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[Bill Spight]

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[paK0]

Thanks Bill, a lot of those moves seem really obvious AFTER one has seen them played

Gotta work on that, maybe I still play to fast/don't consider enough alternatives

[Bill Spight]

Thanks Bill, a lot of those moves seem really obvious AFTER one has seen them played

Gotta work on that, maybe I still play to fast/don't consider enough alternatives

It's a good idea to consider up to 5 options for each move.

[Xylol]

If you play to fast, sit on you hands or force yourself to wait everytime 20s or more before you move, even if you know the joseki, just sit there and wait the 20s. After a while you will get bored of the 20s rule and you will start to look around the board and search for things and start thinking more about the move.

[Bill Spight]

If you play to fast, sit on you hands or force yourself to wait everytime 20s or more before you move, even if you know the joseki, just sit there and wait the 20s. After a while you will get bored of the 20s rule and you will start to look around the board and search for things and start thinking more about the move.

Why 20 sec.? A reasonable pace is 15 sec. per move on average, which means that most moves will take less than that.

If you play too fast, it is because you are not thinking. If you are not thinking, come up with a way to think about your moves. Sitzfleisch is not strategy.

[paK0]

- 150 Problems
- Studies some joseki
- Played some games, one was really good, the others not so much...

Here is one of them. I found two big problems:
- Failure to use my walls: Got big walls on the right and top side but failed to make anything happen with them
- Couldn't kill the left side. This was probably the game decider, my fighting is as weak as ever

Any comments appreciated.

[Abyssinica]

At black 11 I would play k16 to make a sanrensei since your stone on the bottom left has miai of going into the corner or coming out to the side while all of white's stones are on one side.

Maybe someone can correct my reasoning here.

[Bill Spight]

At black 11 I would play k16 to make a sanrensei since your stone on the bottom left has miai of going into the corner or coming out to the side while all of white's stones are on one side.

Maybe someone can correct my reasoning here.

failed to pincer . Sanrensei would allow White to rectify that omission.

(So does the actual , BTW, so I think that it would be better on the left side. )

As the play went, at move 13 White ended up with too many stones on the bottom side.

[Bill Spight]

I found two big problems:
- Failure to use my walls: Got big walls on the right and top side but failed to make anything happen with them
- Couldn't kill the left side. This was probably the game decider, my fighting is as weak as ever.

Your wall on the right could have been avoided if you had played at R-10, for instance. Divide and conquer. But you actually got good use out of that wall. It supported your invasion at M-03 and allowed you to get your wall in the center. (If you had not had your wall on the right White would have played differently.)

As for the left side, you missed a couple of chances to shore it up. J-10 would have been better at H-10. Then when the fighting started, White would not have had the push and cut that gave you trouble.

[paK0]

Thanks for the comments. I chose the slide on the left side because my right group already has a pretty good invasion point near the white strength and I din't want to make another one like that(I try really hard to not make more than one weak group, I recently lost 2 games in a row because of that).

I can see why one would choose R10, but the white response of Q6 looks really strong to me as well. Anyway, in the game I didn't even consider the iron pillar, maybe its time to reread the how to play go series =).

Oh, I also played my first game of real life go today, my mother got curious when the board arrived, so I taught her to play and we played two games afterwards(who needs sleep anyways).

[Bill Spight]

I can see why one would choose R10, but the white response of Q6 looks really strong to me as well.

After W Q-06, B O-14.

[paK0]

200 Problems
8 Games

Went 2-6 and it really should have been 0-8, I play at super blitz speed, which is rather annoying. I wonder why it is so hard to slow down a little...

[RBerenguel]

200 Problems
8 Games

Went 2-6 and it really should have been 0-8, I play at super blitz speed, which is rather annoying. I wonder why it is so hard to slow down a little...

Then play real blitz and no slow games. Not worth beating yourself for that, just enjoy it at your pace. The 200 problems are for the week for for the day?

[paK0]

For the day, I try to do daily updates right now, since I got enough time to actually get something done =).

I wonder if playing blitz actually makes you better. I got 10k KGS doing only that, but right now I'm struggling at 16k Tygem level on normal time settings.

[RBerenguel]

For the day, I try to do daily updates right now, since I got enough time to actually get something done =).

I wonder if playing blitz actually makes you better. I got 10k KGS doing only that, but right now I'm struggling at 16k Tygem level on normal time settings.

Well, can't be sure. I've been told to play blitz since I don't have that much time for slow games, so playing anything is better. Keep in mind that Tygem (and wbaduk) are quite full of sandbaggers, at the DDK area.