Uberdude wrote:Aidoneus, can I suggest you post 2 alternative moves you considered for each move. This way we can see if you are considering better moves but dismissing therm through faulty judgement, or failing to find them. It's also a good discipline to follow and should make you play better.
#244 Bill vs Ed
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Re: #244 Bill vs Ed
Thank you for your advice! Oh, and since I'm still looking at these moves as follow-ups, I can wait till the end of the game to read any criticisms, thanks.
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Re: #244 Bill vs Ed
Hi Ed, I hope your trip is going well! Just past 2:00 AM here, old man up to urinate and can't get back to sleep, so figured I'd check online. Happy happenstance. 
EDIT: http://www.scientificamerican.com/artic ... o-urinate/
EDIT: http://www.scientificamerican.com/artic ... o-urinate/
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Re: #244 Bill vs Ed
is normally at 36, and here is why. Black contains White in the corner and takes sente.Edit: Unhidden.
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I have no idea why I thought you were in Europe. I would love to travel overseas some day.
? I thought it was normal to wait for a double enclosure to jump into the 3-3-
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directly at 3-3 instead of 
attach at (a),
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Re: #244 Bill vs Ed
Aidoneus wrote:
Don't ask me, I'm just playing the "standard" corner moves that end in gote.
Well, we'll see if Aidoneus changes his mind, but this is why people advise against learning joseki. As Znosko-Borovsky said about chess, Do not make opening moves automatically and without reflection.
Maybe he will realize that after
, Black can and should take sente and play elsewhere.If White does cut, Black has a ladder starting with
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, 
, but should things change so that the ladder no longer works, Black can sacrifice the 
stone as shown. WTP? (What's The Problem?)Normally White will not cut but in the endgame play the clamp with
, leading to 
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, 
. Preventing that is small. Black should not take gote now.I did notice that by playing first at C16, instead of C17, Ed induced the direction he wanted me to block.
Interesting observation. "If White had started on the 3-3, I would have blocked at C-16, but he has cleverly played to induce me to transpose into a variation in which I blocked at D-17." Wait a second! As Emmanuel Lasker might have said, Black has not made a mistake by blocking at C-15. Can White really force me, in effect, into making an inferior play? Maybe so, but maybe not. If White wants me to play at D-17, maybe I should make a different play.
If Aidoneus had followed that train of thought, he might have found the descent to B-15 or the solid connection at D-15.
Edit: Unhidden.
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