Hi, I was hoping someone might be able to review a recent game I played. My 19x19 account is Kye1919:
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Your game lasted 18 minutes. I think you should spend more time thinking. A few points:
- It seems that between moves 27 and 39 you tried to kill the top right corner. However that corner was alive.
- Connecting at move 67 wasn’t necessary, your opponent can’t cut
- At move 127 it seems you are trying to kill White. However White can live easily, for instance White can play K18 at any time if there is an emergency. On the other hand your group C17 is not alive yet.
- Move 141: obviously you didn’t realize that Black is a stick with 4 liberties, completely surrounded by White which has many more liberties. Without reading it’s obvious that Black is dead.
- Move 151: at your level you should be aware that a square shape with four intersections is dead.
Conclusion: your weakest point seems to be life and death.
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Thank you for the feedback!
After watching the first hundred moves, my opinion is that your intuition is not that bad but you don’t use so much reading which leads to many suboptimal moves.
You can’t play well without reading and spend some time by checking which move will be working for what you aim and to be sure that what you aim is not over optimistic too (or not necessary).
More searching, not relying on just shapes and precepts, by reading different sequences, may improve your go by a large amount.
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Yeah, I think I should maybe stick to longer time controls so I don’t feel too rushed. I should probably pick up some correspondence games as well.