Life In 19x19

You have created the option to take the 2 stones, but you don't need to do it now because that white group is already strong so it's just a big endgame move now.


Aha! I understand! The fact that it does not influence life/death status of any groups makes the move of lower priority.

This also ...

After showing a game (which is very similar to the one I attached in this post), the professional pointed to move mistakes, but I did not get any big (excuse the pun) picture assessment of what is wrong with my game. So in essence, the advice I got was to keep doing life and death and play more ...

Thanks guys for the comments, you are always so helpful!

Hi Tapani,

Thanks for sharing. (;GM[1]FF[4]SZ[19]AP[SmartGo Kifu:4.7.3]CA[UTF-8]
DT[2019-06-12]
RE[W+T];B[qd];W[dd];B[pq];W[dq];B[fc];W[cf];B[db];W[cc];B[ic];W[od];B[mc]
;W[pf];B[qf];W[pg];B[qg];W[ph];B[pc];W[po];B[qo];W[qn];B[qp];W[pn];B ...

And another year has gone by.

Took a long break from go, but have slowly started to get back into shape. In chess taking 6-month+ breaks often resulted in me being slightly tactically rusty, but after some tactics training I usually felt I was better than ever.

The experiment in go seems to point ...

Second, "similar positions" is a vague phrase. Look again at Uberdude's analysis. He started by identifying connected groups of stones. Then he counted their dame. Then he highlighted cutting points. You could have a "similar position" where Black had no cutting points, and then White might indeed ...

The trick is just to figure out which basic principle to obey each move and where

At move 71 with the following position you said
This is so counterintuitive to me, but happens over and over. White stones has NO eyes, cannot run and still wins the fight, and black ends up dying badly.
...

Can you see why my intuition is the opposite to yours?


THIS. Thank you! Let me ...

So just to add a bit to the discussion, here is the list of "non standard" properties the GoReviewPartner uses to record extra information:

[list]
[*]RAVE: RAVE(x%% : y) Still in use by many bots, especially one 9x9 or 13x13 where no neural networks have been trained

I don't know what RAVE or ...

Many of these rules vary region to region.

For instance in Taiwan there seems to be no clear limit when you can pause the clock to pick up a large number of stones, most people agree that 5-6 stones or more is enough.

Also using the same hand to play and press the clock does NOT apply here ...

Thank you for the comments.

It is clear that some of my instincts are a bit off, and you guys are right that I probably got tilted early on (had lost a few similar games before this one in a similar style - where opponent is not trying to make any territory, but hoping I make a mistake and die ...

hello, i have been living in Taiwan for about 2 years without knowing there are playing places near taipei. I really wanna go to such places on weekends. However, my Chinese is insufficient to communicate. I'm more than happy if someone can go with me. Is there anyone? Thank you.

Tried Minsheng ...

Hi everyone,

this is a game I lost against an opponent whose every move is an attachment (ok, not all but 72 of 80 stones).

What typically happens is that I spend all my time trying to read out variations, inevitably getting some of them wrong, and then making big mistakes when in byo-yomi.

Any ...

First, I am a few stones weaker than you so my comments are rather a "reverse" review. There are some moves where I feel you played differently than I would have - which means one of us might have something to learn (likely me).

Is this move sente? Is black really dead if he does not respond? I ...

The workaround is to click on review, and use the estimator in the review window.

I have now played my first OTB tournament.

It has been some bit of trouble for me to join a real tournament, since many tournaments wants to place you in the right division for your rank (3k, 4k, ...) and since I had no rank, I could not sign up. ( Almost all tournaments have cash prizes and they ...