you can also extend, despite the proverb, because white can make either of black's group's weak.
things are still unfinished on the left. It's not clear that black has two eyes, and black could possibly use his strength to tear white's top in two and cause all sorts of problems.
, if you play the hane, invading after is somewhat unreasonable. Your B looks like a good reduction, but there's still the aji on the upper left. Before you panic about black's moyo, don't forget that a slide or invasion at R17 is still in the cards.
or so is creative, but you could omit the 3-3 point first. I might atari first at 
instead of later.
did you think about the other atari? Not saying it's necessarily right, mind.
Not good. This is taking a vacation from the action, leading to the later loss of a lot of points on the top, and it leaves a lot of weakness locally that makes the center smaller than it looks.
Eh in private sector detritus happens:)EdLee wrote:PlaySlow wrote:4 managers are fired last week
I just finished Jump Level Up and I liked it a lot. Like you say, it is a pretty extensive survey of techniques you need to get through SDK. It concentrates on life and death and tesuji much more than fuseki and middle-game strategy, which seems to be the Korean style of teaching. Because each chapter thoroughly explores one or two techniques with tons of examples, you really get the technique drilled into you rather than encountering it in a one-off way in an individual tsumego problem.Majordomo wrote:Also, Jump Level Up? I'm thinking of buying the series, since I've heard good things about it - how has your experience with it been? What I hope to get is a thorough compendium to ensure that I'm not overlooking basic things in my play - just reading the chapter indexes it looks like it helps with things like examples for when you can double hane, when wedging is appropriate etc. Is the difficulty level fine for you or hard / easy?
I'm 7 kyu EGF, the first 2 books are too easy to be honest. 3rd book is a little harder, but if you give a careful look you can solve problems with %95+ accuracy. Didn't solve last 2 books yet. But the good thing is the books are pretty repetitive, so instead of 1 problem for 1 concept they give 6 to 12 problems for the same concept. So maybe it teaches the basic stuff better.dfan wrote:I just finished Jump Level Up and I liked it a lot. Like you say, it is a pretty extensive survey of techniques you need to get through SDK. It concentrates on life and death and tesuji much more than fuseki and middle-game strategy, which seems to be the Korean style of teaching. Because each chapter thoroughly explores one or two techniques with tons of examples, you really get the technique drilled into you rather than encountering it in a one-off way in an individual tsumego problem.Majordomo wrote:Also, Jump Level Up? I'm thinking of buying the series, since I've heard good things about it - how has your experience with it been? What I hope to get is a thorough compendium to ensure that I'm not overlooking basic things in my play - just reading the chapter indexes it looks like it helps with things like examples for when you can double hane, when wedging is appropriate etc. Is the difficulty level fine for you or hard / easy?
Possible downsides:At 4k, I breezed through the first volume and was thinking pretty hard by the end of the fifth (though everything was doable).
- Written for children, so you have to be willing to endure or ignore humor meant for 8-year-olds.
- Teaching is done almost purely through example, where sometimes more explanatory text and principles would be helpful.
) the right side was all B's territory: