Timing...please help

artboy598 · #1

Here is a game where I lost because I let W's center get too big. I kept telling myself 'don't go into the center yet, it'll take some moves before it becomes W territory. Well, I waited too long and I lost.....horribly. It doesn't help that I misread I simple endgame and got my monkey jump disconnected. I would Like some critique on the whole game and When I should Have started to reduce. I believe in this game, I was too focused on territory. I was Black in this game.

artboy598 · #2

Breifly looking at the game after I posted it, I can see that C 13 was an error and I made W stronger than he needed to be in the center Should have been at B14. Maybe D5 instead of B2 to keep him flat and eliminate his ceter prospects. He didn't Have more territory than me, so giving him some points to destroy his center seems fine with me....

serapis · #3

Hey artboy, I think I've seen your name around on kgs so decided to review your game.

Joaz Banbeck · #4

4: This is clearly not a bad move, but it feels a teeny bit slack. You started out with extra stones, and you can make the best use of them early in the game when their difference is proportionately greater. So crowd him and harras him early.
Pincer a bit tighter.

16: Let's stop for a minute and do some tewari analysis. If you could pick up any black stone and move it, would you do so? The two corner stones are in corners, and presumably near 100% efficiency. Most of the lower left is needed to stay alive, and would not be moved. But the R9 stone is clearly misplaced: it is too close to the opponent's Q6/R6 wall. It would do much better at R13, for example.

28: Cut. B12 is too submissive.

42: This feels too loose. I'd play N10 or N11.

48: N14

gotta go...maybe more later

Bill Spight · #5

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artboy598 · #6

Thanks a buck guys! These reviews really helped out a lot.

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