Life In 19x19

Posted: **Tue Jan 26, 2016 8:06 pm**

Just started on OGS. I might have been a little stronger than I signed up as, because I my first game I only lost because I misread a life and death, second on time, and this one I won. So yeah. Endgame is probs pretty bad, but I haven't really worked on it and I was winning at that point anyways.

Thanks for the reviews, homies!

http://eidogo.com/#BG5pn8oz

*EDIT: Okay, so the embedded sgf is just saying it's receiving invalid game data. So here's a link instead.

Posted: **Tue Jan 26, 2016 8:44 pm**

You should probably sober up before posting!

Posted: **Tue Jan 26, 2016 8:47 pm**

Ah, if only I were allowed! Being under 21 is lovely

Posted: **Tue Jan 26, 2016 9:33 pm**

Hi Cynosure, Please take a moment to learn to embed an SGF:

(;GM[1]FF[4]CA[UTF-8]AP[CGoban:3]ST[2]RU[Japanese]SZ[19]KM[6.50]PW[sergvalex]PB[nubeasyplay]WR[12k]BR[12k]DT[2016-01-26]CP[online-go.com]PC[OGS: http://online-go.com/game/3786130]RE[B+23.50];B[pd];W[dq](;B[cd]C[I prefer orthodox, but didn't want to risk white approaching anyways. I dislike that. Variation.];W[qp];B[do]C[Prevents white shimari, thought it worked well with possible future shimari in my upper left.];W[dp]C[Never seen this move before. From post-game review and study, it looks like he's saying he want the corner at any cost.
Any thoughts on how to respond?];B[co]C[Probably wrong direction.];W[cp];B[eo];W[cn]C[At this point, I said whatever. The black stones likely aren't going to die, so I took my top corner.];B[ec];W[bo]C[White uses another move. Let him take the corner if he wants it so bad, I'll take another big move.];B[op];W[pp]C[Again. Don't know why white is so fond of this.];B[oo];W[oq];B[nq];W[pq];B[mp]C[Protect my cutting point. Any better way to do this? I was thinking maybe M4. I disliked having to rely on a working ladder, though.];W[kq];B[ip]C[Help E5 group and attack L3 stone. My biggest "worry" was if white jumped out. Probably G5 or such. O2 group seemed maneuverable enough.];W[iq];B[gp]C[Help E3 group];W[gq]C[Thought this strange by white. Here I considered L4, but decided I wanted to establish solid safety for E3.];B[fp];W[fq];B[jq];W[jr];B[hq];W[jp];B[hr]C[Besides this sequence I considered just building a wall, but it didn't seem incredibly helpful. 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