Life In 19x19

14.9.2013

I actually did some exercises today, first time since I started at university. I solved about 15 tsumegos. My L&D has gotten quite rusty...

I would prefer Q12 to take sente and move to another part of the board.


I was thinking that, but was worrying about black group getting strong too easily. Probably I should have thought about not creating weak white group to prevent that.



O13 looks much better.

I see. That one I didn't ...

sequence 14-28: I can't form a reasoned opinion on this for some reason. Ok I guess?

I thought long before invading here. I was thinking about f17 instead. My teacher has said that given black p8, for example, the black moyo isn't really *huge* yet. But I dislike opponent's moyos, so I just ...

Thanks for both of you! I should be doing school stuff now but I'll discuss the rest of comments later.

Game 1:

is bad shape, it should be at O15. If black escapes to P13, there is a push & cut variation at O16 that is complicated but seems to work.


I thought that I should pick the symmetry ...

Oh... and I have had some good experiences with 4-4 / 5-3 opening as well, no clue if it has a name... but that's mostly because I like 5-3... still play it sometimes.

I play that as white sometimes, if black plays hoshi and komoku so that Chinese fuseki might be played. Komoku instead 5-3 might ...

Well importance of fuseki actually isn't even the topic of this thread.

To go towards reasons of choosing a certain opening, I play different openings in less serious games. Sanrensei and responding keima approach by keima cap, or kosumi towards the center, makes for a good moyo game. Great wall of ...

If people wanted to conduct a valid argument about the merits of Fuseki, maybe they wouldn't start off with a paradox about how beginners aren't strong therefore Fuseki is worthless and continue arguing that they needn't learn Fuseki.

Nobody has said that. You're making straw men all the time ...

I don't take notes about go, since I'll probably never re-read them. I pick up some subject, like endgame, certain opening, handling moyos, shape, and continue with that until I am sure I've made some progress. If you have a special area under study and you're conscious about it when you play, you ...

By chance when you say "they" and "them" do you mean "I" and "me"? As in royal They, what a curious way of thinking. Yes, you could expect that for most amateurs, however you seem caught in this paradox where you are both a rank beginner and weak amateur at the same time, it could be a terminal ...

Two komokus as black, if cross fuseki all the better. No shimari, just approach and pincer if opponent approaches.

I haven't found any comfortable fuseki as white, so I just play Something.

Either way, I find it hard to argue cohesively against someone's desire to study something in depth when they're clearly interested in it and it isn't valueless.

Since the topic of this thread was How do you choose your opening (and why), I answered I choose my opening at random, since I don't ...

Liang could surely make up a 20 pt. loss in the opening of an even game against an amateur shodan, but the question is whether another amateur shodan could do so. Not likely.

It happens, and has happened to me.

It's not hard to lose a game when leading 20 points or even more. One careless move ...

Ok, back up a little.
So, for the purposes of this conversation fuseki is about creating strong groups with two secure eyes?
If this is so, I withdraw anything I have said in this thread... but - is it so?!?

Fuseki, *ain't* about making dead groups now is it?

The life and death of groups ...

The tournament is over, and I had a day off today to rest my brain. I still can't fully understand what happened.

I didn't get enough sleep at night before Saturday. I slept about six hours. Rather sensitive to lack of sleep, I've sworn to never again play tired. I thought about dropping out, but ...

I suspect they're all more or less equal in value as areas of study. The opening is undeniably where the biggest moves are played, but I also suspect it's the area where the potential loss of points for making an error is smallest, hence the need for fighting and reading skill. It's also the stage ...