PatD wrote: After showing a game (which is very similar to the one I attached in this post), the professional pointed to move mistakes, but I did not get any big (excuse the pun) picture assessment of what is wrong with my game. So in essence, the advice I got was to keep doing life and death and play more games.
This sounds very asian to me.
No rules of thumb, principles, heuristics or "why". Just what is wrong and maybe what a better choice is.
And that way of teaching is not limited to go.
