Laerthd study journal

[Laerthd]

FWIW, my inclination now would be to play in the bottom left quadrant. I don't like the 3-3 invasion, but maybe the 4th line attachment at G-04, or C-04 or C-06 or C-08, or even the submarine approach at B-05, looking at C-03 or C-08.

Is that a personnal preference or a fairly forced move? I would think that growing the white side is bigger than reducing black side. Especially since black's corner seems even looser than white.

[Bill Spight]

FWIW, my inclination now would be to play in the bottom left quadrant. I don't like the 3-3 invasion, but maybe the 4th line attachment at G-04, or C-04 or C-06 or C-08, or even the submarine approach at B-05, looking at C-03 or C-08.

Is that a personnal preference or a fairly forced move? I would think that growing the white side is bigger than reducing black side. Especially since black's corner seems even looser than white.

If you don't want to play in the bottom left quadrant, maybe double keima is best, but my guesss is the two space jump to F-13 in the top left. FWIW.

In any event, I don't like pushing from behind.

[Laerthd]

Currently at 10 wins - 9 losses at 2k on fox.
I had a quick look at all the games played at 2k so far to try to pick up a pattern to improve. I gound that:

• I tend to leave weak group unattended, sometimes to enclose, sometimes to create another weak group in the opponents region
• I am really bad at making shape in enemy territory
• When ahead, I never often fail to simplify the game until I win. Rather, I keep on fighting and end up losing

So I'll try to work on that this month.

I also picked up some weird sequences where I didn't know how to respond (and some that are not weird but where I am not sure about the following move).

[Laerthd]

Lost a game of yesterday against a 2k.
After analysis with katago, I actually could have won this game twice at moves 42 and 90

[Laerthd]

I finally get around to add a new game here.
Since last time, I got demoted to 3kyu and it took me 37 games to go back to 2kyu!
Here is the promotion game:


I took the time to think and play seriously. I don't have much time with enough mental clarity to play interesting games so the plan is to make every game count.
To compensate for that, I started reading Tesuji by James Davies during the week. I am not done yet but so far I find it quite interesting! for smarter people that I am, it actually gives everything away in chapter 1:

• Have a goal when reading a sequence
  Don't be lazy, read all the oponent response

That being said, the 185 pages following that are a nice addition!