Life In 19x19

I imagine he gets most of his income from Patreon . It doesn't show directly how much support he gets, but it does say he has 233 supporters. If they are all at the bottom tier of $2.99 then that is about $650/month, but he is 3 goals past the one listed as $1k a month and 77% to the eighth. I don't ...

I explored a bit with Katago. Concerning you wall, your mistake was at move 24. A general principle is to play urgent moves before big moves. You played :b24: at K3, this a big but doesn't threaten anything so is gote. On the other hand, after White played the marked stone, the corner group becomes ...

I'm back! I've been playing off and on while I haven't been posting, and I have somehow managed to attain 7k on OGS. I think that's mostly because I'm higher ranked at correspondence than live, but I'll take it.

However, I just got destroyed by a 5k. A lot of my groups ended up dying, and there ...

Thank you folks, a lot to think about. I honestly completely forgot that kick/pincer moves even existed, Direction of play and whole board thinking are so important!

Again it's been too long. I've played (and lost) a couple tonight. One was a fun close fight that I ended up losing by 22.5. I'll attach it in case anyone is interested and wants to open up the SGF themselves for any comments, but I reviewed it with my opponent and I'm much more curious about the ...

Huh, interesting analysis. I'm surprised W is down to only ~20% winrate after less that 20 moves!

Thanks for the reviews all. Seems like I misevaluated the E3 cut at various points and need to play a little more forcefully.

Another couple of games tonight. The second had aspects of a thing I've noticed happening somewhat often in my games where I just suddenly end up in the midgame with a bunch of influence and no territory and I do a terrible job of converting it all into points. Any tips and a review greatly ...

So after that post, I went on a truly ridiculous losing streak, which must have been well over a dozen losses in a row by the end (counting the tournament). I don't remember how a lot of the games went now, and maybe I'll review them some other time, but I finally broke it on Tuesday and got another ...

Sunday was the Bar Low tournament in London! It didn't go quite as well as I'd hoped; I decided that I'd be pretty happy if I could win half my games, but I ended up with a final record of 0-5. I didn't keep records of the games, but overall I think I struggled most with the time control. 25 minutes ...

- move 13: yes, h17 normal locally, but play lower side fine too. White doesn't need to add a move, so it's not like you need to rush to punish him for being naughty.
- move 15: blocking is slow, you let white get 3-3 in sente; either extend to r9/q10 to help your group, or tenuki and be prepared ...

Last night I went to the club up in Winchester for the first time, and it was great! It was in a very good pub close(ish) to the bus station, and I played a game against one of the members, an 8k, and also the club secretary is going to pass on email addresses for some other players closer to me in ...

Today's game was with 2 stones handicap against a 7k, which I lost after a big group of mine died, and featured numerous other L&D mistakes. I definitely need to get the tsumego habit going again.

Thanks as always for the thoughts, Knotwilg.

My routine's been a bit out of sorts recently, and certainly things like tsumego and playing have fallen by the wayside a little. But I was with some family in a board game café over the weekend and I talked us all into a little informal rengo and taught ...

Here's a game vs another 9k where I spent most of it thinking I'd lost, to be amazed when KGS told me I'd won by 7.5. I've gone through and reviewed it, and there's a nice little L&D puzzle at the end that I think could have been seki if I didn't defend my cut.

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