Black really must answer in the lower left corner. As white I would happily tenuki to play D4 now - black will lose more in the bottom left than white will in the bottom right. I don't really know what's happening with F4 and G4, but that area looks big too.

Never play go when in a really ugly mood. So, distraction upon distraction. Going to make a stupid gut instinct small move. I may, as I expected, lose this corner however at the moment, all reads seem to go to a simlilar point.

Yeah, I reckon black's alive once he connects. But that's fine. Play B3 and black's lower left corner probably dies. Q17 is also very big.

i am likely over reaching here. The instincts say put the 3-3 in Atari.i think the bigger move is to play along the bottom and get territory

Something about this move looks ugly to me.

In retrospect, I probably should have simply played B4. Oh well, this kind of thing happens when you try to both play Go and carry on a conversation with a 3 year old. Now if you'll excuse me, I'm going to go watch Tecia Torres videos on youtube.

split the corner, take the lower side. I figured it would be roll tis way. Better than making that star shape in the corner. What is it called?

Thought about all the following

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$$ | . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
$$ | . . . X . . . X g . O X . . d . X e . |
$$ | . . . , . . X O . O . X . . . X O . . |
$$ | . . . X . . X O . . . . . . . f O . . |
$$ | . . . . . X O . . O . X . . . . O . . |
$$ | . . . . . X O . . . . . . . . . . . . |
$$ | . . . . . . O . . O . X . . . . . . . |
$$ | . . X . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
$$ | . . . , . . . . . , X . . . . O . . . |
$$ | . . . . . . X . . . X O . . . . . . . |
$$ | . . . . . . . . . X O . . . . . . . . |
$$ | . . . . . . . . . . O . . . . . . . . |
$$ | . . . . . X . . O . . . . . . . . . . |
$$ | . . . X . . b . . . . . . . . . . . . |
$$ | . . O X . O X . . O . . . . . O O . . |
$$ | . X X O O . O . . . . . O . X c X . . |
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but I feel that c is worth the most points, followed by e. Plus, out of all the moves, I think c is the only sente move, though I'm not certain about g.

Frustrating to see how much of the corner I am going to lose. Probably equal overly ambitious playing by black and white, and punishing each other for it. Kind of a circular firing squad.

Joseki. Plus I'm pretty sure I can end this in sente, which would give me the opportunity to play something like S17.

this is getting tedious. Those are usually my last words before a big loss

He's going to play S4 or tenuki

Been wanting to play something like this for a while now.

Black is getting more tedious. Similar to a flea on a hot pan

Looking back on it, black got all three of the unsettled corners in sente. If black is going to destroy your points, you should destroy his in return, not defend passively. The lower left was of course big for both sides, because white also had a weak group there. Everywhere else is just points.

My idea here is to threaten to reduce white’s territory in sente as much as possible. I’m not expecting to get any significant points for myself with my upper right group, but I want to do some damage. This move is very much on the conservative side, but I’m ahead at this point and am concerned about overextending myself. Of course, I could shore up my own points on the left, but I don’t see a way to do so that isn’t gote.