Why do you think that a territorial style is more aggressive than an influence style?

Besides which, why worry about your own style? Just make what you think is the best play.

Great advice - I think what I should have said was I am worried that I might become too influence oriented, and i am not getting the basics on how to invade, attack and reduce properly. I want to become a more balanced player

I realize I am starting to become a more influence-oriented player, and for some reason i am not a fan of this. I would rather like to play a more territorial, aggressive game.

Didn't get to play a game today but I finished my first runthrough of Get Strong with Tesuji at 68.7% accuracy. I plan on running through the problems i missed to nail them on to perfection. These seem like a good way to get concepts of sente, etc.


But i gotta say these were a bit of a chore to go through - it wasn't as great as many people on Life19x19 hyped it up to be.

Well, people like different books. I for one don't get the hype about Lessons in the Fundamentals of Go.

I really like Get Strong at Tesuji because it fills a gap when it comes to shape problems and problems to get Sente - kinda real life problems. It is much more subtle than your common connect/capture/kill-Tesuji book. And it has a whooping 534 problems, which are very fast to go through =)

I didn't look at the game in detail, just pointing out a few details.

@12, approaching at f3 is the wrong direction. Black should deny white the extension from his wall, ruining his future prospects and taking a very nice lead in the fuseki. That joseki is for when white already has an extension near the start point on the left side.

@16, playing at the suggested place of 2 is bad for black, even just jumping out is better. The kosumi is the right kind of idea, except you might want to attach on top of the white stone.

@24 Backing off with the small knights move is probably better. since black's stones on the right side are low his prospects for developing a moyo with the influence is kinda low. Black is also playing more territorially and the knights move both takes territory and reduces the potential of white's upper left side wall.

@37 D8 is bad. You are helping white build another wall. Two huge walls facing eachother is a very good territorial moyo. It would be much better if you pincered at C11.

@52 your idea is better than the suggested move of simply solidifying. It is unambitious and weak spirited to do that. Black should expand his influence and force white to invade. If u want to continue here maybe play a knights move instead of the slow push. I might descend in the upper right to threaten white's corner, then extend as far as possible to the left. That also increases the moyo and strengthens the upper right group. You don't actually need to play where u did in the game. Imagine if white pushes there, he will force you to enclose a huge territory on the right side which would be very nice

@56 You don't need to kill this invasion. You can use it to get benefits at the bottom and at the left side if u want. A simple move is to cap it at M9. Try to force weak stones against your strong position/wall. Your move in the game 012 is almost redundant. It makes an absolutely tiny amount of points and doesn't attack white properly. It's the opposite direction of what you need to do.

That's all for now

Thanks for the review! is 12 really the wrong side approach? Ive heard people say to stay away from opponents strengths when approaching a corner. can you also explain why 16 is bad as suggested? Hikky's explanation made quite alot of sense to me.