Close handicap loss. Fighting help?
Posted: Tue Oct 22, 2019 5:02 pm
I appreciated the insightful feedback I got on my other game very much, so I figured I'd ask for more!
My brand new copy of "Lessons in the Fundamentals of Go" by Kageyama 7d arrived in the mail last night, and what I'm hoping is that some of my early study of that text actually shows in this game, haha. My opponent played fast and loose and I struggled to keep to my own rhythm, but I think I still could have won this one had I read out either of the fights we got into in the late game a little better, i.e., not lost so much of my lower side and center, or succeeded in killing the group on the right (where my opponent says "you coulda taken me!!" Coulda I have?
Mostly, I'd like some help (please) with better variations I could have pursued at or around moves 124 and 230, though obviously feedback on the rest of the game would be appreciated also. Avoiding those complicated situations is best, after all.
Something I noticed on my own: My opponent's
is a ladder breaker. They played their corner kick at 
to prepare for it and distract me. I probably should have just captured and then come back later, since I didn't end up making anything of the stones I put there in response anyway.
Something else I'm realizing is that, if your opponent is territorially-minded (like me), forcing them to play for the outside by just diving in can be enough of a psychological shock at these strengths to put them on the back foot and maybe take a win. A lot of times, there's no good way to get back into the corner or the side once someone dives inside like that. I wonder if I should just start playing san-san openings, lol.
My brand new copy of "Lessons in the Fundamentals of Go" by Kageyama 7d arrived in the mail last night, and what I'm hoping is that some of my early study of that text actually shows in this game, haha. My opponent played fast and loose and I struggled to keep to my own rhythm, but I think I still could have won this one had I read out either of the fights we got into in the late game a little better, i.e., not lost so much of my lower side and center, or succeeded in killing the group on the right (where my opponent says "you coulda taken me!!" Coulda I have?
Mostly, I'd like some help (please) with better variations I could have pursued at or around moves 124 and 230, though obviously feedback on the rest of the game would be appreciated also. Avoiding those complicated situations is best, after all.
Something I noticed on my own: My opponent's
is a ladder breaker. They played their corner kick at to prepare for it and distract me. I probably should have just captured and then come back later, since I didn't end up making anything of the stones I put there in response anyway.Something else I'm realizing is that, if your opponent is territorially-minded (like me), forcing them to play for the outside by just diving in can be enough of a psychological shock at these strengths to put them on the back foot and maybe take a win. A lot of times, there's no good way to get back into the corner or the side once someone dives inside like that. I wonder if I should just start playing san-san openings, lol.
B3 big, locally and globally.
, but he missed it. )
D6 can be a candidate: split W; fight.
Needs reading and planning. Did you read the cut at all before you hane'd here? Otherwise R8 extend, unless you're very sure the hane works for you globally.
If W cut, what was your plan, if any?
Big, but not urgent. D18 a candidate.
What if you cut at R10?
Not good.
P11. (Why squeeze W between your groups?)
Did you see S11 is atari?