Yes, indeed, have fun DIV - this is certainly a first time for me, and I think it is for you too; let's hope we can both learn something from it
As this is my first time, and I've not really posted on this board before, so no-one will know me, just a few words about myself by way of introduction, and how I intend to do this. I started playing only a few months ago - I'm quite interested in the game, and spend quite a bit of time reading about the game on the internet ( on sites like this one
), but I'm still pretty new to the game and know I have a lot to learn. I've slowly got myself up to 12k on KGS, and hope to get to SDK by the end of the year, but we'll see...As far as this game is concerned, I'll try to make at least one move a day - most days I'd like to make more, but I think my opponent and I are in fairly mutually incompatible timezones, so that might not be possible very often. There might be the occasional day where I'm busy and won't get to move, but I'll try to mention those in advance.
I'm going to try to put down most of the thoughts I have had for each move - hopefully this won't lead to masses of boring text and diagrams, but if it does then members of the audience should feel free to point it out. While I realise that a game between two DDKs probably isn't very interesting for most of the audience, I'm hoping we pick up a few comments, as I think this is a great format for improving one's game - not only can individual moves get criticised, but also the thought processes behind them. To members of the audience: feel free to criticise my moves all you want; I know what I'm letting myself in for, and am hopefully big enough to take it
(Needless to say, I won't read anything within a "hide" tag till the game is over, unless specifically told that I can.)Enough waffle, time for my move:
, but probably "b" as it makes a more standard shape with the lower right corner enclosure. Either way, I'd play instead as the following for White:
is at 
, in which case Black plays 
at 
... hahaha.
here is much bigger than the top right. The following is probably would I'd have played as Black, but maybe K16 as an alternative. Either way, I'd want to develop the top in a way that keeps the high/low relationship going.