New year breakthrough

[Rafa]

Hello ladies and gentlemen, it is currently January 4th 2012 and it is time for me to start my journey to reach 1 Dan

Go Study Plan:
- Reading
- Get strong at Series
- Go graded problems 3
- Attack and Defense
- Learning from Pro games

- Playing (ASR League / WBaduk server)
- 1 or 2 serious games during the week if i´m not busy with school stuff
- 3 or more during the weekend

Time to work hard!!!

My first game this year (with some comments done by me)(Fixed i believe)

http://lifein19x19.com/forum/download/file.php?id=1456

[Phelan]

From my experience with Get Strong At Invading, the Get Strong at series is hard, so don't despair if you can't stomach through it. You'll still get something out of it even just by skimming it.

I can't seem to see the game in the post, though. I dloaded it and will be looking at it.

Good luck with your journey!

[hyperpape]

The link in your post is to to file 1455, but the attachment is 1456, Rafa.

[Rafa]

Thanks.
I haven´t touched that yet, i only looked at the get strong at the opening, seemed quite a nice book for reading, so i thought maybe the rest would be too.

[Phelan]

Finally had time to go over it:

(;GM[1]FF[4]CA[UTF-8]AP[CGoban:3]ST[2]
RU[Japanese]SZ[19]KM[6.50]
PW[Rafa]PB[Sagara]
;B[pd]
;W[dd]
;B[pp]
;W[dq]
;B[co]LB[do:A]TR[pd][pp]C[Here i thought he would play at "A", since probably the influence he would get would work nice with the right side, i read that in Get Strong at the Opening if i remember correctly.
[Phelan\]: I like your assesment of A here, seems better. Not sure enough of it to definitely say A was better, though.]
;W[dm]
;B[eo]
;W[fp]TR[fp]C[I saw this move in some professional games and also on some Tygem games, i dont really know much about it, so i played to see what happened from there.]
;B[em]
(;W[cf]LB[qf:D][qj:E][dm:1][ip:A][iq:B][nq:C]TR[cf]C[I guess this isn´t the right move, in the game felt right because i thought he didn´t want me to run the (1). When i reviewed the game later A/B seemed better, C/D/E was other options i considered aside "wC14"

[Phelan\]: I would immediately play D6 first, to break the shape, and then run out with something like D9.]
;B[hp]
;W[go]
;B[cq]LB[go:1][bp:2]C[This is another mistake by me i think, i should have played "2" here instead of running

[Phelan\]: Usually access to the center is better than living sealed in, but I'm not quite sure of it in this situation. I wouldn't call your move a mistake, though.]
;W[cr]
;B[dp]
;W[eq]
;B[bq]
(;W[qn]C[k

[Phelan\]: I still want to play D6 before anything else.]
;B[nq]
;W[rp]
;B[qq]
;W[qk]
;B[ho]
;W[gn]
;B[jc]
;W[hn]
;B[in]
(;W[nn]
;B[mo]
;W[dl]C[[Phelan\]: D6 first?]
;B[el]
(;W[ek]LB[dk:A]C[Extending here at A would be probably better.

[Phelan\]: Yes. Be careful of doing this hane if you're not sure of how to handle the cut. After getting a 4 stone group you can safely hane, though.]
;B[dk]
;W[ck]
;B[dj]
;W[cj]
;B[di]
;W[fk]LB[ci:A]C[Again A being probably better choice

[Phelan\]: Yep. It is even more severe here, because it's not a cut, it's a turn.]
;B[fo]
;W[gp]
;B[ci]
;W[bi]
;B[bh]
;W[dn]
;B[fm]
;W[bn]
;B[bj]
;W[bk]
;B[ai]
;W[bo]LB[bm:A]C[A is the shape for life, i believe, but please correct me if i´m wrong

[Phelan\]: Not quite sure if it can still die after A, but it would be much better, yes.]
;B[bl]
;W[al]
;B[cl]
(;W[qc]C[[Phelan\]: This looks too soon, Black gets an ideal wall towards the left. Maybe better to approach from the right?]
;B[pc]
;W[qd]
;B[qe]
;W[re]
;B[rf]
(;W[pb]C[[Phelan\]: R14 seems urgent, at this point.]
;B[ob]
;W[qb]
;B[pe]
;W[ec]LB[rd:A]C[Again another huge mistake by not connecting at A]
;B[rd]
;W[rc]
;B[se]
;W[ra]
;B[sb]
(;W[je]
;B[kd]
;W[ke]
;B[gl]
;W[br]
;B[ar]
;W[ld]LB[hl:B][hq:A]C[A for life, instead of actually worry about black getting more territory, which he already has plenty]
;B[lc]
;W[md]
;B[nc]
;W[ic]
;B[ib]
;W[jb]
;B[kb]
;W[jd]
;B[kc]
;W[mc]
;B[mb]
;W[hb]
;B[ja]
;W[hd]
;B[hq]
;W[gr]
;B[gq]
;W[fq]
;B[hr]
;W[fs]
;B[er]TR[ra][pb][qb][qc][rc][qd][cj][bk][ck][al][dl][dm][bn][dn][bo][eq]C[And another one bites the dust, ])
(;W[nb]C[[Phelan\]: I don't think this works here, but keep this move in mind when you need to live/link up with another group. *End of comments*]))
(;W[qf]
;B[pe]
;W[rg]
;B[rd]
;W[sf]
;B[rc]
;W[qb]
;B[rb]
;W[of]))
(;W[qf]C[[Phelan\]: This extends from your stones, and black's pincer doesn't seem that hard to handle.]
;B[qh]
;W[of]
;B[nd]
;W[pi]))
(;W[dk]
;B[ek]
;W[dj]
;B[ej]
;W[ei]
;B[di]
;W[ci]
;B[dh]
;W[ch]))
(;W[im]C[[Phelan\]: I think you could turn here in sente before reducing from the other side.]))
(;W[dn]))
(;W[dn]
(;B[do]
;W[dk])
(;B[en]
;W[dk]))
(;W[ch]C[[Phelan\]: If you want to play on this side, you can use the D7 stone to extend further, I think]))

[Rafa]

Thanks for the review Phelan. hope we can play sometime

On a quick and small update:

- finished 40 of 175 problems of Get Strong at the Opening
- finished 10 of 534 problems of Get Strong at Tesuji
- Played Game 2

[Rafa]

Time for another update:

- finished 100 of 175 problems of Get Strong at the Opening
- finished 15 of 534 problems of Get Strong at Tesuji

Key points to focus from now on:

- Defending, instead of actually going in berserk mode and attack everything or creating very big moyos
- Not worrying too, when my opponent creates a moyo.
- Learning how to count properly and don´t resign too soon.

[Phelan]

For counting, something that helped me a lot were these lessons.

[Rafa]

Yeah i remember those sgfs, i got them after talking to some people on ASR League room (or the enclave? i cant remember which was), they looked pretty helpfull when i took a quick look at them

[Rafa]

Time to bring the latest new of my study jornal

I´ve been playing a lot lately especialy on wbaduk, fighting sandbaggers from all over the corners of the world, which i actually enjoy doing it
I have been neglecting doing problems for a few days, but i´ve finished Get Strong at the Opening and i´m on the 120th problem of Get Strong at Tesuji.
And that´s it for now ^_^

I will be posting some games that i played on the ASR league as soon as i review them.