Life In 19x19

Yes, Bill, your comments reinforce my observation that I ignore the corners when I should be contesting them. (Plus lots of other mistakes you point out, thank you.) I guess because I haven't looked at any, and I do mean any, Joseki, I feel uncomfortable sliding in to the corners to fight. (Edit: I guess I am afraid of falling into traps. A legacy of my chess days and playing Sicilian Dragon and Najdorf games where not knowing in advance usually gets you killed! Maybe I should have called my post Too fear influenced...) Perhaps I should study a few basic patterns with 4-4 corners? Not to memorize but to get more of a feel of some possibilities?

In any case, I really appreciate your help, and everyone else who has made observations/suggestions, which have given me some things to think about.

Now if I could just find some opponents 20 plus/minus 4 (what I ask for on KGS) to get some practice. While I did play a few 9x9 on igowin, I only starting playing MFG on 19x19 because of the difficulty in finding other beginners on KGS. I may try Tygem again. (I did beat an 18k there, but probably only because he disconnected. Really annoying--maybe he left after about 30 moves because of the slow 30-min time control I set? My only other game there was Silver Star, which I may try again as it seems weaker than MFG.)

Aidoneus wrote: Now if I could just find some opponents 20 plus/minus 4 (what I ask for on KGS) to get some practice.

You don't really need to aim so low. Just start assuming you're around 10-15k and try automatches and getting matches around that level. The system will quickly place you into an area for closer games.

Hi Aidoneus, continue to do your best in your games,
and have them reviewed.

EdLee wrote:Hi Aidoneus, continue to do your best in your games,
and have them reviewed.

I just noticed this post. Thank you for your encouragement!

For the last week or so I have been studying Bruce Wilcox's Go Dojo discs. After which I plan on playing more partial games with Many Faces of Go. By looking at the built-in scoring of MFG, I can quickly see where I have been going wrong in these handicap games and hopefully improve the speed of my counting territory. I do plan on uploading more games with human opponents eventually, but I just don't want to abuse the community with too many of my games--especially if I keep making the same mistakes.

Aidoneus wrote:

EdLee wrote:Hi Aidoneus, continue to do your best in your games,
and have them reviewed.

...... I do plan on uploading more games with human opponents eventually, but I just don't want to abuse the community with too many of my games--especially if I keep making the same mistakes.

I felt this way and keep hearing it from others as well.... but please post as many games as you want. As long as you also put a bit of effort into review and replying to the feedback, there is no such thing as posting too many games. Most of us love helping new players.