Game File Review

I found that someone posted one of my games for review on the go teaching ladder. The game was reviewed from his point of view but I thought it was interesting to see. The reviewer was not impressed with this game. Truth is, neither was I in retrospect. You can download it in .sgf here.

If you want to see my original review I did of the game, the post is here.

It inspired me to send one of my games to the teaching ladder. This might be the best game of Go I have played. It isn't perfect but right now, this is as good as I get. I'm posting my questions and comments on the game along with the game file for the curious.

http://www.mediafire.com/?bzb40wrjyll

Move 8, should I have instead moved somewhere worth more points like claiming a star point on the side or fanning out the corner at R 14 like I did on his first approach?

Move 28, I don’t know what I was thinking, it just felt instinctive to attack while I had him pinned elsewhere, given a second chance, I would have played C 10 or R 10

Move 40, I should have let this battle go shouldn’t I? I wanted to go ahead and finish off and expand this corner but I think instead I should have played a bigger point

Move 66, yes I know I should have just gone to S 19, captured, and put the group on Atari; for some reason this move was just dumb enough to startle me

Move 76, I think I must have gotten bored or something, I should have pushed outward on the right side of the board towards the middle with that group

Move 94, Instead of capturing, should I have run with this group until I ran out of room and destroyed some of his territory, I allowed him to wall off quite a bit of territory by capturing

Move 106, I should have kept moving out towards the center here, it is obvious he didn’t intend to cut with his response to my last move, I could have made a bigger territory but allowed him to cut me off with this backtracking

Moves 112 & 114 I make these knights moves quite a bit when I am trying to wall off territory, is this the most effective way?

Move 130 starts the most tense ko battle I’ve ever been in, I would like your comments generally on this, by move 138 he knows I intend to capture not survive; move 174, should I have gone elsewhere? I felt the need to answer his threat at R 2 and had nowhere else I could think to go; move 178 I capture and end it, did I do right to end it or should I have answered the threat in my corner? I think I did right but sometimes I capture stones that are already dead so I want to double check…

Move 182, I should have connected at R 3 shouldn’t I? How would you have minimized this damage? I lost virtually everything here; was winning the big ko battle even worth losing this corner?

I missed a capture at E 14 that would have gained an extra point;