I’m looking for a kind person willing to do a 19x19 correspondence teaching game with me.
Right now I feel like I’ve heard a thousand different pointers on what to look for, but I’m still struggling to connect the stones and get from beginner life and death problems to actual game situations. The groups I think need play to survive are just fine, the groups that I think are just fine end up dying because I neglect them. The connections I think are perfectly strong turn into critical weaknesses at the worst times. I don’t really know how to effectively invade, reduce, or surround. It seems like to even get to a life and death situation, you first have to surround a group, but I have no idea how to go about doing that effectively. It feels like I was taught the alphabet and then was given a book and told to read it without knowing anything about words or sentences. Hoping a teacher can help to bridge that gap
Thats not really what you asked for, but I made a review to one of your recent games, here.
Also, if you want another teaching game, feel free to send me a challenge, althought Im not sure if its good when too many people hammer their (different) thoughts in a beginners head.
Omg I’m so sorry. After I started 2 teaching games, I put all of my focus on them and didn’t really look in here.
Thank you so much for the review! The teaching games taught me so much, and I’ve been playing games against human opponents in the TPK range to help the lessons to sink in. If you’re willing, there was one recent game that I believe was very competitive up till about move 160 or so. By my counting, I was going to lose by a few points, but I got lucky and my opponent made some bad plays. If you have time, would you be willing to review that game? I believe it is a much better representation of my current strength after getting the entire Sensei’s library thrown at me!
I made a few comments on the game but there wasnt too much to comment on imo. It was a good game of you and pretty calm. That also usually means less mistakes. You care much about shape and weaknesses it seems which is very good. I liked the shapes you made very much.
Imo, keep up on what you are doing and you’re on a good way. The direction of play was certainly good. Some exchenges were maybe a bit inefficient and the sholder hits a bit defensive, but it turned out good in this game with the center moyo.
