Hello Steeamians !
Today is a day where I review my Go game, here is one that I played today. I wanted to improve myself and gain at least the rank 9kyu in order to be a simple digit kyu player. I hope you'll enjoy this game !
Just know that this game is simply amazing ! If you like strategy game like chess, it's even a better game, simpler but deeper.
I made a post with the basic rules, you can find it here.
So I really encourage you to check out the game and here are more links that could help :
A site where you can easily play.
An amazing Youtube channel
Some playlists for beginner (FR)
A playlist for beginner (EN)
Now, back to the game !
This game I'm black and I played against a 9kyu player. Let me tell you right away, this game was awful, I feel like I was behind the whole game. Anyway, I started with a Chinese opening and then I approached his bottom left corner.
He pincered me with H3, I jumped out and enclosed him in the corner. Then he played O17 but I didn't respond to him, I wanted to play the shape point on C2 !
I did that but it was pointless, I just reinforce his corner and weakened my wall. Look at the result for me. After that fail, I decided to approach his upper left corner, trying to build a horizontal wall and by so, create a big area for me on the left.
That plan fail too as he played C10 in the middle of what I was trying to build. Then, I saw his weak group in the bottom so I attacked it and built some point with N3.
Here is why this game was awful, this is my third mistake as I let him cut myself by playing F4. He is now perfectly alive everywhere and I have a weak group that I'm trying to save with F8.
We did some trade in the upper left corner and by doing so, I expected to attack his left group with my brand new strength !
Once again, my plan failed and he lived without any problem. At this point, I was ready to surrender but as I wanted to post this game, I would have been too short so I kept fighting.
Now comes a great moment for me as he tried to reduce my bottom left corner. Thing went pretty good for me and I ended up with a huge corner. I was starting to believe in the game again.
After that, to save his group, he tried to kill mine but I managed to get enough space to live. During this whole sequence, I totally lost my upper right corner but I just didn't find time to save it.
After that, there is not much left except the center so I tried to get a good part of it. I saw that as my only hope to defeat him, if I manage to get a big center, I may win (that's what I was saying to myself).
After that, we played a lot of end game move, I wasn't happy with what I get in the middle and I thought that I'll lose this game. Then, I saw something and J3 is the beginning of what I saw. I was thinking, that's it ! It's my comeback ! The only problem is that my plan is a trap and if my opponent read carefully, he'll not fall in.
He didn't saw it, with that mistake, I take back to life my three stones, kill a lot of white stone and also kill the white group near L2. That's a win !
After that game, I looked how bad would I lose if my plan didn't work. Actually, is was closer than I expected as my opponent would only wins by 1,5 point !
I hope you enjoyed this little game review, tell me in the comment what do you think about this content.
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Check out another of my Go review here.
See you tomorrow !