Life In 19x19

Bill Spight Thank you so much for the review! I liked your way of keeping the position simple whenever my opponent went for potential complications.

tekesta and EdLee, thank you very much for the reply! Overall, as you pointed out Edlee, sometimes I'm afraid of going over complicated fights, and tried to avoid them, because my reading is still weak.

Winning a game on fighting is possible if you have superior tactical skills. If you replay through any game record by Huang Longshi, Fan Xiping, or Shi Xiangxia, you will find that crazy tactical exchanges take place. Games by Hon'inbo Dosaku and his contemporaries also display this characteristic ...

Hi EdLee! Thank you very much for the reply and taking the time to review the game! I understood what you said, and now I see clearly where did I failed.

A natural follow-up question: did you ignore :w24: because:
you knew what you were doing (take the last open corner,
at the expense of :b23 ...

Hi to all! I'm a new member, a Go newbie (about 15 kyu) and I would like to show you a recent game I lost on OGS.

With this game my problem is not only that I played badly, but that my opponent played in a uncomfortable way to me, always going for the fight, for the kill. Right from the opening ...