Life In 19x19

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Maybe trying to kill was overplay and I should had attacked to profit elsewhere.

>Read the chapters about Ko of the book Tesuji and did all of the problems, some were very hard.

>Spent quite some time playing even games against a 1 dan bot, testing fuseki ideas, trying different shapes to see where it would attack me and expose my weakness and how he would profit from it. I ...

@move 50, Black to play and kill the top right corner.

Damn it, I missed that one. So much tsumego to then miss such basic stuff in actual games. I really need to improve my concentration. My opponents often play kind of blitz even in 30 minutes games and I feel like I get dragged into their ...

Today is my day off from work, so I'm going to dedicate the entire day to the study of go. My plan is to keep on reading and doing the problems of Tesuji, and also play a few serious slow games on KGS while actually pausing to think on every move, without making obvious blunders due to lack of ...

>Played against a 6k today. He gave me 3 stones. I've lost the game by 17 points. I had a huge lead throughout the whole game but made a
stupid mistake at move 135. I won't make excuses saying that I could had easily won, that I feel underranked, bla bla. Victory or defeat is the sole factor that ...

BTW, you will note that I linked tsumego and yose together.

Yes, that's where I want to improve at the most, pure reading ability basically. Right now, especially for complicated positions I feel that after a bunch of moves I just lose track of the stones and liberties and it gets all blurry. I ...

Why don't you recommend tsumego? Also, I think the playing stronger players advice is solid, and I try to follow it whenever possible. But sometimes it's hard to get them to play me. Maybe I could try reverse sandbagging? Haha. Thanks for the reply


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What does every strong player tell weaker players to do in order to improve? Do tsumego.

I'm KGS 9k

You must study much more than only tsumego. E.g., at your level, you must also learn to keep things simple. E.g., if you maintain connection, your group simply is alive and you need not solve ...

Hi everyone, I've been reading this forum for a while, but I've just made an account today, so please allow me to introduce myself.

I'm 20, and I have been playing go for 3 years on and off, (mostly off). Sadly I never really had time to dedicate to go as much as I'd like because of school and work ...