DDK travails 3
Next game was against an old opponent from Poland, at this point I was 2 wins versus 1 loss against them and they were always close. I wanted Black so naturally got white, The opening went fairly 'meh' though I netted 3 stones on the right which was nice. Lessons to learn this game included this dubious extension here. I should have han'ed and increased both my territory and threatened the 2 lonely right stones. As it was playing this way allowed Black to keep me hemmed into the top - not so good. 2nd improvement occurred here. I am 'trying' (and this being a very loose definition of trying as I keep getting too involved in the game and forgetting) to ask myself 'what is my opponent trying to do? and 'do i care and if so can I stop it?' So when this move occurred. 'What's my opponent trying to do?' - well to allow the H stone to spring into life soaking up 5 or so points. Now I might not care but actually ignored what they were doing and...
