I thought of some less direct ways of responding, hoping to keep sente, but they all had problems. I had a whole post written up on E16, but it lets white play B15 in sente, which is a problem. Best to keep it simple. Still, I'm gonna have some pain here.

I guess E16 was better after all.

slowly it is going to show itself. the winning sequence.

I've already invested pretty heavily in the corner, and there's not much to be gained on the outside, so I'm going to protect it as territory, or at least try.

he is letting me catch him by playing passively.

I can see that immediately cutting leads to badness. This seems like the only real alternative.

This is just fear by Black. If he cuts and then descends, his corner is completely safe and the three stones are stronger than White's.

Boy, I've gotten myself in quite a fix allowing this cross-cut. This sort of fighting is exactly what I suck at.

This is what I expect.

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[go]$$B
$$ | . . . . X . . . . . . . . . . O O . . |
$$ | . . O O O . . . . . . O . O . . . . . |
$$ | . . X . . . . . . . X X . . . . O . . |
$$ | . . . X . X . . . , . . O X 2 X O . . |
$$ | . . . . . X O O . . . 1 X O 4 . X X . |
$$ | . . . . . . X . . . . . . 3 5 . . . . |
$$ | . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
$$ ---------------------------------------[/go]

Ouch! But I think that's the best I can do. If I don't extend with ...

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[go]$$B
$$ | . . . . X . . . . . . . . . . O O . . |
$$ | . . O O O . . . . . . O . O . . . . . |
$$ | . . X . . . . . . . X X 5 1 . . O . . |
$$ | . . . X . X . . . , . 6 O X . X O . . |
$$ | . . . . . X O O . . . 2 X O . . X X . |
$$ | . . . . . . X 8 . . . 4 3 7 . . . . . |
$$ | . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
$$ ---------------------------------------[/go]

I might as well roll over and die right now, rather than allow this.

I think I've dodged complete disaster and have settled for moderate disaster. I've lost 3-4 handicap stones of advantage at this point from rough guestimate.

The only source of comfort is that white has a couple weak groups still. If I can get sente, I'll look for some way to attack the upper left white group and/or the two white stones at G3 as a way to aid my left side group. B12 is a point I want to get; it prevents a connection and a white eye at the same time, while confirming my eye at C11.

More gote for me. This is terrible. Plus I have the following to look forward to.

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[go]$$W
$$ | . . . . X . . . . . . . . . . O O . . |
$$ | . . O O O . . . . . . O . O . . . . . |
$$ | . . X . . . . . . . X X . O . . O . . |
$$ | . . . X . X . . . , 2 1 O . O X O . . |
$$ | . . . . . X O O . . 3 X X O . . X X . |
$$ | . . . . . . X . . . . . . X X . . . . |
$$ | . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
$$ ---------------------------------------[/go]

I'd rather not have to give up those two stones but this looks difficult.

now i have some time to comment on this game..
my recent move is looking at "a" and "b".
i am building some influence to attack unstable group in the middle.
also if i can seal lower left corner then i can invade 3-3 point for the kill.
i think i can attack the weak group on top now and possibly kill that group.
but i also can attack by attacking somewhere else and getting influence.
one or two moves by black will not give him life so i dont have to attack directly.
black really dont have much points anywhere. i might win by points and not have to kill any group.

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[go]$$Wcm71 Prisoners - W: 2, B: 0
$$ ---------------------------------------
$$ | . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . O . . . |
$$ | . . . . . . . . . . . . . X O X X O . |
$$ | . . . . X X . . . . . . X X O X X O . |
$$ | . X X X O . . . . , . . . O X X O . . |
$$ | . . O . . . . . . . . . . O . . O . . |
$$ | . . O . O . . . . . . . . . . O . O . |
$$ | . O . X . . . . . . . . . . . . O X . |
$$ | . . X . . . . . . . . . . X . X X X . |
$$ | . X . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
$$ | . O X X . . . . . , . . . O . X . . . |
$$ | O . O . . . . . . . . . . . . . X . . |
$$ | . O . . . . . . . . . . . O X O X . . |
$$ | . . . . X . . . . . . . . . . O O . . |
$$ | . . O O O . . . . . . O . O . . . . . |
$$ | . . X . . . b . 9 . X X . O . . O . . |
$$ | . . . X . X . . . , . a O . O X O . . |
$$ | . . . . . X O O . . . X X O . . X X . |
$$ | . . . . . . X . . . . . . X X . . . . |
$$ | . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
$$ ---------------------------------------[/go]

My original plan was to attack the white group in the upper left, probably starting with B12. Hopefully, that would get me a little influence in the center which would help me attack this group. But the more I looked at my cut, the less excited I felt about that option. I keep reading out situations where I get cut off in a bad way, and I'm not sure they're the most severe thing white can do. I really feel like I need to protect here, but it feels so slow, and my shape still isn't very good. But this threatens to cut white, so I think it's sente. I just hope it's not too small.

Again this game looks like Magicwand will win it because of his opponents fear. Black lost so much in the last 5-6 moves. I believe fwiffo has a strong reading ability but the presence of magicwand seems overwhelming, which leads fwiffo to play moves that are solid, way toooooooo solid. Nobody has won a game of go with just defending moves.

Maybe magicwand has the ability to eat fightingspirits or something?