I don't know how long this will continue. Do I even know how to play go?

I can't bear to watch.

OC, I will. It's like watching a train wreck. Whose train it will be, I don't know.

Well, I feel kind of like a loser, but as Magicwand pointed out in another thread, the point is for me to keep trying to improve. So I have lost before, and played some silly handicaps, but that is in the past. I will continue to try to improve.

Let's see if I can play better this game.

A tight pincer makes sense to me here. If black does the 3-3, I will get influence. If he jumps out again, the result should still be good for me.

On one hand, I feel like it is a lose lose situation. If I win the game, it's because I had a handicap. If I lose, well... I lose.

But as Magicwand pointed out, the point is for me to try to improve. So in either case, if I can accomplish this, I don't really lose, but I win.

No choice.

You have posted 5 times. In every post, you have displayed a resigned, negative, beaten attitude. I have sympathy for this, considering that this game comes so close on the heels of the last one, but contrast this with your early postings in game 3 in which you displayed an over-confident attitude while making small plays. It really looks to me from the outside as if your emotional responses are a bad influence. Surely situations arise in a game which cause emotional reactions, but what I'm seeing is that you are allowing your emotional backdrop to set the stage. This is not a good plan. The attitude I would suggest is this: Look at the board, find the spot that simultaneously helps you the most and bothers your opponent the most, whack down your stone and say: "chew on that!"

I think Kirby should stop playing and take a breather. The quality of his games has been absolutely crumbling since the first and the last one especially was very poor; e.g: the sequence in the center for life was something I would see in a 10k game. I get the feeling people are not here to learn or contribute much to analysis (except for Bill), but to simply watch with sympathy how Kirby handles a situation here or there as Magicwand plays the menacing bully.

To add contribution to this post, I'm a bit saddened that the only thing Kirby wrote for the last move was "No choice" because there is more to that move than what meets the eye. Kirby had the perfect opportunity there to discuss the difference between Q6 and R6 for instance. Or answer why the move of R7, which is typically seen as a direct response to the approach, is not appropriate here. Or answer why, when White has support in the R10/R9 area, pros consider the somewhat strange move of Q2. There was so much he could have talked about, and he certainly did have a choice.

You are right, daal. It is difficult for me to be totally oblivious to my emotions, but I will try to have a more positive attitude. I will also try to play a game without mistakes.

You are stronger than me, but fearing mistakes seems to be worse than making them, especially against the style of magicwand. Magicwand also makes a lot of mistakes, the main reason why you fail to punish them is because you try to play mistake-free yourself.

Well, that's just my opinion and I am a couple of stones weaker than you... Just for you to consider.