I just played a weird game on KGS. The challenger had no rank and changed the game offer to "free", and I said why the hell not. What ensued is a very interesting game.
At first I thought I was playing against a complete newbie, sporting one of the weirdest fuseki I've seen. Then I got immmediately wrecked. I must say I think I played well (didn't lose any groups) but I was constantly under siege and had to work hard to simply live.
I asked him often how srong he was, but he didn't answer. After the game he proposed to play again, and I agreed, but at the second game I lost focus and resigned after getting two big groups killed.
Anyway, I'm intrigued by this player. His style is strange. Agressive, unorthodox... Yet he was clearly much stronger than me. But how much? My estimate rounds 1-2 kyu (me being 6) but I'd like to hear what you guys think... Thanks.
Oh, and I'd LOVE to get the game reviewed too, as in... Things I should've done.
I play black
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at N3 or possibly even M3. This combination of extension-pincer would make it harder for the W stone at K4 to make a base, and it would also secure more corner territory, if W invaded as in the game.
is the right idea, but the wrong point. Holding back to M3 would be better (after taking the free atari at R2). The exchange of contact plays in the game actually helped W settle his weak stone.
was perhaps an overplay (hane and connect underneath would be usual), but once you have played it, you are committed to saving the cutting stone. So at move 35 you must extend to K6 and fight. This fight would be quite playable for B, while giving W a ponnuki here is hopeless. In the game result, B has clearly been outplayed -- W has superior territory and useful thickness, while B is over-concentrated and his thickness has no target to attack. I am sure W knew he had a won game by this point.
is a slow move which gives W too much; you must hane at C2 to contest the corner territory and try to secure a base.