Life In 19x19

Posted: **Sun Apr 22, 2012 10:48 am**

After a few months of hiatus, I'm feeling a bit rusty. Here's a close game I played today, which I won on time (rather anticlimactic).

So I'm looking for an assessment of:

What could I have done to invade/reduce the right side more effectively?
Could I have done something differently in resurrecting my stones in the lower right late in the game?
Who should have won the game going from the final position?
Where am I being slow, heavy, thin, or generally stupid?

Thanks for your help and advice!

Posted: **Sun Apr 22, 2012 11:09 am**

double approach somehow. He ignored your approach, and you should take advantage there. Your move is thin.

:w12:

Take the corner at 3-3. If you let him get the corner later, it's too big. Your move is all right in protecting the thinness, but letting black force with the knights move cap isn't ideal.

:w20:

Don't invade here. If you want to invade, do it one space lower. The end result of this is that you give him a ton of points, while getting not enough influence in return.

After this black derps the game away, so I'll end comments here.

Posted: **Sun Apr 22, 2012 12:29 pm**

: 3-3 invasion and jump are also fine

:w14:

: P2 is just wildly inappropriate, however you look at it.

:w20:

: ...R14, usual joseki I guess? Seems like the game might be difficult after lower right.

Posted: **Sun Apr 22, 2012 1:04 pm**

A few comments.

Posted: **Mon Apr 23, 2012 8:12 am**

Thanks for the advice, everyone.

With respect to :w20:

: why would I want to invade one space lower rather than where I invaded?

Posted: **Mon Apr 23, 2012 5:06 pm**

Where you invaded just invites black to make a ton of points and you don't get enough influence to compensate. One space lower, and you can live in black's area.

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