Re: To 5 kyu in 5 months! (We'll see about that)
Posted: Tue Oct 15, 2013 8:07 am
Looking back I probably should have kicked at 
, but I had these big dreams of getting thick on the outside and then playing K4 to have an enormous box. (Delusions of turning a 200 point moyo into 200 points... 
) That was why I blocked him into the corner to start with instead of letting him run toward the right and have a pathetically weak group and that was also why I didn't block white from connecting. I just wanted a bigger wall, so I was thinking if white connected I got more thickness so my influence would be greater. (Because a wall in exchange for giving your opponent what he wants is better than attacking your opponent's weak groups. 
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The same thing happened in the other corner. I wanted white to take the corner so I could basically turn the upper right/center into points. However, that one I really should have kicked. I would have gotten a wall toward the top either way and then white wouldn't have had a base. (The great moyoaji, master of the stratagems everybody) As for
, I know I should have descended, but I don't know the joseki well enough to defend the clamp correctly. I need to work on that one. (You knew the right move but were afraid to play it. 
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As for
... I debated that move for over a minute, as you can see from the time. My justification was "corners before sides, enclosures before extensions" but I'm not sure. I feel like both are playable, but K4 would have been big, no doubt. (You're just lucky your opponent let you get both)
So yeah, I should be willing to let my opponent get some points here and there as long as I get more points than him. It only worked in this game because my opponent let me kill so many groups. If he'd made those live I would have had no points because I got way too greedy. (Okay, you've had your fun talking to folks on the Internet. Get back to schoolwork.
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, but I had these big dreams of getting thick on the outside and then playing K4 to have an enormous box. (Delusions of turning a 200 point moyo into 200 points... ) That was why I blocked him into the corner to start with instead of letting him run toward the right and have a pathetically weak group and that was also why I didn't block white from connecting. I just wanted a bigger wall, so I was thinking if white connected I got more thickness so my influence would be greater. (Because a wall in exchange for giving your opponent what he wants is better than attacking your opponent's weak groups. )The same thing happened in the other corner. I wanted white to take the corner so I could basically turn the upper right/center into points. However, that one I really should have kicked. I would have gotten a wall toward the top either way and then white wouldn't have had a base. (The great moyoaji, master of the stratagems everybody) As for
, I know I should have descended, but I don't know the joseki well enough to defend the clamp correctly. I need to work on that one. (You knew the right move but were afraid to play it. )As for
... I debated that move for over a minute, as you can see from the time. My justification was "corners before sides, enclosures before extensions" but I'm not sure. I feel like both are playable, but K4 would have been big, no doubt. (You're just lucky your opponent let you get both)So yeah, I should be willing to let my opponent get some points here and there as long as I get more points than him. It only worked in this game because my opponent let me kill so many groups. If he'd made those live I would have had no points because I got way too greedy. (Okay, you've had your fun talking to folks on the Internet. Get back to schoolwork.
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- I made myself strong before attacking.
- I actually found the obvious high pincer to attack both groups.
- I attacked both of the weak groups!
- I actually saw the move to remove the eye-space my opponent was trying to generate.
. Both groups were going to connect back. (You probably messed up somewhere to let that happen. Two weak groups and this guy almost screwed it up... 
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and I stopped just playing like an idiot and tried to remember everything I knew about nets and ladders to find a way out. I saw several ways and I was sure I could get out, but then my opponent got greedy. He tried too hard to seal me in and I had 2 ladders to get me out of the horrible position I was in. On the bottom side it just barely worked, but it did. (He was still going to lose at that point though, but then...)
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should have been a 3rd line stone, not 4th line - there was nothing left in the center for me. Move 
should have been at C14, not C17. I should have let him live in the corner and taken a big side for myself. Instead, I got no side and, later on in yose, no corner. (So your thought was "I want the side" and you played the move that said "I want the center." Then you played the one that said "I want him to be forced to make life on the side." Smooth, man. Real smooth. 
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) Instead, because of that joseki, I really didn't get either. I needed to block the other way and use the thickness to develop the right, the side my opponent's 5-4 wants to develop. My hoshi can work to grab the left with my other one anyway. I just don't like the other block for black, but I suppose my personal preference in joseki doesn't make it better. (No, you think? 
Honestly, I think a one-space jump or small-knight's defense are probably fine in this case, especially if you can get white to end in gote.
. I don't know what I was thinking to play like that. However, I was having a hard time against the dual 5-4 stones figuring out what to do.
. However, I felt that would be too slow. White's 2 stones are in danger of being surrounded, sure. But even if black attacks them it seems pretty easy for them to link back to the corner. So I figured a move like 'a' would be better and bigger and probably what a player like Lee Sedol, who can read much better than me, would play. (Because you would know where Lee Sedol would play in a go game... 
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