Life In 19x19

Posted: **Mon Jan 30, 2012 7:58 am**

This is the first game I play with real player on KGS, before I just play in computer with Many Faces of Go. It seems to have a lot of capture. Please review it for me and critique the way I play.

I am White

Thank you very much.

Posted: **Mon Jan 30, 2012 8:12 am**

Congrats on winning! A reading point:

52 onward: you need to play F1 or F2, to capture the big string of black stones. As is black can play H1 and make it into a seki (you can't capture).

101: you got lucky, if b played k2 instead you couldn't have made this capture.

Posted: **Mon Jan 30, 2012 8:44 am**

A few ideas

Posted: **Mon Jan 30, 2012 9:45 am**

i would add that you could play sansan invasion in the lower right corner, let say at move 134. it is a really basic sequence and in tight spaces, like the lower right quarter at that time, sansan has often the best chances of creating a living group. analogically, black could try the 3-3 point in the upper left corner, anytime before move ~ 172

and learn to take a time and consider whether your weak group can actually be saved - if you sacrifice an inevitably dead group in time, you can greatly cut your loses. if you struggle blindly to save it and fail, you usually cause another collateral damage aside from your group dying. see again the lower right and upper left as examples - in process of trying to bring O5 resp. D9 to life you both destroyed potential of perfectly safe invasions at the 3-3 points. plus, once abandoned stones remain at the board and you can play from your living stones to threaten to connect and resurrect them, opponent will try to prevent you from doing so and you can get some free moves and profit

just take it as an inspiration, i don't think that <20k players really need any lectures. you need to learn how to read moves in advance and some basic tactics... play and observe what's going on and you will naturally improve, with or without our wise advice

Posted: **Mon Jan 30, 2012 1:24 pm**

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, these are the moves I would have thought about. Breaking up or splitting the right is big. Corner enclosures are big.

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Posted: **Thu Feb 02, 2012 5:20 pm**

Instead of passing, I would have punished him for not connecting at P4. ( Because I wouldn't know that I was so much ahead!)
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