Life In 19x19

Improving at Go seems to be mostly a matter of getting better at spotting and exploiting
the opponent's mistakes, certainly down in the SDK boondocks.

Here are my other two games from the 2013 Northern Tournament. I won with black in both games.
Comments on Black's moves 39 and 41 in the first game are particularly invited.

thirdfogie wrote:Improving at Go seems to be mostly a matter of getting better at spotting and exploiting
the opponent's mistakes, certainly down in the SDK boondocks.

Here are my other two games from the 2013 Northern Tournament. I won with black in both games.
Comments on Black's moves 39 and 41 in the first game are particularly invited.

should probably be the turn at N-08. Even if it carried no tactical threat, it would be a big move.

For I like the capping play at P-11. It is consistent with the one space jump.

Note the similarity between the two plays. Center facing turns are bigger than they look.

EdLee wrote:

looks better as an underneath hane.

Some ideas including

And some ideas on the second game.

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Thanks, Bill.

Thanks for all the comments.

I do have answers for UnusedName's embedded questions, but I'll treat
them as rhetorical. (About half the answers would have been
"I made a mistake".)

thirdfogie wrote:Thanks for all the comments.

I do have answers for UnusedName's embedded questions, but I'll treat
them as rhetorical. (About half the answers would have been
"I made a mistake".)

Well not necessarily that you made a mistake haha.
We are about the same rank so maybe you just saw something that I can't see.