Games I played and stuff

[Unusedname]

I get excited to attack my opponents weak groups only to find that I'm the one with weak groups.

Probably a result from constantly pushing my opponents stones the wrong way.

This game was frustrating. White had a lonely noodle in the center but it was still a nuisance ._.

A game I had time to play between Black Ops.


Aside: Go made me look at black ops very differently.

Pointing and shooting would be the basic fundamentals.
Then fancy things like Line of Sight and Flanking would be more abstract theory.
Moving while you shoot is somewhere between fundamental and abstract.

The point is when I was a beginner I didn't even think of things like this.
And I can tell when my opponents don't think about these things.

And in my Go I have an extremely different view of the game then when I first started.
And even when I first started posting on the forums. (Not the journal. I believe I still think similarly to when I first made this thread)

It made me wonder what the fundamentals were of other games I've played.
And it's just fun to think about.

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I have this problem where whenever I read this move it doesn't register as a hane.

Idk

[Unusedname]

This was a weird calm handicap game.



I got kind of lost with nothing to easily attack. I gave black a very thick group at the start

I think I missed a lot of good opening moves.

This game made me notice how big the big moves are. if that makes sense.
This was also a game where I didn't fully attack a group all at once but instead slowly attacked it as the game went on.

Overall a really strange game for me.
I felt I got really lucky my opponent played a lot of moves i didn't understand.

[Unusedname]

Overconcentration

So I know how to make groups weak.
At first it was
How do I surround them? How do I shrink their eye space? How can I poke out eyes?
This eventually evolved and added.
How can I invade and split him into two weak groups?
How can I cut his stones to make him work against himself?

I have an idea of how to move stones.
Where can he run? Where do I block him from?

Which led to an idea of, How do I chase him to force me to make moves I want to make.

I don't really understand over concentration.

How do I make his move redundant?
But without being adji keshi.

How can I force him to make a bad move without giving him the opportunity to make excellent double purpose moves?

I'm guessing this has a lot to do with order of play.

Or maybe it's more of forcing him to defend his territory?

Idk over concentration is still very abstract to me.
More abstract then Inducing moves.

I can see basic inducing moves. But right now i'm having trouble thinking of a plan to over concentrate someone.

[Unusedname]

Lose 4 games Win 1 game. in the past 3 days
Demoralizing.
I seem to hit a wall everytime I get to 3kyu

Perspective
Which suggests I'm just not thinking about the game correctly.

With still so much room to grow it's gotta be a mindset thing.

There has to be some manuever or tactic that I don't know. And I don't know that I don't know it.

My last big leap in rank came from a changed perspective and I'm convinced that another jump is an idea away.

How do you give yourself an idea you don't know exists.

The common suggestion is deepen your reading. But maybe I'm not reading the right things.

rambles and rambles.

The list of ways to improve grows. But executing these plans is still mystifying.

How to Read

It's easy for me to think I play here he plays here then I'll play here.

My thought starts with.

1. I play this move what can I do if black plays elsewhere.

Maybe I should think in the other order.

1. If I pass where will black play.
2. Can I pass on that next move?
3. How big of a follow up do I need to pass on that move?

Ah or maybe I should think

1. What are all the moves I want to make?
2. How can I make these moves in such an order that they avalanche/induce into the other moves I want to make?

And add somewhere

3. What are all the moves my opponent could make that I would respond to?


Something for me to think about.

[Unusedname]

Bought Xcom which is why I stopped playing for about a week.

But halithorn is back and I need to be at tip top shape!

I ended up playing a game that looks sort of like my malkovitch game.
It's making my reaction to his invasion look like a big mistake....

Ah well.

Looking at Ed's thread I realized i haven't actually made a goal.

But 3 months later and I'm still 4kyu (technically 3kyu but the rank isn't solid yet)

I looked over the game lovelove reviewed since it was the first one there and I see a lot of my own moves I don't agree with. Which is good! because it means i'm changing my perspective. I might have changed to worse opinions but at least it means my Go isn't set in stone. I'm still flexible.

Here I will make a proclamation for 1 Dan (Only 30 points away).
I started flipping through some opening problems. They make a bit more sense. The answers aren't way too hard to understand.
The idea of 3rd and 4th line stones makes a bit more sense.

Now i'm just rambling.

edit: !
I figured out yet another way I can improve!

A bad habit has been identified.
I never push groups in to my weak groups.
That's common sense to me.
If you have two sides to push your opponent you push by strengthening your weaker group.
This is right a lot of the time, but sometimes you need to push your opponent into your weak group and his move will
"Induce you to strengthen your own group.

or whatever.
But yeah I need to figure out when it's okay to push into your weakness and when it's not.

[skydyr]

Slightly off-topic, what did you think of the Xcom game?

[Unusedname]

It was great.
It has Final Fantasy Tactics style combat.
An interesting base management system.
Great pacing. I didn't have time to think "Aw this is all i get..." because something new would keep coming and it would keep itself interesting.


It is also perfect at making you feel completely hopeless and overwhelmed by all the things you need to do but you have limited time to do it.
(Which you should enjoy because you're on a go forum.)
Also when your soldiers die, they die for good. Which really adds to the whole hopeless feeling.
Like all your decisions matter and making the wrong decision can put you far behind.

Also there's a point in the game where you have this great victory and it feels like all the pressure is off. But then it just starts getting hammered down on you again.

Seriously great game. I loved it. And it's a game about aliens!! How cool is that.

There's a lot more I could just rave about but I don't want to spoil too much haha.

[skydyr]

Have you played the original, and how did it stack up in comparison?

[Unusedname]

Naw, I didn't. I wouldn't be able to compare the too. But i still highly recommend this game.

[hailthorn011]

Hey I didn't play for an entire month so you might not have to worry about too much! But speaking of getting back in tip-top shape....

[Unusedname]

Didn't play for an entire month, or spent a month reading out the whole game from move 11. Hmmmmmmm.

[hailthorn011]

Didn't play for an entire month, or spent a month reading out the whole game from move 11. Hmmmmmmm.

Oh yes, I spent an entire month poring over the importance of Move 11. It even haunted my dreams.

Honestly though, I didn't even realize it had already been a month. Pretty shocking. Longest I've gone without playing at least a single game since 2010.

[Unusedname]

Hahaha.

Well that's good you took a little break.

You weren't feeling like playing, or was it that school became too overwhelming?

[hailthorn011]

Hahaha.

Well that's good you took a little break.

You weren't feeling like playing, or was it that school became too overwhelming?

Well, there was a lot going on. But I guess I just didn't realize how fast time was going by.

[Unusedname]

Oh i hear that for sure. It's scary how fast time moves before you even notice it.