How to learn from pro games the lazy way

I think this is a great idea. I’ve been using an online app to go through sets of tsumego again and again, going to the next level only when I make no mistakes.

It’s just not the same thing to read through a game, without any guessing. Without challenge, how can I understand why a move is played?

In my case, I prefer to focus on the tactics of 9x9 games, but few professional-level 9x9 games seem to be available. Also, the interactive small tsumego I’ve found have been too few. If anyone can point to more 9x9 resources like these, please let me know. Interactive only, please!

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Without asking the player, I think the best you can do is make up your own meaning, unless you ask other players, or find game reviews by other players.

It’s kind of what I was saying above, you make your own meaning and story from the game, and it’s fine if as you go along that meaning changes the more you understand about the game.

I think go is like that anyway, the reason one player plays a two space extension might not always be the same as why another player at another level does, so whether you want that distinction or insight is up to you ultimately. It doesn’t always seem necessary though, maybe not for every move.

I understand that sometimes a move can be hard to guess but after being on the board it’s easier to search why and how.
To analyze you need some good grasp on the fundamentals (like use of the thickness, miai, aji, timing, yosumiru, lack of libs etc …) but you have where the move is played so in some way it makes the analysis more restricted as when you have to guess it.

Anyway you don’t have to guess to learn a pro game, it can be partly done, postponing the analysis.

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