Life In 19x19

A game lost to 3 kyu where i was white. He played solid and i was behind all game long. Comments and questions are inside the sgf! Thanks in advance!

(;GM[1]FF[4]CA[UTF-8]AP[CGoban:3]ST[2]
RU[Japanese]SZ[19]KM[6.50]TM[1500]OT[5x30 byo-yomi]
PW[wretched]PB[ronuma]WR[3k]BR[3k]DT[2017-02-04]PC ...

Congratz on your 1st win against 1d! Also I liked black's position in the early game very much. Your tenuki'ing in some critical moment gained you great momentum imo.

Another win against 4 kyu while i was Black. I'm trying the basic opening in "Becoming 5 kyu videos" from Baduk TV.

(;GM[1]FF[4]CA[UTF-8]AP[CGoban:3]ST[2]
RU[Japanese]SZ[19]KM[0.00]TM[600]
GN[]PW[红枫黄坤华]PB[eksert]DT[2017-01-29]RE[B+Resign]TC[3]TT[30]
;B[dp]
;W[pp]
;B[dd]
;W[pc]
;B[nq ...

A little statistics from my games;

Statistics

Win Perc
Black 54.55%
White 67.86%

Total Games Played 50
Total Days 58
Game/Day 0.86
Win Perc 62.00%

Black Opening & Win Perc
LOW CHINESE 33.33%
44, 34 LC alike then approach 100.00%
44, 34 LC alike then 34 shimari 66.67 ...

Another KGS game vs 1kyu, which i lost with Black. I thought my right side group was fine all game long somehow.. My questions and review can be found in the game. I think I try to read so many variants in game and losing time reading insensible variants.
By the way I became a 4kyu in KGS with my ...

1 more game against a 5 kyu KGS.
(;GM[1]FF[4]CA[UTF-8]AP[CGoban:3]ST[2]
RU[Japanese]SZ[19]KM[6.50]TM[600]OT[5x20 byo-yomi]
PW[Secil]PB[Sakago]WR[5k]BR[5k]DT[2017-01-22]PC[The KGS Go Server at m]C[I was white in this game. I indicate the moves i thought with letters thru the games.]RE[W+14.50 ...

My study schedule now is that I'm solving questions from 1001 L&D questions, Cho's Elementary L&D and Get Strong at Tesuji at the moment. Other than this I go over a few corner situations each date cumulatively (1 situation at day1, 2 sit. at day 2,... 7 sit at day7) & repetitively from 100 Tips for ...

(;GM[1]FF[4]CA[UTF-8]AP[CGoban:3]ST[2]
RU[Japanese]SZ[19]HA[2]KM[0.50]TM[1500]OT[5x30 byo-yomi]
PW[mathematic]PB[negapesuo]WR[9k]BR[11k]DT[2017-01-10]PC[The KGS Go Server at m]AB[pd][dp]C[negapesuo [11k\]: hello gg
]RE[B+21.50]
;W[pp]WL[1493.856]
;B[dc]BL[1496.305]C[mathematic [9k\]: hi
]
;W[de ...

Your play in this last game seemed very mature to me. I particularly liked your willingness to make thickness, use thickness to attack instead of take territory, and sacrifice stones. I don't think your stop at 5 kyu will be very long.

Thank you for the courage mate! I have stopped for a long ...

Another win against a 5 kyu. I was Black this game. Thanks to your comments, I have finally managed to become a 5 kyu from 11 kyu in 1 effective (without long pauses) year. Maybe more If i play more, we'll see, I have %100 win percentage against 5 kyus now!

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A little update from me! My go work schedule is as follows;

[*] Solving tesuji and L&D problems from Get Strong at Tesuji, Cho Elementary and 1001 L&D.
[*] Learning josekis from my games and practicing them each day in a repetitive manner.
[*] Playing games (1 per day average) & reviewing each of ...

@Skydyr Thank you for your comments! I just didn't get one thing, after E2, if Black plays G1, G2, J3 or J2 to defend the cutting point at G2, can White live in the corner?

Hello again! Another game with some questions.. Especially about the bottom left corner situation. I think he should be in a worse position than me after the exchanges..
(;GM[1]FF[4]CA[UTF-8]AP[CGoban:3]ST[2]
RU[Japanese]SZ[19]KM[0.00]TM[900]
GN[]PW[eksert]PB[如何生存]DT[2016-12-29]C[I wasn ...

Thanks for the review skydyr!
Here's another game I lost to a player who makes overextensions all over the board at the beginning of the game.

(;GM[1]FF[4]CA[UTF-8]AP[CGoban:3]ST[2]
RU[Japanese]SZ[19]KM[0.00]TM[600]
GN[]PW[逍遥柯]PB[eksert]DT[2016-12-23]C[I'll show the moves i've considered ...

Another game against a 5 kyu. I felt like I'm ahead all game long until end game. I couldn't use the aji and thickness properly imo as well as some ddk moves here and there.
I noticed was 1 line off after review:D, don't u agree?
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RU[Japanese]SZ[19]KM[0.00 ...