Whenever I do my monthly post in this topic I'm surprised that a month has already passed and that I neglected to post any of my promised weekly progress games. Good job!
So, what happened this month? I decided to not play any live games this month, which is kind of the opposite of what I originally wanted to do.
Instead I finished the first five Level Up! books and am halfway through the (much more difficult?) Review 1 book. I also sat down and started actively working with the Opening Theory Made Easy and Second Book of Go books. I continued my 2x10 correspondence games and finished a couple as well, so it's not like I'm not playing at all, but since correspondence is slow, I just played about half a dozen games.
The LevelUp! books are really great, I guess I did about 1800+ tsumego within the past 4 weeks.
Now here's something interesting: I haven't really changed anything at all, but I played a live game yesterday and my anxiety was basically gone. I don't know if this was a fluke, if it'll return or what happened, but for this one game I could just focus on playing go and it was great! It might have been the break I took, combined with me reading the Opening Theory book? Don't get me wrong, I still lost horribly because I'm still ranked too high and made tons of mistakes, but I didn't feel as lost as I did in previous live games.
I will definitely try another live game and see how I'm doing. I still have no explanation for this change, but I'll keep an eye on it. If it's just gone, that would be wonderful.
Here's that game I was talking about. I already reviewed it myself, but getting some input from higher level players will surely give me more insight:
Notes:
-I'm happy that blacks invasion on the left side didn't work out.
-I wish I could've done something with my stones in the middle. Can't figure out if I abandoned them too early after they got disconnected before.
A couple of random questions:
1) Should I, at my level, use Go Review Partner with Leela to look at my games? Or is it unlikely that I can take anything valuable away from that?
2) I haven't won a single game on OGS yet, but my rank keeps going up from time to time, due to timeout "wins". Is there any way to make these games not count towards my rating?
3) Memorizing pro games at my level: Yay or nay?
Thanks everyone for helping me out and sorry for the lack of updates, but if my anxiety issues are in fact better now (will find out soon), I'll have more material to post for sure
is very interesting for me, I never expected to be able to cut but still take a bit of the corner.
is something I just play automatically. Your explanation has been really helpful in making me understand what that move actually is supposed to be used for.
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but I have trouble imagining the issued with these moves, especially