At move 18 in a game I just lost, I am faced with this board position: Now, using the Clossi approach, I have to ask the first question: am I weak? and this is a very key point: the H3 stone is “light” but is it “weak”? If it is weak, we have 4 prioritized […]
Me vs Radium_Mail Round 3 (7k vs 7k) – HE BEATS ME AGAIN!!!@!
I reached some interesting positions in this game. But it seems I always lose to this person!!!! Nonetheless I learn a lot and am sure I will this time. Too bad I didnt know it when I was playing the game! It was correspondence so no excuses about not having enough time to analyze. Let’s […]
A wild ride with TigeEriCHan: Game Review (6k vs 7k)
I just finished a wild game versus TigeEriCHan… you know with a name like that, you are in for a ride. How to handle this invasion by the Tiger?! I chose the wrong cutting point at move 84 At move 106 Opponent had 1 good threat, I really had more: Have you ever had thickness […]
Wicked Fighting for the Aspiring 6k
I played a game against Lord Spoon who attends my Twitch channel. It was a good correspondence game with several places where each side could’ve played a single decisive stone to wreck an opponent group. If you can recognize the brutal play in each of these situations, you will be much further ahead in your […]
A 5-dan reviews a 3k versus 7k slugfest
I recently played a 3k on OGS and benefitted greatly from the commentary of a 5-dan. Normally I just use the AI, but the human touch in this case was super valuable. So let’s hit the high points of his review. White makes an overplay Here White has just played at O14 but … I […]
Play by Play, 7k versus 11k!
I’m playing a correspondence game on OGS and as soon as I saw a certain move by my opponent, I thought I would blog the critical positions in our game. Good beginner YouTube Stream My opponent wanted feedback on the opening. I referred him to Shygost’s list which has a section called “priorities in the […]
Wielding the tremendous power of a single stone
The fact that a single stone placed in the vital point of a group reveals the awesome power that a single stone can wield over a massive set of opponent stones. In the following examples, we see how to setup and win complex fights by choosing the right time to use a single stone against […]
3 Questions in a Painful Loss to a Player 3 Stones Stronger than Me.
I just lost a game that I was streaming live on my Twitch channel. I made flashcards of most of my mistakes after understanding them… however there were a few positions were the AI suggested moves that didnt make sense to me. Why should I play 1 in this position? I played at ‘2’ so […]
How to decide on the next move as Black in this position?
I reached this position in a correspondence game: Now, as a student of the Clossius approach, my analysis went like so: Am I in trouble? No. Nothing of mine is being threatened for its life. Is the opponent in trouble? Sort of. The White group ‘A’ has an open skirt and after playing ’22, I […]
Do we need a revision to the Clossi approach to move selection?
I really like the Clossi approach to move selection. It gives me a non-emotional way to look at the Go board. However, I want to ask if there is a need for a revision in the approach based on this Go position from this game: so using the Clossi approach, the first question is ‘am […]
A little life and death to go with your morning tea
I was working on Problem 24 in the excellent Just Go software: And I thought the program was broken because I thought C3 was a good move for Black. But once I loaded the position into Katrain, I saw that C3 did not work and that another move would save Black…. but I’m not going […]
Filthy Tesuji Coming Up in 3…., 2….
ONE STONE is all that is required for Black to take a commanding lead from this position in this game: All I could say was “oh my god” when I saw the sequence of Black moves.
Even at 7k, I suffer from fear of moyos
I made a post on reddit baduk about this position from a recent game of mine: I was really fearful of the framework that Black was building. And the whole game I felt like I was fighting against the wonderful coordination between his stones. After the game, I resolved to learn how to deal with […]
I deserved to be sent to the showers not once, not twice, but THREE TIMES against a 10k on OGS
I’m currently rated 7k on OGS and I like to play people between 10k and 7k. I always learn something in all of my games. However, my opponent should’ve deep-sixed me on 2 or 3 occasions in our game. Ultimately I only won by komi, so if he had found any of these 1-stone kills, […]