Life In 19x19

Crossposted from Study Journal forum ..

Here's a very fun game I had played last night against another rusty returnee. His provisional rank was 16k?. But I saw him decimate a 14k with a 2 stone handi and so I offered to play him even. He agreed and it was a blast, ending up with a 0.5 win.



Here are my own comments -

I didn't really have a plan for my invasion on the right. I stumbled into a living group based on his mistakes. While I was pleased to just make it out alive, I know there is something better to do here.

My invasion left, and the resulting ko have me trouble. I botched the ko by trading the corner and lost a ton of points. I get nervous in ko fights, trying to assess ko threats. The result is timid play damaging play.

In the endgame, I felt I was almost ever in gote and losing points. I am sure I missed tesuji's along the way that perhaps could have given me a little more edge in the count.

Thanks in advance

Just a few quick thoughts:


10: Was this intentional? Experiments are good, but f17 is much safer.

26: A weird move, this doesn't seem to pressure the black stones at all.

28: I'd block the other side N3, cutting off the k3 stone.

34 & 36: These feel quite bad to me. You're settling, but black has made a very big right side without much fight.

52: I think this is too deep. You got lucky living. I'd probably play the split around O14, try to pressure the j17 group into giving you thickness.

73: If black connects at S11, I'm pretty sure all the white stones die...

132: Don't fight the ko, just capture with B11.

186: Pretty sure L19 is bigger than this.

Thanks emerald ...

Would something like 32 at Q7 be a better move to contest the right, even at the expense of settling the N4 group?

I especially like 132 at B11, thanks again!

Looking for the game losing play.

Go to move 251.

EiggHead wrote:Would something like 32 at Q7 be a better move to contest the right...

Bill Spight wrote:Looking for the game losing play

It's not easy to answer your question about at Q7 --
there are bigger, more fundamental problems elsewhere. Listen to Bill.

EdLee wrote:

EiggHead wrote:Would something like 32 at Q7 be a better move to contest the right...

Bill Spight wrote:Looking for the game losing play

It's not easy to answer your question about at Q7 --
there are bigger, more fundamental problems elsewhere. Listen to Bill.

Thanks, Ed, but I just addressed a small problem.

As for the problem of , it can be traced back to earlier plays. , , and would have been better at O-03. would have been better at O-15. Under the circumstances, was not bad.

Thank you Ed and Bill ... I love how when doing fuseki problems I can maintain a calm that is seems impossible when I'm actually playing