analyze tools, as much games as I can. Be warned: if after that 100th game I still feel awkward and insecure, I will be back here demanding more advice =P.

I have not played very many games Hi Nordico,

Have you finished about 100 games already so far ?

If you have finished much less than 100 games,
I recommend you finish 100 games as soon as your time allows you to.

If you have already finished about 100 games,
then consider to have your games ...

Hi Nordico, is your displayed rank in your info here, 30k, up-to-date ?
If not, do you know your approx. current level ?

I am not sure. I have not played very many games; according to online-go I am 15 kyu; but last game I played against a 13 kyu who said I was much stronger than that. Again, I ...

Since I started playing go (not so long ago, about a year and a half), I think most of my "serious" games have been long games in online go. I think I may rely a little too much in the simulator (which allows me not to just imagine but actually to play out and see possible outcomes to plays) and in ...

Hello everyone; I'm here to post another game asking for review and advice =D.

(1) I don't know if this is because of having a few more plays on me, or because this was the first time I played with white, but I really felt the struggle of having to sacrifice the opportunity to strengthen (or in ...

I think you are correct - I was trying to check if black could live outright, but didn't look out for seki. My moves at 131 and 132 in that branch were also mistakes. Sorry for the sloppy/sleepy review.

Nah, thank you for the review. It made me think about a path I had discarded before really ...

@b: Too much credit for me. It was Uberdude, the maestro himself.

Corrected =P. Thanks for that, and also for the rank.


Fuseki is no unheard of in pro games - but white is usually more aggressive in the opening. Moves 11-15 were the turning point for white in my 9k opinion.

Thanks for the ...

Now it's not that the fuseki is wrong (who am I to say what's wrong) but it is just weird. You never see these kinds of openings from 15k to 9p.

Really? In the opening I just tryed to play using the general advice given in the "Learn to play go" series, by Janice Kim, which says (in its fifth ...

Hello; having had a quite pleasant and useful experience previously , I am back to share another game in hopes of getting more reviews and other useful opinions =).

Here is my take on the game (I am hiding it in case you like to see the game and form your own ideas before seeing what I was thinking ...

Viator: Thanks for the review! I'm reposting it here embedded in the post for easier reference.

Move 42: When you say "If black wants to play C10 he should play it now" you mean that my play at B43 was well timed? or that I should have played it as an answer to W38 instead? or something else?

Move ...

Thank you all for the responses and kind words! I guess all that book reading (oh, I also tried to "study" a fairly good number of games) really paid off: my strategy is based in trying to apply the intuition inherited from that, rather than actual thorough conscience of what I am doing (I guess ...

Hello everyone; I have started practicing this very interesting game not so long ago, and yesterday I played my very first "real" game in 19x19 (I played twice before but my opponents didn't seem to be familiar with the "litle-more-than-basic" whole board strategies). Of course, I was utterly ...