Life In 19x19

Thanks tentano! Gone over all of your comments and saved them into a sgf file. I found them extremely useful :)

I attempted to translate your advice to an equal game I played this morning but my opponent resigned too early for me to reliably tell if I did it correctly or or not. Will try another ...

Here is some things I think that I could/should have done in game.

Would love some feedback on my general play (am I too slow? Too passive? Too defensive?) If anyone has time of course :)

Considering that I need to start reading a book or something as just playing isn't going amazing. Heard many ...

Hello everyone! Here is a game I played yesterday where I take black.

Now I know that I lost this game pretty badly even with a handicap, however I also found it extremely enjoyable. Most fun I had in a while in fact. I was trying to play different from my normal style, I was trying to be more ...

Thanks skydyr! Sorry about the late reply, I have lots on my plate at the moment and little time to handle it.

I'll run through your comments and suggestions tonight as my training

Hello again everyone! Here is another game that I lost from the other day. I played black in this one. Clocc was a lovely opponent and very friendly :)

I have pointed out some various moves that I think I should have made, but maybe if someone could tell me better moves that I should have played ...

Hi tentano. Thanks for the feedback, though in the game above I am actually black (mayonnaise) ^^ However I still find moves that my opponent could/should have made just as useful as moves I could/should have made (I try to do this when reviewing games that I played so that I can find any weakness I ...

Thanks tentano! I'll just leave it the way it is then. It's a bit of a strange system :D

Thanks =D Will keep on playing emeraldemon. My main goal for now is just to learn to spot silly moves, hopefully during the game but at the very least afterwards while reviewing.

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Today I managed to get in three games in (while I should have been working haha). Unfortunately they were all [?] ranked opponents, which after playing them seems like it means that they are new players? I won all three though I do not feel like I learned anything apart from playing against a ...

Thanks for the replies! Sorry for replying so late.

Thanks skydyr! I certainly will practise reading at least ahead three moves. I'll try read ahead and keep any groups as strong as I can.

emeraldemon, after looking at the game again, I think the correct response to 149 is:

$$Wcm149 How should ...

In general you learn more from reviewing your losses. I don't have much interest in commenting on you beating an easy AI :)

I agree fully with that :salute:

Tonight or tomorrow I will play until I lose (probably first game hehe), and put it up here. I think I shall remove this first game posted ...

Edit: I will be posting a game tonight or tomorrow, just for the sake of having a starting point on here so that I may see any progress (hopefully progress anyway).

2nd edit:

Here we go, one lost game as ordered! :) I think I was a little too aggressive and played too many contact stones. I was ...

Hello everyone! Nice to meet you :) New here to the forums (though I did register a little over a year ago), and thought that having my very own thread on Go would help me focus better (a persistent problem which needs to be vanquished!) and maybe even a few words from the community to point me in ...