Critique for one of my first 19x19 games?
Posted: Sun Apr 03, 2016 11:42 am
Firstly, apologies for using a non standard way of showing a game. I have an absolute dinosaur of a PC- Windows 98 with no internet connection and the DVD burner on it gave up long ago. So I did it the old fashioned way and took a film of my computer Go game and uploaded via a friends PC! I think has enough visual clarity to show what is happening.
Currently I use some freeware programs to play Go. They're enough for my level at the moment.
I've been playing the 9x9 version of Go for the past few months to practice, mainly keeping an eye of good eye shapes. I got the courage to do 19 x 19 version recently.
So I picked up some tips from reading most of Go For Beginners by Kaoru Iwamoto. It definitely helped! I don't profess to be much more than a beginner, but I paid attention to opening shimari, keeping groups alive, abandoning obviously lost stones, avoiding false eyes, and there are some ko fights toward the later part.
The game is currently unfinished, but I got so impatient I just wanted some advice!
Any advice on how to conduct the rest of the game would help too!
I started the game as Black....
http://www.filedropper.com/cel70gogame
It's a small file, about 30 MB. I might be playing absolutely terribly, but then, that's a good way to learn. I was pretty useless at chess at first, but after some years of studying chess books and getting a strong player to critique my games, I improved greatly.
Currently I use some freeware programs to play Go. They're enough for my level at the moment.
I've been playing the 9x9 version of Go for the past few months to practice, mainly keeping an eye of good eye shapes. I got the courage to do 19 x 19 version recently.
So I picked up some tips from reading most of Go For Beginners by Kaoru Iwamoto. It definitely helped! I don't profess to be much more than a beginner, but I paid attention to opening shimari, keeping groups alive, abandoning obviously lost stones, avoiding false eyes, and there are some ko fights toward the later part.
The game is currently unfinished, but I got so impatient I just wanted some advice!
Any advice on how to conduct the rest of the game would help too!I started the game as Black....
http://www.filedropper.com/cel70gogame
It's a small file, about 30 MB. I might be playing absolutely terribly, but then, that's a good way to learn. I was pretty useless at chess at first, but after some years of studying chess books and getting a strong player to critique my games, I improved greatly.
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