Life In 19x19

Harleqin wrote: This move is not passive at all. It not only captures the two stones, it also connects the two black groups. Black becomes very strong because of that. Just imagine the situation when White plays there: the black heavy group would be split off and weak.

Do not worry about overconcentration too much. First come strength and weakness, which are closely related to connecting and cutting.

Thanks for the comments!

Monday

Another step forward, played a H4 game with Shaddy. And he kindly reivewed it after the game.

I feel myself still weak in recognizing the difference between a strong shape and a heavy group. I kosumied and peepped his stones to make them 4 in a row, which i felt heavy, but in fact I hurted my own stones. Also I need to learn how to leave aji in my opponent's group. Another thing is to balance the time, i spent too much time in the opening reading, while in the mid game, when stones and groups twisted together I seems lost my patient in reading at all. In this way, I need to do more life and death problems. But looking from last week's record, I did none!



Tsumego 0
Tesuji 0
Books Yi Chang-ho Endgame Techniques
Games 1
Pro game study 0

Saturday

Finally played a game, a L19 tournament game. I made a mistake at the begining, because i'm not confidence on my reading. And then, he made a mistake on joseki, also when i invaded 3.3, he made a group of mine, which was alive-on-ko, unconditional alive. And he made himself gote. I think I'm ahead from that time.

But as usual, my mid game is terrible. End game is even worse. I cannot find anywhere sente for me. So i need to read harder the Endgame Technique

Tsumego 0
Tesuji 0
Books Yi Changho Endgame Technique
Games 1
Pro game study 0

Monday

Study two pro games. Still no game. I might drop from Gamma class if I don't play the ASR League game


Tsumego..................0
Tesuji.......................0
Books.......................Tesuji Dictionary
Games......................0
Pro game study........Super Meijin Lee changho vs Gu li
......................................& Iyama Yuta vs Gu li

Wednesday

Played a lot of game today, and lost all of them. I did not know how i simply missed such an important atari. And I get very nervous when my opponent plays slow. Also why I like to play bot, they keep on moving in a same pace. I did not review it later though, as I played too bad. Sad, but at least I start to play.

Tsumego..................0
Tesuji.......................0
Books.......................none
Games......................4
Pro game study........Super Meijin Lee changho vs Gu li (Final)

Good luck breaking your losing streak, I know they`re always painful. Hopefully you're just absorbing a new concept into your play, and when your losing streak ends, you will have a great winning streak.

I don't personally like playing bots like gnugo, btw - I could win reasonably reliably at 4 stones last I tried, but I don't feel its play correlates well to real go players.


Anyway, work hard and catch up to me on 3 kyu ! Though I will have to make 2 kyu in record time to not fall too far behind Sodes and redundant...

Man, it takes all the running you can do just to stay in the same place.

Again, Good luck

Thursday

Played one game today. Kind of fast and bloody game, against a 7k. Sometime maybe it's good to play weaker. I don't know how 2 stones gives so much difference, that I can play aggressive move that I cannot read until the end and usually won't play. Good practice. 2 days to go in the ASR League. I think there won't be a good chance that I'll get promoted.

And I'll pick ONE book to do tsumego. Maybe 1000?



Tsumego..................0
Tesuji.......................0
Books.......................None
Games......................1
Pro game study........None

Loons wrote:Good luck breaking your losing streak, I know they`re always painful. Hopefully you're just absorbing a new concept into your play, and when your losing streak ends, you will have a great winning streak.

I don't personally like playing bots like gnugo, btw - I could win reasonably reliably at 4 stones last I tried, but I don't feel its play correlates well to real go players.


Anyway, work hard and catch up to me on 3 kyu ! Though I will have to make 2 kyu in record time to not fall too far behind Sodes and redundant...

Man, it takes all the running you can do just to stay in the same place.

Again, Good luck

Thanks Loons!

Saturday

I failed to get promoted in the ASR League, but i did have difficulty to find a game at the end of the month. The whole league thing is like...others beg me for games in the first 2 weeks and i beg others for games in the last 2 weeks.

About the Tesuji I learnt today: Cut. There's a problem in real game, that i do not dare to cut often as i can not see clearly what happens after cut, counting liberties etc... But I think I should apply the provb "Cut first, Cut later"...

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New month, let's one step forward: set up a little goal.

I'd like to finish that Yi Chang ho's yose book 1. And also the 1000 problems. Get promoted in the league, 22 players in a class does sound scary


And also considering the fact that i resign very easily, i make a rule for this month: NO RESIGNATION UNTIL THE LAST DAMI IS FILLED

Tsumego..................0
Tesuji.......................Tesuji of cut
Books.......................Tesuji dictionary
Games......................0
Pro game study........Reviewed the first super-M game

Wednesday

It's getting better now. I'm starting to play games, slowly and seriously. Now I feel like being back to ddk, where I tried to read every move.

At the beginning of the first game, I was a bit unease. Having been playing too many blitz games, I found myself lost in searching for the right move. And the mistake in the begining of the game give me an impulse to resign again. I stopped and spoke one or two words with oren in the L19 room, and after feel less pressure I went back in reading. My second game is a simul. My opponent played 8 players at the same time. And I am the last one to finish the game. Because it's a simul, i have more time to read and play the game on my pace, which delighted me. My opponent wasn't too happy at the end when my game was the only one left and i still used 3 minutes for one move. I did not have the two games fully reviewed, but I had my main questions answered.

And as the frequent updates of the journal may cause issues to some players on the forum, I'll modefy it to a weekly basis by editing the last post in the week.


Tsumego..................0
Tesuji.......................0
Books.......................None
Games......................2
Pro game study........None

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I'm not that much stronger than you, but i tried to review your game none the less.

I only looked at the first half of the game (move 92 has my last comment), but found quite a number of moves which i think are wrong.

SGF with my comments and some variations (ideas where i may have played)

Thanks, MagicMagor

It's been a while I havn't update my Journal. In fact, I did not do much about Go, and I think my strength goes down a bit.
I start a Malkovich game here. And hopefully I can get some strength from that game.