I'll get the ball rolling with this position:
This problem has been lifted from an answer page of Making Good Shape. Exchanging
for 
was the hard part. Only the easy part remains. What is black's move?Kyus share their insights
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Kyus share their insights
I thought that I'd make a thread in which kyu players share some of their brief moments of clarity in their otherwise clouded minds. What I'm looking for are moves or postions, whether they were shown to you by a teacher or discovered on your own, that exemplify a mistake that you have habitually been making, that you have recognized as bad, and have resolved to avoid in the future.
I'll get the ball rolling with this position:
This problem has been lifted from an answer page of Making Good Shape. Exchanging for was the hard part. Only the easy part remains. What is black's move?
I'll get the ball rolling with this position:
This problem has been lifted from an answer page of Making Good Shape. Exchanging
for was the hard part. Only the easy part remains. What is black's move?
captured at the clouded point. \n B is shut in, White has captured \n the marked stone in a ladder.Patience, grasshopper.
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Re: Kyus share their insights
Great thread! I wouldn't have played the right move in your position ^^ Most likely I would have just hopped to G12...
Coincidentally I had such an insight just a couple of minutes ago while reading Volume 2 of Dictionary of Basic Tesuji.
The task is to escape with your stones. But not just somehow, of course you must do it the most efficient way : )
Hint:
Starting point:
Solution:
Coincidentally I had such an insight just a couple of minutes ago while reading Volume 2 of Dictionary of Basic Tesuji.
The task is to escape with your stones. But not just somehow, of course you must do it the most efficient way : )
Hint:
Starting point:
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, he will be forced to connect at the marked stone after 
he will either capture one stone at 'a' or capture three in a ladder at 'b' - and that is the truth.Solution:
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Re: Kyus share their insights
This "insight" is more of a general blah-blah than a nice specific position, but I'm going to post it anyway, because this single thought appears to have turned my game around, and instilled it with confidence and bite.
The thought, which came from Robert Jasiek's book on Joseki strategy is simply this:
This, along with Robert's perhaps long-winded but nonetheless practical definitions of his concepts "stability" and "investment," have given me a handle that seems to be attached to a pointed stick. I think it's left a number of my opponents wondering what had hit them. (I know, because I've felt it often enough myself).
I must admit, I find this change a bit suspect, but apparently I'm correcting a fundamental error: overestimating the value of big points. So now, instead of spending my middle-game struggling to prevent my opponents from decimating my thin positions, I've been picking fights myself that I'm more likely to win. I'm starting to think that my perception of myself as a lousy fighter may have arisen from the fact that I had been fighting the wrong fights.
The thought, which came from Robert Jasiek's book on Joseki strategy is simply this:
In his book Joseki Strategy, Robert Jasiek wrote: ...big moves are not as big as their visual appearance tempts one to believe because it requires several moves to turn a sphere of influence entirely into territory. Contrarily, an urgent move realises its aims much faster. Therefore the territorial value on average per played stone tends to be greater for urgent moves than for big moves.
This, along with Robert's perhaps long-winded but nonetheless practical definitions of his concepts "stability" and "investment," have given me a handle that seems to be attached to a pointed stick. I think it's left a number of my opponents wondering what had hit them. (I know, because I've felt it often enough myself).
I must admit, I find this change a bit suspect, but apparently I'm correcting a fundamental error: overestimating the value of big points. So now, instead of spending my middle-game struggling to prevent my opponents from decimating my thin positions, I've been picking fights myself that I'm more likely to win. I'm starting to think that my perception of myself as a lousy fighter may have arisen from the fact that I had been fighting the wrong fights.
Patience, grasshopper.