Somewhere in all that fighting I threw away my advantage. I’d be very thankful for input!
On a different note, I never came around to installing a strong AI on my own computer. Last time I tried to install Leelazero, I didn’t understand the readme and I stopped trying
Anybody have a link to a simple download of Katago or the sorts?
Obviously not many people are qualified to review your game. I won’t attempt to do that but I did run Katago and I find this tesuji quite nice. Not sure I understand every variation though.
It’s fine, don’t worry about it. Losing games is always a bit difficult for me, especially when I try doing my best and am emotionally invested. So don’t sweat it.
I don’t know if this is helpful, since obviously it’s not about moves, techniques and such:
I think the unexpected move 4 threw you off a bit disproportionately. I got the impression that you had an eye there even when contemplating urgent moves elsewhere; maybe it was just a bad day (since you mentioned you were tired), I can’t judge so high in the ranks. You couldn’t shake the surprise, somewhat.
Even if it’s a God move, once it’s on the goban, take it for granted and keep going. It is what it is.
I have LizGoban. It’s quite intuitive and has Leela zero as well as Katago. I only used it to review games and it isn’t very different from OGS AI analysis.
Main feature for me: stone faces!
KataGo wants to touch the D6 stone all the time (with the D5 wedge or the C6 attachment or the D7 attachment) from around move 23. I suppose it wants to get some forcing moves and overconcentrate white’s strong group.
Connecting at D10 on move 127 seems to be a fairly big mistake (-3.5 points). I suppose it’s too slow.
Black needs to take care of his center group first by jumping out to H13:
As a general comment, I’d say your basic haengma is ok and you are making sensible shapes, but you are lacking when a more finessed haengma is needed. This is particularly relevant when your opponent stops overplaying with moves where the simple answer is good for you, but starts playing better moves which need better moves from you to keep level. When you’ve found a move that achieves the strategic goal you want, don’t just play it but think “is there another move that does this even better, more efficiently, better order, probe first?” Review running fighting of pro games, first thinking of what you’d play and then look what they did and compare. You sometimes need to leave a weakness to be efficient.
Thank you for your comment Uberdude. I believe that I am not incapable of finding sophisticated finesse sequences, but only given ample time. Under time pressure I tend to butcher my games - either by misreading or by playing slack moves, and so I unfortunately lack tactical awareness. I will try and work on it.
Gia and Uberdude said very well and I think two issues they mentioned, time management and loose moves in the second half of the game, reflect that currently you are less of a competitor. IMO you are more on the mathematician side.
If you want to become competitively stronger, I think it’s helpful to watch pro’s videos on them playing same level players. Losing more emotionally devoted games can help, too, but it’s painful.
Yea I should’ve explained more, since it’s my personal way of characterizing players.
So a pure competitor only cares about winning a game. They can use anything (exploiting oppo’s time, make use of oppo’s mental and style weakness) to achieve that goal. A mathematician focuses on the game itself. For a mathematician the game is solving a math question: given a position, find the best move. There might be a third type of players, the artists, who have their own aesthetics.