Well, yes, but as Takagawa said, it is very difficult to make territory. By which he meant that if you develop rapidly enough, you do not make territory. You make territory as a result of local fights or skirmishes. The kyu disease is to try to make sure territory early in the game and fall behind in development.Fedya wrote:There are a lot of cooments here to digest, so I'm likely going to be posting multiple replies here and coming back to some of the comments farther down the thread later in the day.
DrStraw asked:I thought the point of the game was to get more territory than your opponent.Why dwell so much on territory?
The three stones are heavy because they do not have eye potential, and, since they form a unit, it is not easy to throw them away. That would be true if you made a hanging connection (tiger's mouth), as well. It is much easier to throw two stones away than three, which is why tenuki is a good idea at this point. Besides, you keep sente.Ed Lee wrote:I specifically played this connect instead of the tiger mouth because in a previously game I posted here, I played the tiger mouth, and was told I should just connect directly. So now I have to learn when one should play the direct connect and when one should play the tiger mouth.this connect makes your group very heavy.
That is not a bad idea.One of the things that I've hoped I can get out of a review is something that will enable me to figure out what to do in that next game, when the principles are more or less the same, but the position is different enough that you can't just follow the principles by rote. One of the things I think about when I'm playing and I'm in a position where I don't know what to do, is to ask myself what strong players would suggest I should do.
Don't be so quick to judge.Unsurprisingly, the answers aren't as good as what strong players actually play themselves.
For instance, you played the invasion at 
because of your thickness on the left side. That was a pretty good play. You did not get a good result from it for two reasons. First, at 
you did not play the descent to the second line, which would have threatened the bottom left corner, and your failure to play the descent allowed Black to give you bad shape. Second, you made an unnecessary defensive play at 
, a play which you yourself recognized as bad. You could have used your thickness not only to take away a few potential points from Black on the bottom side, but also to build something of your own in the bottom right quadrant. OC, you will always make errors. We all do.
But as you get better you will make different errors. 
The fact that you may make errors later on does not detract from the good plays that you do make.
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the March game is quite different from 