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Like the wind...
Posted: Thu Sep 06, 2012 1:41 pm
by tomukaze
Hi all,
My name is Tom from Ireland.
I am quite new to this forum, but have been playing go for about a year and a half. I've reached the modest level of about 7k Kgs and 9k European rank.
At the moment I am in a bit of a slump. I've been the above level for about 6 months now, and don't seem to be able to break through the 9k barrier. The way I think in games is, KILL KILL KILL, which I know is not the correct way to approach the game especially as it lends itself to lots of overplays. At the moment I am trying to put pressure on enemy groups while not overextending myself to kill and also trying to make territory along the way. Well that is the way I am trying to play anyway. Here is a game I played earlier today, this might give an idea of how I play.
http://www.lifein19x19.com/forum/download/file.php?id=2038
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Anyway looking forward to this journal!
Re: Like the wind...
Posted: Thu Sep 06, 2012 1:48 pm
by Boidhre
Welcome Tom. Good to see another clubmate around.
Re: Like the wind...
Posted: Thu Sep 06, 2012 2:05 pm
by tomukaze
Thanks Padraig!
Re: Like the wind...
Posted: Thu Sep 06, 2012 4:59 pm
by grooviest
hello
Re: Like the wind...
Posted: Fri Sep 07, 2012 12:41 am
by CnP
Hi welcome!
just a comment on your game - I know I'm not stronger than you but for #8 I think black 8 at p15 instead. After 8-22 white has sealed you in and cut you off - a classic handicap game approach for white I guess. I always thought the best way for black was to keep white separated. That bit at least seems less like "Kill kill kill" but more like "oh crikey white is a big strong Go player"
. As it turned out White killed the K16 group so his outside strength from that early exchange might have contributed - live and you'd have won?
Re: Like the wind...
Posted: Fri Sep 07, 2012 9:08 am
by Shaddy
8 is fine. White is split and Black has pincers on both sides.
Re: Like the wind...
Posted: Fri Sep 07, 2012 1:59 pm
by Joaz Banbeck
I like your style.
The only problem that I see is that you are not trying hard enough to kill.
Several times in the game above, you tenuki when you could have been strengthening one of your attacking groups. 36 could have been at N13, and 76 could have been at B8.
Re: Like the wind...
Posted: Fri Sep 07, 2012 2:25 pm
by tomukaze
Thanks Joaz!
More killing spirit needed. Excellent
Re: Like the wind...
Posted: Fri Sep 07, 2012 3:40 pm
by tomukaze
Thanks Groovy!
Do you have a blog too?
Re: Like the wind...
Posted: Fri Sep 07, 2012 3:42 pm
by tomukaze
@Cnp
Thanks for the comments. I too was thinking of that move, but I didn't want white to live so easily. However in the end he did
Re: Like the wind...
Posted: Sat Sep 08, 2012 1:41 am
by CnP
Thanks, well it turns out I was wrong, so I'm the one who benefits
(when will Go start making sense???)
Re: Like the wind...
Posted: Sat Sep 08, 2012 6:46 am
by tomukaze
I've recently joined the NGA (Nordic Go Academy) and played my first game today.
Here is the game below, I am black. I believe that my fuseki was only ok, but I think the timing of some of the big moves were off and I couldn't find the right moment to play the side extension on the right side.
Anyway here is the game for your pleasure/horror
Even though it was a won game for me comments on the fuseki would be great, from all levels!
http://www.lifein19x19.com/forum/download/file.php?id=2041
Re: Like the wind...
Posted: Sat Sep 15, 2012 9:20 am
by tomukaze
A game I played today. I created too many dead stones and couldn't find the best way to use the aji of the dead stones. I also wonder what I could have done better on the bottom with the group that eventually died.
Anyway here is the game. All comments welcome.
http://www.lifein19x19.com/forum/download/file.php?id=2064
Re: Like the wind...
Posted: Sat Sep 15, 2012 10:07 am
by emeraldemon
seems like the start of your problems. My feeling is that it's better to leave that stone as aji and just approach the upper right corner at R14. If you want to go for the top, maybe L17?
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Re: Like the wind...
Posted: Sat Sep 15, 2012 2:57 pm
by Splatted
36 is also a bad move. All it does is allow black to fix his weakness.