Debated between this and the G10 cap. Still not sure which is better. I'm not so good at these sedentary situations, really hope a fight breaks out soon. My judgement of the relative value of moves isn't really very sharp unless there are clearly urgent moves on the board.

My feeling is that we are slightly behind because we got those extra stones to worry about without any attack on either black group to show for it (I also feel that jumping in to that 3 space gap was too early). I wonder if the honte thing to do is to play something around that area. However, I think this approach is also very big, and things if destabilize a little it plays more to my strengths.

Aph is only marginaly below me in skill. I don't know if I'll have the balls to change ay of hi moves ... we'll see ...

I hate being submissive, but I think we have to. Thinking ahead... gosh, I really want C17, but I guess it's verboten. I figure with all four corners W will really have to kill E10 (or get an improbably large center) to win. My general strategic thinking at this point in the game goes like this: "can I lean on the second weakest group for three or four turns and then start trying to kill the weakest group?" So I keep looking at J5 (the crutch) and P10 (the victim), and it doesn't seem all that likely. Let's say I played K7... the threat is very weak. I can't realistically cut J5 from G8, although I might be able to get G10 in sente. And even if W replies to K8, there's no real follow-up leaning to be done (ideally, you want to lean somewhere where the opponent has to keep playing and playing to make his move consistent), so we don't have a lot of central strength, which means the group is going to live easily. And that means that our most likely gain from the attack is stones on the 12th row, chasing W. And that looks pretty useless to me, except maybe as a springboard to invade at M17. Maybe I should try to get M12 and L12, and then let W decide which side he wants to defend...?

Really, it doesn't look to me like there are a ton of points to be had on this board. I want C17.

Maybe I can start with G6; if he defends below, I get G10 in sente and might make some territory on the side, if he moves G8 out I can attack below.