I think that skydyr meant extend to O10 with 51.

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Yes, I got sidetracked with EdLee's suggestion sorry. The proverb *is* "save the cutting stones". During the game I was worried my stones would be thin and I had a potentially attackable dragon. Is this obviously not so?

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Just so. Perhaps I should have been more specific.

In a rush of kiai/blood to the balls I want to play here. If you get the sente squeeze a kill of 3-3 looks plausible. And at a glance trades look ok too. But mainly it's about thumbing noses.

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My opponent trash talked me during this game, and it worked I guess: (I was black)

I'm a little defensive because I may have lost a fight =_= But then my opponent gave up a ko and I played a small endgame tenuki instead of following up my ko threat, so I was not on top form.

Interesting case where Hirabot 2d forgot how to play:

Specifically what I guess happened is that hirabot didn't understand the L&D top right, and went into "give up points because I've won" mode.

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