Life In 19x19

Posted: **Tue Jul 06, 2010 8:02 pm**

I've realized that an hour a day is a bit more than my attention span can take, so I think I'll pare down my plans do doing one of the items in my plan. Yesterday I finished the blue book, although I'll definitely have to give this one a reread as I got too many wrong. Tonight I started the purple book, and this one is noticeably harder, although I am still doing respectably well at getting the answers.

Posted: **Thu Jul 08, 2010 4:26 pm**

A lost game. I neglected to defend some big groups, and that cost me dearly.

Posted: **Thu Jul 08, 2010 4:39 pm**

Redundant wrote:A lost game. I neglected to defend some big groups, and that cost me dearly.

http://files.gokgs.com/games/2010/7/8/okina1-redundant.sgf

T2 is interesting, is that the best local move?

Posted: **Thu Jul 08, 2010 9:05 pm**

kokomi wrote:
Redundant wrote:A lost game. I neglected to defend some big groups, and that cost me dearly.

http://files.gokgs.com/games/2010/7/8/okina1-redundant.sgf

T2 is interesting, is that the best local move?

R4 should be better first - then black defends (R5) and white plays S1. Later white may find a time to push up at Q4 and cut.

Posted: **Fri Jul 16, 2010 3:31 am**

If 67 is S1, I can't see a way for white to live at a glance, at least.

Posted: **Sat Jul 17, 2010 8:42 am**

I'm back. I took a weeklong break from go, because I wasn't happy with the way I was playing. I was playing without thinking. Today I'll play a game or two to see if I'm able to focus on my games. I'll also start my study schedule up again if those games go well.

Posted: **Sat Jul 17, 2010 1:35 pm**

Two games from today: a win and a loss.

I lost the first game after I overplayed severely in the bottom right.

In the second game, my opponent died huge after deciding he'd rather kill me than live.

Posted: **Fri Jul 23, 2010 6:53 am**

I've been slacking off on tsumego. Can someone here yell at me?

Posted: **Fri Jul 23, 2010 7:00 am**

Redundant do my tsumego for me so I get to 1d soon! You're slacking off.

Posted: **Sat Jul 24, 2010 11:01 am**

20 tsumego now!

Yes right now, what are you still even reading this for? Get off the forum and go do some tsumego!

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Go!

Posted: **Thu Jul 29, 2010 11:08 am**

Yesterday I almost finished the purple LCH tsumego book. It really showed that I have some blind spots when it comes to life and death. I'm going to redo the blue and purple books before moving on to the next.

Posted: **Thu Jul 29, 2010 11:43 am**

Hey Red, have you gotten any games in in the last week? How'd they go, and can we see one?

Posted: **Thu Jul 29, 2010 12:04 pm**

I haven't played on kgs for a while, but here's a recent dgs game I played. I won by 6.5, but I feel like I made a huge mistake in saving my cutting stones. They just turned out to be heavy.

Posted: **Thu Jul 29, 2010 12:17 pm**

Thanks for sharing. Your opening with white was quite interesting to watch. Is the stuff in the top left something you've seen before, or were you winging it? I agree, black did a good idea attacking those stones for profit. That said, you did tenuki from the group a lot of times in order to build your framework. Perhaps black's single-mindedness in attacking meant that you got additional moves elsewhere to compensate a bit. Through the game, I kept expecting you to capture two stones in snapback at P15, since it had a somewhat sente followup double-atari outside. Perhaps it was always a bit small though?.

Posted: **Thu Jul 29, 2010 12:35 pm**

Chew Terr wrote:Your opening with white was quite interesting to watch. Is the stuff in the top left something you've seen before, or were you winging it?

I knew that the joseki was to make the bamboo joint with 11. I wasn't sure what the best "punishment" was for leaving the cut there, so I decided to just wing it and try to kill everything.

Chew Terr wrote:Through the game, I kept expecting you to capture two stones in snapback at P15, since it had a somewhat sente followup double-atari outside. Perhaps it was always a bit small though?.

I was really unsure on the timing of when to take those stones. I really didn't get sente to do so until ~110, and by that point I was getting worried about his bottom, so I played in a way that he could turn his entire potential into territory :lol:

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