Kirby's Study Journal

Kirby · Post by **Kirby** » Thu Jun 06, 2013 10:53 pm

I guess I'll do one of these... I don't have a lot of time these days, so mostly I've just been playing games now and then. I'm a little rusty.

Feel free to leave feedback.

Kirby · Post by **Kirby** » Thu Jun 06, 2013 11:09 pm

I won this game. But I didn't read out what would happen, and just played without caring much about whether I lived or died. Probably a bad attitude:

Kirby · Post by **Kirby** » Thu Jun 06, 2013 11:23 pm

I lost this game.

Kirby · Post by **Kirby** » Thu Jun 06, 2013 11:39 pm

I won this game.

Kirby · Post by **Kirby** » Fri Jun 07, 2013 10:13 pm

I won this game.

LuckyJim · Post by **LuckyJim** » Sat Jun 08, 2013 4:17 am

I like these commented games a lot. To view them i use the Download SGF link in the webpageviewer, but for the last game it sends back Request-URI Too Large.

Kirby · Post by **Kirby** » Sat Jun 08, 2013 8:28 pm

LuckyJim wrote:I like these commented games a lot. To view them i use the Download SGF link in the webpageviewer, but for the last game it sends back Request-URI Too Large.

Thanks for the comment, LuckyJim. Now that I know someone is reading my games, maybe I'll be motivated to keep playing on a regular basis

I also get the same error that you describe. As a workaround for now, you can copy the text hidden below, paste it into a text file, and name the file with an SGF extension:

Kirby · Post by **Kirby** » Sat Jun 08, 2013 9:34 pm

I lost this game.

Kirby · Post by **Kirby** » Sun Jun 09, 2013 9:11 pm

I lost this game.

Kirby · Post by **Kirby** » Sun Jun 09, 2013 9:17 pm

FYI to anyone paying attention to these posts:

The comments I leave in the games are, for the most part, a reproduction of what I remember to be my thoughts at that particular time in the game.

Typically I do the following:
1.) Play the game.
2.) Get the SGF.
3.) Change the names of the players in case anyone of my opponents would care about me posting the game.
4.) Remove any in-game comments, and add what I remember thinking at that time.
5.) Post the game here.

This time, I also added some comments prefixed with "Post-game thinking", which means that this was not a thought I remember having during the game, but it's a thought that I have now that the game is over.

ez4u · Post by **ez4u** » Sun Jun 09, 2013 10:59 pm

Kirby wrote:I lost this game.

... And then... I run out of time. Doh!

(**Post-game thinking: I don't see a way to live here. There may be one, but even if there were, it's really a fluke. I left this group too weak, and I was too focused on capturing H14 to even notice at all that he was cutting off my breathing of the C2 group. I didn't think globally, and was intent only on capturing those stones up there. That was a big mistake.

Though I lost on time, even if there was a way to make life here, I don't deserve it because of having missed this global strategy.**)

I think you have unrealistic expectations for what you can read/notice in a 10-second game. Watch the 9d's, they lose track of the big picture all the time in blitz. Pros do too. But as for life in this game...

Click Here To Show Diagram Code: [go]$$Bc Life in the Final Position; 5 connects $$ --------------------------------------- $$ | . . O O . O . . . . . . . . . . . . . | $$ | . O . O . O X . . . . . . O X . . . . | $$ | . O O X O O X X X X . O . X X . . . . | $$ | . X O X X X O O O X . . . O . X . X . | $$ | . X X X O . X . . X O O . . . X X O . | $$ | . . . X O . O O O O X O . . O X O O . | $$ | . X X . X X X X X X X . . O . O X X . | $$ | . X O O . . O X O . X . . . O . . . . | $$ | . O X O O O O O a . . . . X X O O O . | $$ | . O X 0 X X X O 9 b . O O O O X X X . | $$ | . O X O O X . X X 8 . X . X O X O . . | $$ | . O X O X X O 6 2 7 c . O O X . X . . | $$ | . . . O . . O O X 4 O . . X . X . . . | $$ | . O O . X X O X 1 O X . . . O . . . . | $$ | O . O . 3 O X X O O X O O . O X X X . | $$ | . O X X X X O O . O O X X . X O O O . | $$ | . X . X O X X O O X X X . . X O . . . | $$ | X O X O O O O O X . . X X X O O . . . | $$ | . O X . O . . . . X X . . O . . . . . | $$ ---------------------------------------[/go]

The gap at

prevents White for cutting you off. Black connects at "a" next and reduces the center at the same time. Black is still in the game. If White "a" instead of 10, Black plays atari at "b", White has to capture at "c" and Black connects at 10, capturing White's center stones.

ez4u · Post by **ez4u** » Sun Jun 09, 2013 11:14 pm

Kirby wrote:I lost this game (Post #8).

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@216 This move was because I was afraid and didn't read well. Only 10 seconds per move, but I should have known that B M1 could simply be answered with L1. If L4, I simply play N1. If he tries to play O1, I have time to play J1.

Conclusion: This move is ridiculous, and I should play elsewhere. Maybe T17?...

First consider what happens when you tenuki and he plays J1, which is atari!

Beyond that consider what happens if he plays M1 (more stylish!), you answer at L1, and he simply connects at N1. What is your next move? Looks like time for more tsumego to me.

Kirby · Post by **Kirby** » Mon Jun 10, 2013 12:38 am

ez4u wrote:...
...Looks like time for more tsumego to me.

Thanks for the comments. I agree that it would be beneficial for my skill to practice tsumego. However, if I'm honest with myself and with you, I will not do this in the near future. I can make myself play a game a day, I think, but I'm not sure I have the willpower to do more than that for now.

That being said, missing an atari is kind of ridiculous, isn't it?

Kirby · Post by **Kirby** » Mon Jun 10, 2013 10:07 pm

I won this game.

daal · Post by **daal** » Tue Jun 11, 2013 1:01 am

I haven´t read all of these self-commented games, but I´m really enjoying them so far!

Minor note: in the game from post 5, his monkey jump at n1 doesn't work - you can still capture the three stones with P2. At move 160 you play P1 and they get away, unless I´m missing something. It was funny to see this sequence starting at black 21 at R5 as it's one of the few moves that I know how to punish, and one which I was told stops happening around 7k.

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