mitsun wrote:Games below dan level are almost always won by fighting mistakes or outright blunders. The quickest way to improve at your level is to get better at fighting. Studying tesuji can help with this, as can game reviews, but there is no substitute for reading.
In earlier posts, you indicated that you do not like reading and prefer to play on instinct. Sorry if I sound discouraging, but that is going to hold back your progress. A professional has good enough instincts to get away with this (when playing an amateur), but you and I do not.
Reading takes time and effort. In this game, it appears you played the first 100 moves at a pace of 6 seconds per move. That is way too fast to permit serious reading. I suggest playing some much slower games, at least when you intend to learn from those games.
Yes! I quite agree. Agreeing is one the first step though, putting this into practice is another, but from now on I will try and take more than 6 seconds on moves at the start
mitsun wrote:
As a side anecdote, a professional player once visited my Go club and played some blitz games against the strongest players. He gave 6-Dans a handicap of 6 stones in games with a time limit of 10 seconds per move. Every one of the amateurs played a good opening and had a huge lead well into the middle game, but all lost badly in the middle game fighting and resigned before the endgame. The amateurs were a bit surprised by this result, but the professional pretty much knew this would happen, based on the time limit.
When I read pro games I am amazed at what happens from the middle game to the end. What I thought would be black's territory,say, turns out to be white’ｓand everything then is turned upsidedown. Pros live in an amazing world.
mitsun wrote:
Enough of the demoralizing comments and on to the constructive criticism:
Not demoralizing at all! In fact the comments are very encouraging, thank you! 有難う御座いました!
