Life In 19x19

Willpower maintained to play a second day in a row. Check.

Win the game... Not check.

Enjoyed the game. Double check.

Rating: I rate this game 7/10, even though my reading was off. I misread the top left to think I was alive, which was silly, and I made some other silly mistakes. Nonetheless, I felt in the zone more often than I have been lately, and for that, I'll give myself a good rating.

Here's the sgf:


Incidentally, since I spent additional time thinking today, I don't have time for all of the Elf stuff and diagram analysis. I did put a few comments throughout the game.

Main things I would point out are:
1.) Misreading the top left status was pretty noob of me.
2.) I thought his move on the second line to initiate the attack on the top left was nice. It's a shape I kind of "know", but don't *KNOW*. Hopefully this experience will help me to *KNOW* it better.

Frustrating to lose again, but I had a winning streak before, so I don't feel that bad. And I was in the zone for awhile this game, even if that's hard to believe. And that felt pretty good.

And of course, I didn't even remember what color I played in the review :-p

I played as white, of course - not black!

I'm exhausted today. I stayed up late on Tuesday night, and I had a 5am exercise class in the morning. I did a few go problems in the morning, and at lunch, but didn't feel like playing today.

But I wanted to keep the momentum going, so I played a game on Tygem.

Day 3: Game for the day, 3rd in a row, check.

I wasn't thinking as deeply as yesterday, and I was too busy for this game - I had like three weak groups simultaneously at one time. I wasn't having a consistent strategy. My opponent, accordingly, took the lead.

Then, at the last minute, he got psyched out or something, and let me capture a group of his stones that I put in atari - pretty sure he can just connect and be fine, though, maybe there's small aji. I don't think I could have done anything.

Anyway, that put me ahead by 1.5 points. But I was playing on my phone, and it gave me a message saying the score may be incorrect, and somehow it put the score at B+0.5. Here is the game:



I've been losing for the past few days in a row. Prior to that, I had a long winning streak when I was playing morning games at 6am, though, with many of those games, I just had some win by luck.

Maybe, somehow, I'm luckier when I'm tired. Oh well. I don't feel great about how busy I was with all of my groups this game, but I'm satisfied that I at least played a game.

And it's a bit petty, but I'm happy to break my losing streak, even if it was my opponent losing sanity for a minute.

Played a lot at the club today. I won't transcribe the games here.

Just checking in to say my streak of playing games every day continues.

Friday night. Didn't feel like playing, but next weekend is the Cotsen, so have got to keep going.

I played on Tygem, and won. I can't say the quality of the game was all that high. He was kind of crazy, and I was pretty sloppy.

Anyway, here is the SGF;

My biggest takeaway from this game is here:

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[go]$$B
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$$ | . . . . . X . . X . . . . . . . . . . |
$$ | . . . O . . . . . , . . . . . O . . . |
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$$ | . . O . . . . . . . . . . . . . X . . |
$$ | . . O X X O . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
$$ | . X O O X X . . . . . . . . . O O . . |
$$ | . X O . . . . . . X . . . O . O X . . |
$$ | . . X O O O . . W , . . . . O X X . . |
$$ | . . X X X O . . . X . . . O X . X . . |
$$ | . . . . . . . . . . . . . O X . X . . |
$$ | . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . X . . . |
$$ ---------------------------------------[/go]

I think my peep is questionable. Let's rate it 35/100. But after he responds, the push and cut is even worse:

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[go]$$B
$$ ---------------------------------------
$$ | . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
$$ | . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
$$ | . . . . . X . . X . . . . . . . . . . |
$$ | . . . O . . . . . , . . . . . O . . . |
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$$ | . . O . . . . . . . . . . . . . X . . |
$$ | . . O X X O . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
$$ | . X O O X X . . . . . . . . . O O . . |
$$ | . X O . . . . . . X 4 . . O . O X . . |
$$ | . . X O O O . . O 2 3 . . . O X X . . |
$$ | . . X X X O . . . X . 1 . O X . X . . |
$$ | . . . . . . . . . . . . . O X . X . . |
$$ | . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . X . . . |
$$ ---------------------------------------[/go]

It just gives him forcing moves where he's weak.

To be honest, I don't really know where I should play. I'm thinking between these two options:

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[go]$$B
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$$ | . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
$$ | . . . . . X . . X . . . . . . . . . . |
$$ | . . . O . . . . . , . . . . . O . . . |
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$$ | . . O . . . . . . . . . . . . . X . . |
$$ | . . O X X O . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
$$ | . X O O X X . . . . . . . . . O O . . |
$$ | . X O . . . . . . X . W . O . O X . . |
$$ | . . X O O O . . O , . . . . O X X . . |
$$ | . . X X X O . . . X . X . O X . X . . |
$$ | . . . . . . . . . . . . . O X . X . . |
$$ | . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . X . . . |
$$ ---------------------------------------[/go]

and maybe to help the group on the left:

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[go]$$B
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$$ | . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
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$$ | . . . . . X . . X . . . . . . . . . . |
$$ | . . . O . . . . . , . . . . . O . . . |
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$$ | . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
$$ | . . . W . . . . . , . . . . . , . . . |
$$ | . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
$$ | . . O . . . . . . . . . . . . . X . . |
$$ | . . O X X O . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
$$ | . X O O X X . . . . . . . . . O O . . |
$$ | . X O . . . . . . X . . . O . O X . . |
$$ | . . X O O O . . O , . . . . O X X . . |
$$ | . . X X X O . . . X . X . O X . X . . |
$$ | . . . . . . . . . . . . . O X . X . . |
$$ | . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . X . . . |
$$ ---------------------------------------[/go]

Not sure, though.

Haha, I just looked at this with Elf, and I see that I missed an atari:

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[go]$$B
$$ ---------------------------------------
$$ | . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
$$ | . . . B . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
$$ | . . . . . X . . X . . . . . . . . . . |
$$ | . . . O . . . . . , . . . . . O . . . |
$$ | . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
$$ | . . O . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
$$ | . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
$$ | . . X . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
$$ | . . . X . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
$$ | . . X O . . . . . , . . . . . , . . . |
$$ | . . . O . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
$$ | . . O C O . . O . . . . . . . . X . . |
$$ | . . O X X O O X O . . . . . . . . . . |
$$ | . X O O X X O X O . O O . . . O O . . |
$$ | . X O . . X X X O X O X . O . O X . . |
$$ | . . X O O O O X O O X . . . O X X . . |
$$ | . . X X X O X O X X X X . O X . X . . |
$$ | . . . . . X X O . . O . . O X . X . . |
$$ | . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . X . . . |
$$ ---------------------------------------[/go]

I could have just captured his stones. Hehe.

This game was ridiculous.

How about cutting the sector line?

Bill Spight wrote:How about cutting the sector line?

Thanks for the comment. Which sector line?

Hi Kirby,

What's the time control ?

D5

Kirby wrote:

Bill Spight wrote:How about cutting the sector line?

Thanks for the comment. Which sector line?

F-06 - K-05.

EdLee wrote:Hi Kirby,

What's the time control ?

D5

10 minutes + 3x30sec byoyomi

And, yes, about D5. That's what I meant earlier about the atari. Was totally blind to it during the game.

Bill Spight wrote:

Kirby wrote:

Bill Spight wrote:How about cutting the sector line?

Thanks for the comment. Which sector line?

F-06 - K-05.

You mean instead of the peep? Probably a better line of thinking.

Saturday night, also didn't want to play. But got another quick one in.

Here it is:

Kirby wrote:

Bill Spight wrote:How about cutting the sector line?

Thanks for the comment. Which sector line?

Bill Spight wrote: F-06 - K-05.

Kirby wrote: You mean instead of the peep? Probably a better line of thinking.

Sorry for being obscure. I meant after the peep.