After stopping at home and having some dinner, I made it to the SGC with enough time to play a 13×13 game before the night time maintenance window in Amarillo Texas. I think his name was Paul, or maybe kevin? Anyway, he was an unpaired 6 kyu or maybe 9 kyu. He gave me three stones on the board and managed to beat me pretty badly. I resigned once all of my groups were resolved completely. There was one spot where I missed playing at the ko, and lost a big group of perhaps 11 stones. Playing on, I failed to make life in two other border groups, and misread several situations that allowed me to fall behind.

He did review immediately after the game with me for a while, including some talk about a jump into the 3×3 on the shoulder of my handicap stone. with a stone of mine on either side, it is to his profit since he can almost certainly live, and all i can do is drive him downward along one of the sides. in the end it works out that he has nothing to lose. this means i have to make sure profit from this or plan on that issue. press down severely rather than just give it away and allow it to impact or connect elsewhere…

I thanked him for the willingness to play the smaller board and the review and left. I also signed up for the Go Juan seminar this coming weekend, and paid my tuition, Jon said that he will be sending out materials online in sgf format shortly. I hope so, there’s not much time to study them before her arrival!

**UPDATE**: got materials tonight and spent 45 minutes reviewing on my board, but have to work now. will work more and post later.