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I finally moved some stuff from my personal page here. I'll write down whatever my senseis (or friends who want me to be stronger) tell me, and why, as soon as I get it. Hope this serves someone. Feel free to say whatever you want or correct mistakes.


21st-22nd August 2003: Little study plan:

  • Take games I've played and count. I'm unable to count properly and have to improve it.
  • Tesuji and reading stuff.
  • Playing... as soon as I can
  • Force feed LD problems and tesuji's.

19th August 2003: I lost the 2 last games, making 2 wins and 3 losses. The first was against an 11k with 9 handicap, and I lost by 6.5 moku with 0.5 komi... quite close. After that, my opponent said that it was a great game (as everybody does to everybody) and told me that I play very well in defense, and have a good attack (because I told him that I lack attacking skills) but my problem is the pace, when to attack and when to defense. Here's the diagram of one position, taken from a picture someone took while we were playing.


In the lower right corner I started a little mess trying to get the corner, and lost but I got a little more from my sides, and in the left side / center I got that living group, when it seemed that the handicap stone and another one were dead and my stones completely surrounded.

[Diagram]
Gabriel Costoya vs Rubén Berenguel


The next one was against a 6k with 9 handicap. I got literally sweeped. I missed the correct defense of a small group and he started a ko that destroyed it, because I hadn't any ko threats. I think that with this group I was also losing anyway. As always, play to connect your stones and divide white, don't get surrounded and don't overprotect.

18th August 2003: Won 2 of 3 played games of [ext] "1r torneig de go al carrer" (playing as 20k). There I met Artur Honzawa and won twice one friendly without handicap, one official and tougher where he gave me 2 stones... a really head-sicker game. I got almost all corners and sides, but he got all the center but with a few weak points. I invaded the center and eventually lived, and he made a mistake (after 30 minutes trying to kill a group... who doesn't?) and I killed maybe 15 stones... he resigned but his defense had been very tough.




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