Good game to you
Please, could you give me a number between 1 and 100 ?Hi, I'm Tryphon and this is my first Malkovich game. I reached KGS 9k but last year was kind of busy for me (my first child was born on September, and my wife's pregnancy was difficult) and I almost didn't play a real-time game since last summer. I play now mostly on OGS.
I like :
- influence
- stones working well together
- attacking
- strange openings
I dislike (and I'm very weak at) :
- endgame
- counting (likely my worst weakpoint)
- complicate sequences (to be true, I like that, but the lack of play these days weakened my play mostly on this aspect)
- josekis
I'll try to explain my thinking the most I can, asking questions when they arise, and I hope receiving answers and hints to improve.
I will only describe in my comments moves that I saw before posting, and not playing sequences of tenth of moves that I couldn't figure without a goban.
I won't use joseki dictionnary.
And now, for something completely different, my first move. I hesitate between playing a common or a weird game. That's why I ask MHO to choose for me.
If the unit digit of the number he'll choose is 0-4, I'll play A (my most common answer), 5-6 : I'll play B (offer a diagonal fuseki, I don't like much), 7 : I'll play C (a move I don't like at all, but that'll force me to think territorially), 8 : D and 9 : E (I love particularly this last, usually followed by another 8-8, but generally I play it with B, and it works rarely well with a turn based game)
I like :
- influence
- stones working well together
- attacking
- strange openings
I dislike (and I'm very weak at) :
- endgame
- counting (likely my worst weakpoint)
- complicate sequences (to be true, I like that, but the lack of play these days weakened my play mostly on this aspect)
- josekis
I'll try to explain my thinking the most I can, asking questions when they arise, and I hope receiving answers and hints to improve.
I will only describe in my comments moves that I saw before posting, and not playing sequences of tenth of moves that I couldn't figure without a goban.
I won't use joseki dictionnary.
And now, for something completely different, my first move. I hesitate between playing a common or a weird game. That's why I ask MHO to choose for me.
If the unit digit of the number he'll choose is 0-4, I'll play A (my most common answer), 5-6 : I'll play B (offer a diagonal fuseki, I don't like much), 7 : I'll play C (a move I don't like at all, but that'll force me to think territorially), 8 : D and 9 : E (I love particularly this last, usually followed by another 8-8, but generally I play it with B, and it works rarely well with a turn based game)
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I'm looking forward to feedbacks by stronger players than me
gives a inferior local result and is only played when the resulting wall would benefit white too much 
is already on the board so black approaches far and lets white have the corner. Above is the normal joseki in this position and so I would classify blacks play in the game as too timid.
should be at 
which it cannot be. 
exchange:
(a) is the most common pro move here: