151. Shadonra vs. illluck

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Re: 151. Shadonra vs. illluck

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I feel like the shoulder hit was a waste and black has a decent advantage now.
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Re: 151. Shadonra vs. illluck

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Again as expected. Seems like we have similar judgements :)

Right now I am not really concerned about reading exact variations. It just feels like jumping out is important, and I don't see any immediate local refutations to this (though later there's some annoying cut aji). Running out puts some pressure on his two stones below. I feel like ignore his response (if he strengthens those two stones) to play something around top.
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I wonder what you want. Is it sente to reduce, or do you want to attack me?
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I'm torn between responding and not responding. I ended up deciding to respond because if I were to hane and black extends, then I leave a better local result before I tenuki. So therefore if I am sure that black will respond to the hane then responding is strictly better than not responding (alpha-beta pruning? :p).

Then it's a question of whether I want to hane or extend. Normally extend is better, but since I want to tenuki after I don't want to leave more options for black (O3 aji annoying). So I will hane.

Black will either extend or tenuki. It feels to me that allowing me to atari at Q7 is too much, so I expect the extension.
Edit: Opps, presumably I should actually post my response XD
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Re: 151. Shadonra vs. illluck

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Hey, you did mean to play a stone, right (Guessing from your comment) ?
Someday I want to be strong enough to earn KGS[-].
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Re: 151. Shadonra vs. illluck

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illluck doesn't seem to be playing well at all, I think he has played better against me on OGS.
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Re: 151. Shadonra vs. illluck

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Ok.
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Mmm, I keep contradicting my previous posts by not playing tenuki. This indecisiveness is probably not a good sign :p

I want to consider this is a sort of a probe - if black plays a bamboo joint I'll play from the bottom and try to force black to run out (strengths my weak group in the process). If black plays the tiger's mouth I will tenuki and leave the second-line hane in reserve.

Edit: Actually, perhaps if he plays bamboo I should not play from the bottom, but rather from the right-side. Playing from bottom feels a bit risky as he can attack my weak group on a large scale.
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Good shape never did no one no good.
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I hope to strengthen the group in sente so that I can play on the top. I am not sure how to deal with the top yet, so I'll see if I can push black's group around a bit (probably not much because it's actually quite strong) and if I can strengthen my weak group by enough so I can play more deeply on the top (at c, for example, rather than a/b).
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Not much to be said, I'd rather keep the two stones. Black can cut my right side group off from the bottom, but then my bottom becomes rather stronger.
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Sorry for the wait, I've been busy the last few days.
Try as I might, I can't read a way to survive if I tenuki to the top (where I'd like to fix some weaknesses). So I have to play this.
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No worries, take your time :)
the weakness in my lower right is a bit worrisome, but I think I need to continue strengthening my group and see if I can play K3 in sente in a bit (but top seems more urgent).
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Re: 151. Shadonra vs. illluck

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