Life In 19x19

At what rank did you start reading what your opponent will do next?
I don't mean with 100% accuracy, I just mean do you actually try to figure out what your opponents best move will be?

Or are you lazy like me and just look at what your opponent can't do. And when you're satisfied with what he can't do you play your move and wait to see what he plays.

For example.

I play here, he plays there, I play there, he plays there.
Oh that's good for me. (I'll get solid territory here and he'll get influence facing the side but it's managable)
I play here, he plays here instead then here then there.
That's good for me too. (He'll cut me but both my groups will be strong and his group will be very weak)
Okay whatever my opponent plays, it will be good for me.

Do you stop here? Or do you continue into trying to figure out his actual move?
What rank did you start thinking all the way through?
I imagine i'm in the majority and everyone is lazy like me.

Unusedname wrote:At what rank did you start reading what your opponent will do next?
I don't mean with 100% accuracy, I just mean do you actually try to figure out what your opponents best move will be?

Your move should be proof against any response. If not, you should hope that your opponent does not make the best move.

Your move should be proof against any response. If not, you should hope that your opponent does not make the best move.

In an idealistic way you are correct. But up to now, my practical games are full of hope ...

Unusedname wrote:At what rank did you start reading what your opponent will do next?
I don't mean with 100% accuracy, I just mean do you actually try to figure out what your opponents best move will be?

Or are you lazy like me and just look at what your opponent can't do. And when you're satisfied with what he can't do you play your move and wait to see what he plays.

For example.

I play here, he plays there, I play there, he plays there.
Oh that's good for me. (I'll get solid territory here and he'll get influence facing the side but it's managable)
I play here, he plays here instead then here then there.
That's good for me too. (He'll cut me but both my groups will be strong and his group will be very weak)
Okay whatever my opponent plays, it will be good for me.

Do you stop here? Or do you continue into trying to figure out his actual move?
What rank did you start thinking all the way through?
I imagine i'm in the majority and everyone is lazy like me.

I do this quite a lot durig opening and early midgame. I usualy end up with a good position in early midgame fighting.

Howhever I really suck at core midgame because I cannot read out large scale things. Lately I`ve been running through chinese problems which contain large scale fights. That seems to help me in getting more experience with large scale stuff. Howhever probably a 10.000 tygem games should also fix this

In short I, think that everybody around our rank has this problem and we just need more experience and tsumego to solve it.



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