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Posted: **Sun Jul 07, 2013 8:18 pm**

I think D8 is too submissive there billy in your first variation, I'd expect more of a fighting move from Black there. F10 would be annoying for White if they didn't know how to handle it.

Posted: **Mon Jul 08, 2013 12:52 am**

Thanks a lot guys.

I think I notice a pattern in my games, my shape seems to be suboptimal and my attacking game is lacking(not aggressive enough or happening in the wrong way).

Time to get on that.

Posted: **Sat Nov 16, 2013 2:16 pm**

Whem, has been forever since I posted here, my abscence was a lot longer than planned.

Anyway, I'm back and I'm still trying to improve, turns out you can forget quite a lot, even if you didn't know that much in the first place =).

So, I wanna show you a quick game of mine. Here's the gist: Big fight on the right side that I win, and a few moves later the game is over and I lost x.X.

I'm not looking for a move by move analysis, but if you could take a quick look an tell me my most glaring mistakes regarding where I play(on the whole board, not in the fight or a specific joseki). Did I focus too much on the fight and should have tenukied?

Thanks in advance.

Posted: **Sat Nov 16, 2013 3:18 pm**

Great to have you back pak0!

Here are some comments on your game.

Posted: **Sat Nov 16, 2013 4:09 pm**

thanks, I took quite a bit from that

Posted: **Sat Nov 23, 2013 6:40 am**

So, another game I could use some help on.

Been kind of in a slump lately and been playing terrible, I never have a clue of where to play x.X.

The one mistake in the end was just stupid, but I wanna know what I should have done against his big mojo, the attack that I tried was obviously really bad.

Posted: **Sun Nov 24, 2013 10:11 am**

Hey paK0,

I reviewed the game for you. But please keep in mind, that I'm only about 6k, so what I think is good (or bad) might not be really good or bad. ;-)

I also haven't commented someone's game in a while.. :oops:

Still, I hope that the comments will help you to get stronger!

Posted: **Sun Nov 24, 2013 4:18 pm**

Thanks for the review

Seems like I botched the game a lot earlier than I assumed, this game was pretty much my lowest point of the week.

Posted: **Sun Nov 24, 2013 11:22 pm**

You're welcome. :-)

I don't think it was such a bad game for you, your worst mistake was playing too timidly on the left side (which is not playing the hane and or at least playing D8), granting black all this influence without any real defects which was too burdensome for you. But that was last week and now's the next. I wish you all the best for your games this week! :-)

Posted: **Thu Nov 28, 2013 8:57 am**

Another game, another disaster x.X

Been playing catchup since the opening, can someone give me some pointers on how to play if the other guy just randomly plays on the side-stars?

Posted: **Tue Dec 03, 2013 1:05 pm**

Can someone pls have a short look at this? Its only about 70 moves, I resigned quite early

I really have a hard time in the opening as white, I always seem to fall behind way more than it should be normal.

Posted: **Tue Dec 03, 2013 2:34 pm**

To be fair your opponent seemed stronger than you. They were not ranked, but it was clear the game was not even.

Here are some comments.

EDIT: I realized I accidentally left in a sequence I was going to make note of but decided not to. When I'm talking about the possible 3-3 invasion I showed how white could split black by not playing the atari at move 20, but this is not very favorable for white. My point was going to be that black can be cut, so it is important to check for that because it comes up in many variations of this, but that it doesn't work in this case.

Posted: **Tue Dec 03, 2013 4:33 pm**

Thanks moyo for the comments

The time thing is kind of an issue, I used to use more, but in my last few games I've started to play faster, not sure why, gotta get that back in order.
I noticed in the game that the 2 descends gave my opponent the opportunity to tenuki, but I still did them, I'm usually really paranoid about being undercut, the more I look at them the worse they seem.
I saw the invasion possibility on the bottom, but I almost never play out any invasion. I can usually find a point to invade, put a stone there and then I think "now what?". I never know if I should try to live, try to get out, try to kill something, etc...., I really need to work on that.

Thanks again, I think that really helps me

Posted: **Sun Dec 08, 2013 5:59 pm**

Well, I'm back to 13k finally, so I'm about where I was some months ago. Actually I'm kinda surprised, I feel like I've been losing more than winning, but I'll take it XD.

I've also decided to use the opening post to track some things that I've learned(or rather that I need to apply more), lets see if I can keep that up.

Anyway, thanks for everyone who helped out by reviewing my games or playing me, any help is appreciated.

Ok, now lets get that 12k

Posted: **Mon Dec 09, 2013 4:31 am**

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