Life In 19x19

Why stipulate wanting to err on the side of playing slow? Not that it's a problem, that's mostly what I like to do.

Also, I like those time settings. Want to play? (This is definitely not just because I lost ridiculously in an automatch against you ages ago).

My opponent trash talked me during this game, and it worked I guess: (I was black)
http://lifein19x19.com/forum/download/file.php?id=6548
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 ...

Just for the board being analysed, my intuition is G4 but on reflection I want to play Q2.

Do you have a sense of your tsumego interacting with your over-the-board decisions?

Yeah it's a shape there at least. Which cap? O15 seems like it would be bad shape. I think the jump is quite robust light shape. (Database search suggests tenuki or pincer or something instead normally, so my move is quite conservative).

I can understand not wanting to let white start a double approach, I think was a good place to play E16 (in what way is white's sente).

For the game , did you consider R7?

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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?

On some level I appreciate that I played soft here somewhere, but I have a lot of trouble seeing it.

After black top is more secure as points. I thought was an overplay, though I think I missed playing good sente when I tenukied to top left.
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So my question is, in this case was it safer to attack white on the right v. building top and reducing left? I suspect both white and I were counting ourselves ahead around this point.

The reason I never saved N10 was that I wanted to secure a big top like white already had a big left. My original plan for was to split the still kind of unsettled top right, potentially heavy right and hopefully bottom right. I got cold feet because if somehow the fight went well for white and ...

I tenuously still exist.

I seem to be able to play still (I'm black):
http://lifein19x19.com/forum/download/file.php?id=6421

Black getting 10 points bottom left in sente was too good.

I think white became slack around 50 and should have looked for trouble to use all the thickness, though the ...

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Oh, yes, sorry, the implicit and made it slightly unclear to me, also because was gote it shouldn't be implicitly played? What does 7... connect revert to? Wait, I will make some coffee, and hopefully begin reading sensibly.

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