Life In 19x19

Thanks for the review. Very useful for me.

Another review request. I feel like I've improved a bit lately but there are still many holes in my game. Especially when facing invasions I think I'm throwing away a lot as shown in this game. I luckily end up winning comfortably because he plays far too greedy. The longer the game lasts the more ...

Ohhh, now i see it. Thats indeed a very good shape to remember!

Hi SerDiuK,

The shaped pointed out by schawipp is good, basic, and important to remember. :)

:w8: What's your plan (if any), if :b9: inside hane at C4 ?

:w10: What's your plan (if any), if :b11: cuts at C6 ?

:w18: OK for now. You ...

After the last move in the SGF, white still has a big "endgame" at upper side, did you play it?

I didn't play anything. In all honesty I still don't see it.

:w7: Your refutation of B's weird jump move seems fine to me. W gets a big corner and connection to the side. B doesn't really get much of ...

Hey guys. After a long break I've started playing Go again. I had some success initially moving up to 16k on Tygem but I've fallen back to 18k since. Since then I'm trying to play a game every day and reviewing it on KGS after a few hours to improve my game.

This was today's game. This is likely ...

[quote="ez4u"]Play the double approach. It has the added advantage that as a noob you probably will get the chance to study the attach-extend joseki in a situation where it actually makes sense. :)
White probably continues with either :w2: or "a" below. Work on understanding the differences in ...

Thank you guys, I've done some research through sensei's library and it all makes much more sense.

Oh thanks a lot.



This was the situation. Should I enclose my corner then?

Hey guys,

I've had several times that I approach my opponent's 4-4 corner with a knight's move and he does a tenuki that I don't need to respond to.

How do I attack that corner then? Every time it happens to me it tends to end badly.

Thanks.

Thanks! I know Ko fights but I need a lot more practice to get good at them and to see them haha!

Very cool analysis, thank you!

Thanks for the tip about the first line! That's the kinda simple yet important thing that I was looking for.

A teaching game would certainly be useful!

I was confused about the left group's life or death. Once he plays the stone in the middle of my group, how should I react so that I can score ...

Bonobo wrote:Here’s the “clubs” page of the Belgian Go Federation: http://www.gofed.be/clubs there also is one in Geel

Med vriendelijke groeten,

Tom

Thanks! According to the website the Geel club sadly closed down in 2013 though.

http://files.gokgs.com/games/2014/6/19/SerDiuK-otakamoku.sgf

I played this game against an 18k beginner on KGS. My 4th game against a human opponent. I was quite happy I stayed within 80 points this time.

I'm looking for some general hints. I really had no control of the middle.

I'm also ...

Thanks, I'll join the KGS group for sure.

I saw about the club in Antwerp before. I'll try to go there sometime this vacation when I don't have football practice.