Did you want it to be reviewed before it has ended?
Re: First embed!
Posted: Fri Mar 30, 2012 7:49 pm
by Wanderling
jts wrote:Did you want it reviewed for Black or for White?
Both if possible. I was black and I am happy with my game. My friend was white and feels like he made several important mistakes.
cyclops wrote:Did you want it to be reviewed before it has ended?
Yes, we are through playing. In my estimation, black is favorable.
Re: First embed!
Posted: Fri Mar 30, 2012 9:00 pm
by jts
Well, here are some scattered thoughts. Apologies if the advice is a little superficial.
7: I would pincer instead. Q10 works better as the extension from a wall than as an anchor for Q14, imho.
8: Seems a little odd. Does not aim either at large scale development or at making a base. If W wants to play here, Q18 first seems reasonable.
9: Approaching the upper left corner is usually bigger (first corners, then sides, final center: asymmetric corners before symmetrical corners).
14: Staying high (4th line) keeps the pressure on Black and creates a lot of potential.
16: Seems lukewarm. Not close enough to threaten the lower right corner, not close enough to provide stability to H3.
19: There is a weakness around here, but it seems premature. Make a preparatory move like H5 first; if W ties his group more closely together you improve your shape in sente, if he doesn't that you can strike.
26: First, I prefer K2, which affects the strength of two groups (F3 and H3). Second, if W harasses B's left-side group from the bottom, B can dive in to the upper right corner and stabilize there; if W moves from the other side and blocks off the UR corner, on the other hand, B can only make a relatively boring 1-space extension, which provokes W to defend the LR corner as well (which he would like to do).
46: W can get away with connecting at H2. B must connect on the first line, and then W can still end with F4.
66: C11 is better.D9 will surely be captured.
78: Losing sente here is really hard for W. If W plays B8 instead, B still needs to defend but W then has no need for a defensive followup, and then can get more liberties for E12.
88: Because of O3, this is a dubious invasion. R17, R7, and R12 are all bigger, imho.
95: P2 kills.
99: This is good, but my intuition is that Q18 is bigger, since an invasion there is definitely alive, and after Br7, Wr12 may still be possible.
100: Seems dubious, the last corner is bigger.
102+104: W's two-space jump to O14 suggests to me that W now realizes that the second line wasn't very interesting after all.