The struggles of a go enthusiast in a far away galaxy

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i would welcome any comments/reviews of my games (when i play on DGS i keep notes which appear at the last move)

Here I thought White would win when I saw :b19:. Interesting ideas such as J3 or M5 go away when you simply make White solid here.

At :w44:, White has the advantage, though I don't think this is the right point. Soon J11 will look better. Playing at G6 is not nice (heavy, gote, bad shape). At :w74: again I thought White should win.

So, it turned out to be closer than I believed.
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1/7,000,000,000 wrote:


i would welcome any comments/reviews of my games (when i play on DGS i keep notes which appear at the last move)


Here I thought White would win when I saw :b19:. Interesting ideas such as J3 or M5 go away when you simply make White solid here.

At :w44:, White has the advantage, though I don't think this is the right point. Soon J11 will look better. Playing at G6 is not nice (heavy, gote, bad shape). At :w74: again I thought White should win.

So, it turned out to be closer than I believed.
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Re: The struggles of a go enthusiast in a far away galaxy

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I went 3-1 in the tournament as a 5k. I won against a 7k,6k and 5k and lost from a 5k so i'm not overly happy about that. At least i won a prize because of the 3 wins and managed to grab a volume of the 2nd volume in the workshop series by Yilun Yang. In 3 of the games i was behind in the fuseki and as to be expected i was always the first one to go to byomi. In my 3 wins i managed to kill huge dragons. They were basically all in situations, if i couldn't kill those dragons, i would have lost all games. I used to play like that back in the day, but i'm trying to change that to no avail for the time being.

So this is what i have learned from the tournament
1. My opening is very weak for my lvl and i need to improve it. I have to learn certainly more josekis too.
2. My time management is appalling.
3. I have to stop going all in and trying to kill everything

these are the big ones, other weaknesses i spotted, counting score and learning when there is no point to keep attacking.
The only way i see to improve is to start playing again on kgs,wbaduk,tygem; DGS isn't cutting it anymore.

As promised, i give you the solutions to the previous set and a new one
This set is probably best suited to mid DDK players




ps. the solutions are mine, so if you think i made a mistake don't hesitate to contact me
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