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Keep experimenting, and try to remember what works!
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Agapanthus on 13×13: try handicap!
I see you played Agapanthus on 13×13 with no handicap, and lost. I think that was to be expected, but now you really could try taking Black and playing a series with handicaps. If you want to play 13×13, that is fine, but then I suggest a bigger handicap than I proposed for 9×9: try taking about 15 stones, which you should space out similarly to my suggestion for 9×9 (see here). Adjust the handicap after every game, as described there.
If you find yourself losing too much, I will gladly review a game, if it is public.
Quoting makes your posts clearer
If I may make another suggestion to make your posts easier to read: where you wrote
we could find out which method you meant because you very sensibly wrote this as a reply to my post, so a click brought it up. But it would have been even easier to understand at sight if you had quoted my post, looking something like this
To achieve that, select the text you want to quote and click/tap on “Quote”.
The selected text will appear as a quote within your post. If you were not writing a post, it will start one for you.
P.S. Please do not take this as a complaint or (negative) criticism: it is just meant as a suggestion that could help you get better answers by being easier to understand.
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i am thanking you for explaining to me the way this posting works- since i clearly don’t understand how to properly post things here, let alone play go, i will try better but iam afraid that i have a hard time just getting this computer to work and play this game. being an old guy whom let the computer generation pass him by - forget cell phones, and tic tok, face book, i can’t even get market place to work for me, to sell old things from my pervious life. and being dyslexic and bad eye sight sometimes i find it hard to really hard to express myself the way i should also iam policically and socially incorrect with most people thats what my grandkids and daughter tell me all the time – a sign iam told of going past old and coming into the range of a really old ancient being so please forgive me most time grammarly here, doesn’t work right or at all.. then sometimes it does — so again i am sorry if i don’t do things right - i will try harder but please don’t expect to much, i will try to respond less then just stay out of the frey – but thanks for helping me i read all your comments even if i don’t know how to respond to them the right way .
Well done: a win!
I see you just won a game fair and square against a new player who has not yet got a rank (which is what “[?]” means). A much stronger player might well have tricked you out of it, but you were about 40 points ahead, as the computer shows (“W+35.9”), when they resigned.
What is good about your position:
- You had all your stones connected, or very nearly so.
- You destroyed their invasion of your upper left corner.
- You took control of the bottom of the board.
- You closed them into a small pocket in the upper right, and a somewhat bigger one below it.
Your posts are good enough!
Do not worry: your posts are good enough to understand; I just wondered if the possibility to quote might help you.
Considering your difficulties, you are posting well enough: do not be too hard on yourself.
Thank-you!
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iam afraid that game was kind of a gimme he or she really didn’t have any plan at all and was just throwing their stones on the board willy nilly and was taking very little time for each move.
it was good to win— but i wish they didn’t play like i do
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If you beat someone who plays the way you used to, you were playing better than you used to. I am sure you have plenty of room for more improvement.
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i guess that was my point i must at least a little getting better and no to the ney sayers here, iam looking for a pat on the back - just stating what i think is the way iam making inroads in this game be it a very very trickle instead of a river
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in a couple of days raising my goal, to 120 moves but keeping it at 10 stones of my to be captured before i reach my goal maybe even tomorow if things go well today
I see you disabled the submit-move button again. I assume that makes sense.
Any ambitions already to take on the rules of Go at some point?
i only did that on my quick less than 5 min games all of my long games have that turned on
after a few setbacks more than few but still alot,going to 120 moves ar the loss of 10 stones i have gone back to 115 moves again hopefully things will improve this week so i can push onward and up ward and get back to 120 moves adn 10 stone loss
Try not playing stones that you can’t connect back to your other groups:
Instead you should have been reinforcing the big groups on the left and right.
I really think that if you try to only play stones close to your other stones, you will easily achieve your goal almost every time.
And then hopefully you can move on to the more normal goal of trying to win.
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yes that was a really badly played game on my part i was trying to gain some territory instead of strenghting my playing chains then i switched back to my old play causing a complete failure ,nothing new for me but thanks for the input on my bad play have agreat day
i was wondering how other beginners deal with constant loss many i know have never won a game
i can’t say i have never won a game, but really, a couple of them were hand me pity type games were they let me win and another was i wore the opponent down, and he quit so really, i too have never truly won an outright game wondering what the scale of these beginners is? i have for three months never won a out right 13x13 game though most times with my lesser game goals of 115 moves before ten stones are captured leaves me resigning more than i should but thats a different story so please let me know your story how long between wins i love to hear from you, to see what fellow beginneers are proceeding in their go journey
if 2 beginners who never won will play with each other, one of them will win
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And you are still with us. My compliments.
I see that you play a lot of fellow 20-something kyus, which is good.
Now you should start to wim games, sooner or later (preferably sooner).
In the OGS Learn to play section there are hundreds of very simple exercises (not really go problems) that may help you do the basic shapes correctly.
I am now also entering these exercises in the Problems section (which is just a bit more user friendly).
Here is the link.
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You have won 48 games on 9x9 and 13x13.
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My own example: As a noob on KGS in 2005, I won 2 and lost 2 of my first 4 games: KGS Game Archives
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as i said i don’t consider 9x9 as games played —only 13x13 and 19x19 are go games– please then look at my stats then as i have stated only a few games won but not real wins just gimmes as they say and a few more i see now d/c types with the rest abandoments they really don’t count either