Life In 19x19

Thank you, all, for the suggestions! I've been feeling rather much like I was thrashing around, and it's helpful to have a bit better sense of direction.

Dusk Eagle, thanks for the pointer to SL - I've been looking at that site for a couple of weeks, but even with the "resources for beginners" page ...

I freely confess I am a relative newcomer to Go - that is, I tried to play by intuition and guesswork a few years ago, but am now starting over at actually learning what the heck I'm doing! At this point - having been studying and playing games against my iPad for several weeks (but not yet having ...

Thank you all for taking a look! I'm not sure what happened to the sgf file - maybe I damaged it somehow while trying to add my comments? It looks as though the file on my iPad has the same problem, but I'll see if it's possible to fix and repost it.

Since this is my first post, I guess I should start by introducing myself. I am a very beginning go player - that is, I tried to learn Go mainly by intuition and trial and error a few years ago and quickly became very frustrated. Now, I am starting again, studying more seriously and systematically ...