Life in 19x19 Title Tournament, Round 1 and 2 draws

Aphelion · Post by **Aphelion** » Thu Aug 12, 2010 9:44 pm

Aphelion vs Deadtired is on KGS now.

Aphelion · Post by **Aphelion** » Thu Aug 12, 2010 11:07 pm

Deadtired eliminated me from the winner's bracket in a brutal facetrouncing, and I slink off ignorminiously to the loser's brackets in this game:

B+R

SoDesuNe · Post by **SoDesuNe** » Fri Aug 13, 2010 1:20 am

Niklas73 and I are playing Friday (today) at 11am PST // 9pm UTC+1 DST.

k1ndofblue · Post by **k1ndofblue** » Fri Aug 13, 2010 8:21 am

I contacted Oroth on AUg 3rd and again today about our game for the tourney. So far I have not heard back yet. Hopefully we will get it knocked out this weekend.

freegame · Post by **freegame** » Fri Aug 13, 2010 8:43 am

Lavalamp vs freegame.

freegame + 20.5

Here is game with some analysis I made.

daniel_the_smith · Post by **daniel_the_smith** » Fri Aug 13, 2010 8:46 am

Thanks again, freegame. I thought I posted that you won my post seems to have gotten eaten somehow.

EDIT: also thanks for the review. I did better than I expected to

Nikolas73 · Post by **Nikolas73** » Fri Aug 13, 2010 12:39 pm

After an unfortunate endgame blunder, I won against SoDesuNe in the loser's bracket. Here is the game:

SoDesuNe · Post by **SoDesuNe** » Fri Aug 13, 2010 12:57 pm

Yup, that one hurt badly and still does ^^ Nevertheless, good reading on the other side of the board : D

Kirby · Post by **Kirby** » Fri Aug 13, 2010 6:43 pm

I'll play daal tomorrow (Saturday, August 14) at 9:00am Pacific time.

I guess that's 4pm UTC.

daal · Post by **daal** » Sat Aug 14, 2010 11:07 am

Kirby won. I think I was doing fairly well until about move 81. After that, I kind of caved in, got protective and didn't give Kirby enough of a hard time. Comments welcome.

Kirby · Post by **Kirby** » Sat Aug 14, 2010 11:33 am

Thanks for posting the game, daal. I'm sorry that I had to leave in the middle of the review. Something came up.

Anyway, I would also appreciate feedback on my moves, if people care to review this game. I particularly think that P3 was a bad move by white, however, I'm at a loss for the correct strategy at that point in the game.

I felt that I didn't know what to do at all.

In most games, I feel like there's usually something to do, but around the time I made the P3 move, I really didn't have much direction.

So, I'd particularly appreciate explanation of a plan in that area. Although, any comments are welcome, of course.

By the way, I personally felt comfortable as white around move 68. Was I wrong?

k1ndofblue · Post by **k1ndofblue** » Sat Aug 14, 2010 12:38 pm

Oroth and I will be playing tomorrow at 9am central time or 3pm GMT.

KGS 4 kyu · Post by **fwiffo** » Sat Aug 14, 2010 1:43 pm

Kokomi/Snowcat and I just played our losers bracket game. I was black and won by resignation.

daniel_the_smith · Post by **daniel_the_smith** » Sat Aug 14, 2010 6:50 pm

Kirby wrote:Thanks for posting the game, daal. I'm sorry that I had to leave in the middle of the review. Something came up.

Anyway, I would also appreciate feedback on my moves, if people care to review this game. I particularly think that P3 was a bad move by white, however, I'm at a loss for the correct strategy at that point in the game.

I felt that I didn't know what to do at all.

In most games, I feel like there's usually something to do, but around the time I made the P3 move, I really didn't have much direction.

So, I'd particularly appreciate explanation of a plan in that area. Although, any comments are welcome, of course.

By the way, I personally felt comfortable as white around move 68. Was I wrong?

P3 does look pretty bad. Black has two weak groups, you should build some thickness in the middle while attacking them and then invade deeply. There's some chance one of them will even die. H16 looks like a good way to keep that top group weak. P3 looks jealous. H3 might be possible, but way too early, I think. Not that I'm stronger than you, just some thoughts.

Kirby · Post by **Kirby** » Sat Aug 14, 2010 7:44 pm

daniel_the_smith wrote:
Kirby wrote:Thanks for posting the game, daal. I'm sorry that I had to leave in the middle of the review. Something came up.

Anyway, I would also appreciate feedback on my moves, if people care to review this game. I particularly think that P3 was a bad move by white, however, I'm at a loss for the correct strategy at that point in the game.

I felt that I didn't know what to do at all.

In most games, I feel like there's usually something to do, but around the time I made the P3 move, I really didn't have much direction.

So, I'd particularly appreciate explanation of a plan in that area. Although, any comments are welcome, of course.

By the way, I personally felt comfortable as white around move 68. Was I wrong?

P3 does look pretty bad. Black has two weak groups, you should build some thickness in the middle while attacking them and then invade deeply. There's some chance one of them will even die. H16 looks like a good way to keep that top group weak. P3 looks jealous. H3 might be possible, but way too early, I think. Not that I'm stronger than you, just some thoughts.

Thanks, Daniel. I think that H16 is a good plan. I could get strength by attacking that group, and then switch over to attack the group on the left. I think it's a great strategy. I couldn't really think of anything at this stage in the game. I kept trying to think of a good way to attack the left group directly, but I couldn't think of something that was good. I have a question about that part, but I think I'll open a thread about it to get more discussion.

H3 also seems like a good idea. I didn't even consider it.

The reason I played P3 was that I really wanted to invade at M3, and I was hoping that I could get some aji after his response to it. Playing M3 immediately doesn't seem to work well.

Your choice of wording when you said "jealous" is interesting. I went to a workshop led by Kim Myungwan, and he said that I played in a "jealous" fashion...

I'm not really sure how to fix that, though.

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