StlenVlr wrote:Don't defeat yourself. Try to aim for actually winning the game. Based on that latest game record, your moves seem to completely lack spirit and meaning, they are hollow inside. Make moves that try to accomplish something, and try to make sure that the thing you're trying to accomplish is helping you to win the game.
To me it seems like you've long since stopped actually playing go, and your moves are just whatever gut reactions and reflexes that remain. Stop being like that, start fighting back. Try to win the game by reading out sequences further, by making better shape, or by gaining important objectives throughout the board.
Might help if you were more specific.
Btw. There are times when I feel that my own play is as you describe, lacking spirit and meaning, but how can you tell this by looking at an sgf? Is it not possible that the moves are just bad because he doesn't know any better?
if only it would be that simple... 
. I was like "I wanted to connect in sente, it's reasonable, not?" 
. I don't want to spoiler the solution if anyone around my strength is reading this. It's a good exercise and I think I'll remember that better now that I found it out on my own. (And yes, I'm familiar with the concept. It still took me long to realize.)
this pincer served me well in my last game, so did it here...
was so that I can play the net later. I was afraid that E-8 and D-9 would get double-ataried. But now that I checked some variations after the game I see that it would have been no problem.
it was only to protect the net once again.
ok, one weak group is taken care of.
another group is back to ok from troublesome...
Here, you have a chance to bully S17. A rather simple sequence to do so would be R14 S14 R12
What you should try to do when you attack your opponent is to get their groups as close together as possible, and then cut. For that reason, R6 seems really wrong. Either abandon the stone for now, or jump to the center with P9
Not playing R2 makes life really easy for Black, and I don't see the upside for W. Tsuke is serious business, you usually should hane or nobi.
Connect with B10. Connection is really nice, although occasionally a bit small or slow. Here, however, there really isn't anything else you can achieve. It's a lot of points and it means B has to deal with his group in gote.
B10. The connection is worth so much here, and there really isn't any other way for any of these groups to make points.
This move should've been E14. Likewise, W probably should play F14 as soon as possible. The reason being, B playing E14 completely traps W, and W has to, in gote, make local eyes. Then again, F14 would make in uncertain if B center group can live. Regardless, B E14 could easily turn into a large moyo.
This should've been a connection with K11
E13 would live. B not playing E13 was the last mistake he made in this game.
I'll need to study Chenese some more because I get to play against it an awful lot times. I blurry remember it's advised to approach from that side, thus I normally play D-14.
approach. I was starting to feel annoyed by being pushed around like that. Probably I should have pincered around C-8? I didn't want to create mutual weak groups so I chose to fend off the corner instead.
I wanted to do something at the top left since black didn't enclose but I was unsure of the concrete spot. I think I was probably too soft. Then I thought I'd get some thickness to later attack the black group around D-9.
But black approached with good timing again (I think) so I had to delay that plan. This time I thought I had to pincer (I don't really like pincers - I'll need to play them more to get more familiar with the variations arising). I didn't want to give black the right side that easy. I didn't expect the double approach but I think in the end I came out ok (by 
).
was again good timing IMO. 
should probably be on the 3rd line instead but I thought O-2 would help me there.
I've been eying that for some time. It reduced the corner but it ended in gote and in the end I think it would have been better to just play 
: panic time. I had next to zero territory (plus komi) and black already had 10. And now that. (I didn't count that during the game, just now. But the feeling was there.)
I thought I'd mess around there to at least deny black the corner. It was only after 
that I noticed black didn't have 2 eyes. I didn't want to attack very desperately because I thought he'd either make a second eye or connect to the top. I instead wanted to erase potential at the top using my poking stones at H-12.
I thought I'd keep him pressed towards the edge. Is there a better tactic?
created a lot of bad aji for white which I failed to use - but I think I'm still more happy with the corners.
again hard to answer. The corner is too close for my 
to be effective but something like b R-15 would feel overconcentrated.
possible? How much should I worry about the cut at R-9. The ladder is for white.
feels too soft. Is there a better move to strengthen my group while threatening the corner?
felt like a super severe move. But in the end I botched it. Hmm, now that I see, 
at O-1 (capture) would have made me live, right?