Life In 19x19

Thank you all for the instructive suggestions. My own play in this situation was to immediately start cutting those points in the bottom which gave me a floating useless little group there. I was considering the flexible invasion on the left side at a as well. I have to admit that I didn't really ...

This is from one of my games, I'm black. I played the wrong joseki in the bottom left corner, giving white enormous influence. How should I counter it?

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My comment at in particular should be taken with a grain of salt since I'm not nearly strong enough to say anything decisive on the issue.

Fllecha wrote:kuroscan you please resend because data are unaviable

Okay, I think I fixed it now.

Take my comments with a grain of salt since I'm only a few stones stronger. Comments or variations at moves 9, 32, 68, 69, 73, 173:

Shenoute wrote:I hope this helps!

Absolutely, good suggestions - thanks! And you're right, I really need to sharpen up my reading, it feels like it's the key to richer gameplay.

I'm on a huge losing streak at the moment but I decided to train my emotional stamina by trying to work through it. Any advice around the game I posted is appreciated; I'll make sure to review weaker player's games in return.

http://lifein19x19.com/forum/download/file.php?id=7044

edit: full sgf ...

Basically, if you accept that reading 1 move ahead is easy from a given position, then visualize that far into the problem, and read 1 move ahead for each candidate move. Once you've read 1 move ahead, for each candidate move, you have a definite result. Then if you want to read 2 moves ahead, don ...

For example, when I do tsumego and I have to read out a long (7+ moves) squeeze sequence or similar, the stones early on in a sequence tend to get "fuzzy" and in case they get reactivated later in the sequence this becomes a liability.

Is it possible to improve this by focused training or is it one ...

Hi, certain text (like the time remaining) in the cgoban client intermittently disappears. Does anyone know how to fix this?

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