Introduction

Though I would have ideally preferred these games to have come out during the month of April, I’m happy to finally feature my games from Maaike’s April’s Challenge.* This game was Game #1 for Maaike’s April’s Challenge. Though this might seem like an aggressive game, I think that I was successful in learning to curb my bloodlust and let White live instead of killing and instead taking large profit in the center. Hopefully you’ll agree. Enjoy!

*For those who haven’t read it, the basic challenge was to “get out of your comfort zone.” So for myself, I chose to try and play more calmly and territorially (however I had not yet studied Master Play: The Territorial Style of Kitani Minoru and Cho Chikun yet, so I tried to achieve it based on what I knew at the time).



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One Point Lesson

More often than not, letting a group live in gote will yield profits.