Life In 19x19

Thanks all!

As a general theme in your games I think you should strive to end up with fewer groups on the board. Quite often you exchange secure territory for influence and then you try to catch up by reducing these frameworks.

That's a good point. Maybe this is because I struggle to play large ...

I've recently hit a plateau and a loosing streak so I was wondering if someone can have a look over a couple of my games and give me an idea of where I'm going wrong. I usually play a few games a day, though I will admit I have a habit of rushing and not using all of my time.

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Thanks bill, I think I understand now. I only have one question. In both of the examples where white plays first there are two outcomes, white keeps sente and the count is unchanged or black is slightly down and gains sente. My question is, if you account for sente in the value of whites last move ...

Thanks bill, I think I understand now. I only have one question. In both of the examples where white plays first there are two outcomes, white keeps sente and the count is unchanged or black is slightly down and gains sente. My question is, if you account for sente in the value of whites last move ...

In both cases (problems R and S) he assumes neither player will respond locally to the initial boundary play with a move that ends in gote.

Yes, that's how I originally took it. But Bill is saying that similarity of treatment masks a slight inaccuracy by O. Which means they should be regarded as ...

Thanks, Bill. When I don't feel comfortable in understanding something, I tend to take refuge in literalness (which does mean trusting the author, of course). Since O stresses "absolute" I automatically reject the fuzziness of "normal" and "circumstances." Despite your kind explanation, my comfort ...

I even saw 高川囲碁読本 第5巻 ヨセと死活 , which was the first book on yose that I studied, and I still like. It is out of print, OC, but apparently you can get it on Amazon. (I wouldn't pay 12,000 yen, though. It's not that good. ;))

Akasiya Shoten lists it as ¥1500. Entry 2633 on http://www.akasiya-shoten ...

Bill Spight wrote:
I doubt if there is anything better than O Meien on theory, or even comparable. Otherwise I would go for endgame tesuji books.

Nice to know! Are there any tesuji books that stand out to you or should I just grab anything I see?

I'm trying to fill out parts of my collection while I'm in japan and I was wondering if anyone had any good books on endgame theory/tsumego they could recommend. I've been doing some googling and came across O Meien's Absolute Counting which seems to cover theory very thoroughly, but I'd love to ...