Problems and experience build confidence and make you a better player. As you root yourself in the fundamentals and rely on your own abilities, you get a certain sense of how the game will progress if you play somewhere. It's important in a game to keep your confidence up and keep your sense of the game optimistic. I think I'm slightly behind right now, but I have a lot of aji and a lot of chances left to come right back into the game. I imagine Magicwand is also quite confident of his victory. It's this optimism that guides positive moves and more variation, I feel.

It is aji keshi. Once Black has connected, other threats, such as atari on one of the other stones, disappear.

It loses a ko threat.

Because is worth more than . This has a lot to do with the fact that is worth about zero points, but also, Black now can never face damezumari or atari involving G6 or F7. For example, White's attacking move at G8 has lost some of its vigour because of this.

Thanks for both your answers.

It's really difficult to distinguish good forcing moves and bad ones
I'll hunt oher examples in the game

i must've been drunk. my hanne is ok to play. that was good sleep i had...

something like below.. i would have about 15 point lead at least. (guesstimation)

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[go]$$Wc move # I don't care either. - Prisoners: B=0, W=0
$$ ---------------------------------------
$$ | . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
$$ | . . O . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
$$ | . . X O . . 5 6 . . . . . . . . . . . |
$$ | . . X , O O 4 7 . , . . . . . X . . . |
$$ | . . . X X X 8 . . . . . . . . . . . . |
$$ | . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
$$ | . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
$$ | . . . O . 3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
$$ | . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
$$ | . . . , . . . . . , . . . . . , . . . |
$$ | . . B 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
$$ | . . O X . . . . O . . X . . . . O . . |
$$ | . . 1 . . X . . . O . . . . . . . . . |
$$ | . . . O . . X . O X X . . . . . X O . |
$$ | . O . . . X O O . . . . . X . . X O . |
$$ | . . O , X . . . . X . . . . . X O . . |
$$ | . O X X . . O . . . . . . O X X O . . |
$$ | . . . . . . . . . . . . . . X O O . . |
$$ | . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
$$ ---------------------------------------[/go]

The place to fight is here.

at first i was afraid he might play as such.
later i read again..he has nothing.

My sealed move is c10...looks like a biig ko

I agree that this is what is going to happen. I just fear that Violence isn't going to have enough ko threats, and the game might end abruptly.

Could someone please show that Ko? I just cannot find it ...

if black descends, white also descends, and black becomes weak. So I think black must counter-atari at c7, and white must capture, and black must atari at b9, and i don't think white has time to connect, so white must counter-atari as well and fight the ko.

i will settle with below picture. one thing good about being ahead is that you have too many options. and you can have subpar result and be satisfied.

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[go]$$Wc move # I don't care either. - Prisoners: B=0, W=0
$$ ---------------------------------------
$$ | . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
$$ | . . O . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
$$ | . . X O . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
$$ | . . X , O O . . . , . . . . . X . . . |
$$ | . . . X X X . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
$$ | . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
$$ | . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
$$ | . . 0 O . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
$$ | . . 4 8 9 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
$$ | . 5 O 2 7 . . . . , . . . . . , . . . |
$$ | . B X O 3 6 . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
$$ | . 1 O X X . . . O . . X . . . . O . . |
$$ | . . . . . X . a b O . . . . . . . . . |
$$ | . . . O . . X . O X X . . . . . X O . |
$$ | . O . . . X O O . . . . . X . . X O . |
$$ | . . O , X . . . . X . . . . . X O . . |
$$ | . O X X . . O . . . . . . O X X O . . |
$$ | . . . . . . . . . . . . . . X O O . . |
$$ | . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
$$ ---------------------------------------[/go]

Just for to make it more explicit, I have put it here into Eidogo. Notice that if White cannot fight the Ko because he does not have the threats, he can also connect (like shown). Well, now Magicwand played something else, anyway ...