Life In 19x19

Posted: **Sat Sep 01, 2012 8:18 pm**

Posted: **Sun Sep 02, 2012 2:25 am**

Ed:

I had planned the cut. I chickened out thinking that my inside group would just be far too weak.

:b23:

Point very well taken. I was not happy with the result following this move in the game.

:b35:

I was overly concerned with life and this was very gote. My group has access to the centre and one eye if I don't play this move, perhaps I can approach the top right here?

:b38:

(b) seems to be more common. Reduces his moyo better and gives a group with one eye and access to the centre.

:b49:

(b) is far weaker. I hadn't seen this move before and didn't see the threat of the crosscut a few moves on. Inexperience and poor reading on my part.

:b61:

I had read it didn't work but I became transfixed with having aji there. I also thought running with that stone would have been a bad idea.

:b95:

I bottled it.

:b105: Yes, I can just nobi to the first line, his cut doesn't work.

Thank you very much for the review Ed.

Posted: **Sun Sep 02, 2012 4:02 am**

Very welcome.

:b15:

You have to read it out before deciding to push. Also, this is a very common shape. Study it.
:b23:

Another standard exchange (when your D5 stone is pincered). Remember it.
:b35:

First, what's the status of your group?
:b49:

Q14 (the double keima) is a standard shape to fix the R16-R12 three-space jump on the 3rd line.
:b61:

If you'd already read it didn't work, then don't do it. R12 has aji even without :b61:

(which only made it more heavy).
105: I think T17 is not nobi but sagari (descend), but I'm not sure. Also, you have to read not only the R17 cut
but also the R18 extend and Q18 jump.

Posted: **Sun Sep 02, 2012 11:50 am**

Boidhre wrote:Got mauled in an even game tonight in Kaya's ASR league but I learned a nice bit I think. AS you can see my guesstimation method of counting sucks. All I knew was that I was losing by *a lot* and took a stab at around 40. Oh how wrong I was.

Wrong about what?

My opponent made a good point afterwards, I was spending too much time thinking of my own groups and not about his groups. Which I think is quite true in my general play.

The DDK disease.

You used not to play that way. Get over it.

Think about multi-purpose plays and about the local balance of stones, especially early in the game. Playing more than two stones more than your opponent in a local area is almost always wrong early in the game.

Comments:

Posted: **Sun Sep 02, 2012 1:41 pm**

Thank you Bill, very instructive. I meant I was wrong about the score by 30 points. I need to start counting properly.

Posted: **Sun Sep 02, 2012 2:03 pm**

Good day at the club, achieved my goal of beating the local EGF 2k on 9 stones at the second attempt today. Lost two other games. Overall happy with my progress. I was being murdered on 9 stones a month ago.

More interestingly, I got some advice from a KGS 4d to start laying problems out on a board before solving them in my head, he'd gotten the advice from a pro, it slows things down a lot but I think it might help with remembering shape. All I need now is the patience to solve problems this way. So I tried doing this at the club when we were down to 3 people and I had some time to kill. It's very interesting, I think I'm going to start doing it a lot more, I found I was paying far more attention to each stone's position having to lay it out myself rather than solving just in my head. I'm hoping it'll give me a better sense for shape and weaknesses in shape. It's a pity that gochild's problems are usually 11x11 and not suitable for any board I have. But the problems from 1001 L&D, Get Strong at Tesuji and Speed Baduk will all work well with this technique.

Study plan for the week ahead:

Kids are back at school, work at home is quiet so I'll have plenty of time to play games. I'm hoping to get 3 slow games in a day. On top of this I hope to continue with solving tsumego which is more kid friendly because my son will join in.

Posted: **Sun Sep 02, 2012 2:15 pm**

Boidhre wrote:Thank you Bill, very instructive. I meant I was wrong about the score by 30 points. I need to start counting properly.

OIC.

I thought that you meant that you thought that you were behind at around move 40. You were.

Posted: **Sun Sep 02, 2012 2:16 pm**

Bill Spight wrote:
Boidhre wrote:Thank you Bill, very instructive. I meant I was wrong about the score by 30 points. I need to start counting properly.

OIC. I thought that you meant that you thought that you were behind at around move 40. You were.

Yeah it was a losing game. I disrespected my opponent by playing on for practice without asking first. I apologised after the game.

Posted: **Mon Sep 03, 2012 8:10 am**

Game with topazg: I was lost for most of it, playing on instinct rather than having some grand plan which made for a very tough game mentally. Very tight, I'm sure I made a load of mistakes in this game.

Posted: **Mon Sep 03, 2012 8:47 am**

Boidhre wrote:
Bill Spight wrote:
Boidhre wrote:Thank you Bill, very instructive. I meant I was wrong about the score by 30 points. I need to start counting properly.

OIC. I thought that you meant that you thought that you were behind at around move 40. You were.

Yeah it was a losing game. I disrespected my opponent by playing on for practice without asking first. I apologised after the game.

I don't think that you disrespected your opponent by playing on. After all, you were playing even. (You could have resigned at move 1.

)

Posted: **Mon Sep 03, 2012 11:17 am**

Nice game.

Main focus: Make multi-purpose plays.

Posted: **Mon Sep 03, 2012 11:34 am**

No Bill, I haven't been studying just playing games, I really should knuckle down and do some study though. Thank you very much for the review.

Posted: **Mon Sep 03, 2012 5:40 pm**

On oren's suggestion I sat down and memorised a few (30) moves of a pro game. It was a lot of fun. I can see myself memorising the early/early middle part of games more often, I know that actually playing games would probably be better for gaining strength given my level but eh, this is fun!

Posted: **Mon Sep 03, 2012 7:56 pm**

I feel like indulging on some go purchases, nothing major just a little something to celebrate a few nice wins lately. But I'm unsure what to get. I know I probably own far too many books for my level already but I do like to indulge myself a bit now and then with some spending. Should I perhaps buy a few more problem books (since I love problems so much), perhaps buy myself a few lessons as a treat? Or maybe some nicer stones or bowls?

Any thoughts?

Posted: **Mon Sep 03, 2012 11:08 pm**

Boidhre wrote:Or maybe some nicer stones or bowls?

Yes.

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