SoDesuNe paves his road to Shodan

[SoDesuNe]

It can live.

Correct, at worst it should be sente seki.

In the game I msiread (there are a lot of variations), thus chickened out and invested another move.

[SoDesuNe]

Furthermore, it seemed to me that, whenever the humans went astray, they usually did so for several moves at a time. It was as if they had lost the flow of the game. On top of that, Shibano mentioned “flow” several times in his own comments. The most significant was perhaps when he revealed that he studied by playing through new games quickly either to suss out new moves or to get a feel for the flow of the game.

Emphasis added.

Interesting. I - up to now - had the feeling that by replaying one game multiple times in one sitting, I get the most out of it. Simply because I'm weak and need to follow the book closely, at least the first time I replay the game. I often felt that by the third time around I was opening up to seeing the move's influence on the board rather than "understanding" its local value.

Maybe I should try speedrunning some games - would at least make "progress" faster : D

[SoDesuNe]

That's a mighty fine one. Had seen the tesuji a couple of times in problems but this still got me ^^

$$Bc B to move
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$$ . . . . . . X X . |
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[go]$$Bc B to move
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$$ . . X X X X O . O |
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A recent game of mine with some comments (without AI, because AI thinks I suck and I think that's mean!)

[SoDesuNe]

...just because that theme keeps popping up : )

$$Bc B to move
$$ --------------
$$ | . X . . . .
$$ | X O O . . .
$$ | X X O . . .
$$ | . X O , . .
$$ | . X . O . .
$$ | . . X O . .
$$ | . X O O . .
$$ | . X O . . .
$$ | O O O . . .
$$ | . . . . . .

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[go]$$Bc B to move
$$ --------------
$$ | . X . . . .
$$ | X O O . . .
$$ | X X O . . .
$$ | . X O , . .
$$ | . X . O . .
$$ | . . X O . .
$$ | . X O O . .
$$ | . X O . . .
$$ | O O O . . .
$$ | . . . . . .[/go]

[Bill Spight]

It can live.

Correct, at worst it should be sente seki.

In the game I msiread (there are a lot of variations), thus chickened out and invested another move.

The rule of thumb that 8 is alive would have stood you in good stead. I doubt if either A-04 or F-03 now would carry enough of a threat to be a double sente. And even if Black to play were able to make a ko, is that big enough to worry about now?

[SoDesuNe]

Two games with my own review.

I'm on a winning streak right now scratching at 2-dan KGS. And now that I wrote that I jinxed it - but that's okay: Sometimes you win, sometimes you learn : )

[SoDesuNe]

My game to 2-dan KGS.

A lot of mistakes, the last one luckily by my opponent.

[SoDesuNe]

I approach the level cap on goproblems.com. There are only 256 problems 1-dan and upwards and I'm already hovering at a 6-dan rating because of all the easier problems I solve correctly.

Guess I have to branch out - anyone now another source of problems to solve online (not Go Heroes ^^)?

Alternatively I use UliGo and start transfering my problems books to sgf. UliGo tracks the time, the attempts and also implements some sort of "spaced repetition". I don't get a shiny rank, though...

[Farodin]

I would highly recommend 101weiqi. It is fully in Chinese, but they have a huge collection of problems, some of them even coming from famous problem collections, like Lee Chang Ho's Life and Death (or its sister Tesuji collection), Go Seigen/Segoe Kensaku Tesuji dictionary, etc. In order to navigate the site, you can take a look at this guide. It will also tell you about the different modes of solving problems that you can choose from.

If you need any help finding a specific tsumego/tesuji collection on there, you can let me know, and I'll give you the link!

[SoDesuNe]

Nice, thank you - especially for the guide : D

I grinded myself to 6-kyu yesterday on the time trials and I plan to take a closer look into tasks now. I could see myself take on my rotating-tsumego-book-approach again from a while back : )

[SoDesuNe]

First game against a 3-dan.

Made a direction-of-play-mistake early on and never recovered. Did not have the gut for going all-in, too. Should work on kiai : D



Played a 3-dan Fox game after that. Had a promising position and threw it away because I was too focused on killing a group and then I missed that he could cut a group of mine...

[SoDesuNe]

Regarding this game and my comment on move 21: It's not a mistake.

Just watched Micheal Redmond's 3*3-joseki-lecture (https://youtu.be/2khNnE5Q3GM) and it is the modern way to play this joseki when White in this case stretches instead of double-hane. So I guess my hane at the head of three stones was good and mistakes were made later.

My game to 2-dan KGS.

A lot of mistakes, the last one luckily by my opponent.

[SoDesuNe]

My rebound game to 2-dan.

Please help me out on moves:

, and onwards (especially ), and - thanks : )

[Shaddy]

38 - I might just enclose top left. Pincer is sort of pointless because of black K4 stone. The game variation is fine.

48 - I'd much rather enclose the corner.

66 is a touch slow
68 - This is a move for very exceptional circumstances. When the group you're reinforcing is strong, you should hardly think of it. This should be H16.
70 is a bad exchange
72 appears questionable
74 is a bad exchange. Change the order, imagine you played 74 first - then Black naturally pushes, and you will play kosumi away?
I don't like 76, because I don't think White has any serious threat on the central black group.
78 should be A as you say

Consider your moves from 68 to 80. Which of them has made points, and how many? My plan would have been to close Black in on top and extend down the left, fwiw.

[Bill Spight]

A few comments:

If you do not feel confident playing a framework game, why play here? Just making an enclosure is fine, maybe even better.

Excellent, as we now know.

Hane. According to Elf, the old joseki is good for White when there are two side star stones. Black ends up overconcentrated, I suppose. OC, after that, you don't invade a side. Just play an enclosure.

In the old days I would have recommended enclosing the top left corner. Then if Black pincers the bottom left, play a counterpincer, probably at C-07, and after Black presses against the White corner stone, make a base at C-10 on the left side. That way White gets a double wing. I think that it is late enough in the opening to play that way today, as well.

Otherwise, how about a kick in the bottom left corner, followed by a one space extension on the 3d line? The problem with that is that Black gets to approach the top left corner.

Why not attach underneath?

I don't think that a would have been good. Your way looks right.

My feeling is the hane at E-15. It's not like you are walling off territory or anything. But maybe E-15 is too slow, as well.

Certainly playable, if not best.

, I am not thrilled with strengthening Black. Besides, Black might ignore the first peep and sacrifice one stone.

I would lay stake to the huge box on the left side. Manna from heaven.

Invites . You can reduce the right side without this play. Doing so might count as a leaning attack.

Before playing the slide on the bottom side, reducing the left side seems like a good idea. I would start with the shoulder blow, however.

Huh?

White 100: Thanks to you can stand with sente.