Life In 19x19

Posted: **Sat Nov 17, 2018 8:03 pm**

D15 was the winning move for white at end game. Idk why I thought I already took that... just being dumb.

Any comment on gameplay would be appreciated!

Posted: **Sun Nov 18, 2018 7:21 am**

In the last corner, your choice of a pincer was very good. But then you let him establish himself too easily by provoking a sharp fight with R4. You played joseki, but it was a joseki that dissipated your advantage there.

When you have the advantage on a large scale like that, you want to keep up the pressure, never engaging in small fights, but rather making the fights large so that your neighboring stones ( here circled ) can be brought to bear.

Something like the move below keeps the pressure on.

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Posted: **Sun Nov 18, 2018 7:57 pm**

In response to

, I want to try

. Black's two stones in the upper right are strong. Black does not need to respond there.

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Especially with the low stone in the lower right, Black should play high in the lower left at

below. If White invades,

and

are standard plays the effortlessly start erasing White's center influence.

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Look at how open the lower right is and then play

below. If White plays

and

, jump to

. Do not regret giving up the lower left, if you can get the lower right.

Click Here To Show Diagram Code: [go]$$Bcm1 $$ --------------------------------------- $$ | . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | $$ | . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | $$ | . . X X X X . . . . . . . . O . . . . | $$ | . X O O X O X . O , . . . . . , X . . | $$ | . X . . O O X . . . . . . O . X . . . | $$ | . . X O . . O O . . . . . . X . . . . | $$ | . . O . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | $$ | . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | $$ | . . . O . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | $$ | . . . , . . . . . , . . . . . , . . . | $$ | . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | $$ | . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | $$ | . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | $$ | . . O . . . . . 5 . . . . . . 9 . . . | $$ | . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | $$ | . . . O . O 4 O 1 , . . . . . , . . . | $$ | . . O . 8 X 2 X X . . . . . . X . . . | $$ | . . . X . 6 3 . . . . . . . . . . . . | $$ | . . . . . 7 . . . . . . . . . . . . . | $$ ---------------------------------------[/go]

Posted: **Sun Nov 18, 2018 8:41 pm**

Thank you both for the review. I found that I'm very bad at moyo games even against people my own level, but this gives me some great insight.

Life In 19x19

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