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1d player from Bloomington, Indiana, playing since January 2006. I play as hongmao on KGS, currently 2k there but winning at least 75% of the games I play - I get ahead in the opening and lose the game by trying too hard to punish. I need to learn more patience to get past chuduan (shodan), I think.
I love:
- 1 Good shape, which usually translates into
- 2 Thick influence, which usually results in
- 3 Killing groups or splitting attacks.
I used to love sacrifice, but I do not like to do it so much anymore - I did it too often and left my opponents too strong.
I believe a combination of tsumego and how to use thickness is the key to learning how to get stronger, but thus my play is suffering from being too heavy when invading.