Hello! I am beginner, trying to improve my play. Currently my rank is 30 kyu. I am using ai sensei to review my games, however I do not understand some moves it suggests.
In my recent game, I saw in analysis, that move 21 (capturing two stone group in atari) made white gain significant advantage. However, if I have not captured them, they could capture my group in corner.
Any feedback or review is much appreciated. Thank you!
One key skill in go is determining whether a move you’d make at an area that has stones there change anything.
In the position after move 21, for right upper corner, even if it was white’s move, the stones at G7-8 cannot run away. The only move he/she can try is G9, but you can answer it with F9 to put them in atari again and win the capturing race.
Overall I think it isnt really bad game for a beginner, one advice I can give is you seem to focus too much on the one area of the board and ignore other parts. For example after move 16, you spent 2 moves (played J7 then J6) to threaten one single stone, which these 2 moves don’t affect whether the big groups live or die. It is just 2 free moves enemy can use to build territory elsewhere, which they did.
That is totally normal, all the way up to 1 dan. Your should consider yourself lucky if you find a few you do understand. You can sometimes find out more by looking at its territory or loss predictions or by seeing how it would continue a variation. In particular, if you rejected the move it suggests, then look how it reacts to what your thought your opponent could do to refute it.
But be prepared for most of what AI suggests to be over your head. It cannot explain or put things in terms of concepts we can understand. You are very wise to seek a review here instead.
Your group in the corner has two liberties. The two white stones only have one.
Even if white would play at A, their stones would still have only two liberties (F9 an H9) and by responding with B for example you could bring their liberties down to one again.
You would always keep the upper hand and would be able to capture white when necessary.
Capturing the stones right away is inefficient as you would have been able to play somewhere else instead.
And whether you win or lose in Go mostly comes down to efficiency.
Ai is useful whether ogs’s own version or others like ai sensei but its reading is so far in advance of our own that in many cases what is a good move for it is a bad move for us. Especially the further down (up??) The kyu ranks you go.
Keep the slider for game rank very low which ensures the ai focuses more on larger mistakes and keeps things simpler..
Capturing the two white stones was an entry-level type of mistake though.
You don’t really need AI to understand that you can’t let your opponent play two times for free. That’s a huge advantage you give him and should be avoided at all cost, so don’t play moves not needed (like the capture here).
