Life In 19x19

I have been going to a go club and have been on another online forum and was told by both places to stop reading books (by a 2d and a 3d player) to supplement playing. I was told they do nothing as "you can't understand it, so don't waste your time". I was reading In the Beginning and Way of the ...

Have you tried playing on a larger board? Maybe 19x19 or even just 13x13? At your level, games on these larger boards -- particularly the 19x19 -- usually involve both players making and recovering from many mistakes. As a friend of mine once said when he was at your level, if you mess up in one ...

Are you saying that you don't see how at 10 is better than in the actual game?

I see why it is better, it stops white from completing a capture of a stone and it also allows black to cut white apart. My problem is why I don't see those moves unless it's way after the fact.

Black 9 is a big mistake I feel. Keeping your stones connected is very important. Connected stones form bigger groups, bigger groups are less subject to dying and can enclose more territory.

By playing 9 black allows white to cut him into two groups. If 9 is played at 10 instead black's groups ...

Would you feel comfortable posting one of your games? Perhaps the one that you feel you played best.

This is the game where I felt I played my best but I know I made a ton of really stupid mistakes.

I've been playing for over a month now and I have played well over a 100 games, I'm super frustrated that I can't even win a game on a 9x9 playing against people who are "the same level" I play against 25k players and get destroyed. Even thought it says on OGS I'm 23k, I have won 5 out of the last ...