Kirby wrote:
For Game4, I thought your opening was pretty good. I really like Stephanie's comment for 
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In the opening, white made a decent and pretty efficient formation on the right side. If you cap and attack his group, you get power in the center, and it keeps the right side from getting big.
Where the SGF file ends, it looks like white has some potential in the right/center. Outside of this, white's only sizable territory is in the bottom left, and you have 3 big corners... I think if you can attack with cap and reduce the right (for example, maybe R8 will work in the future), game will be in your favor.
.In the opening, white made a decent and pretty efficient formation on the right side. If you cap and attack his group, you get power in the center, and it keeps the right side from getting big.
Where the SGF file ends, it looks like white has some potential in the right/center. Outside of this, white's only sizable territory is in the bottom left, and you have 3 big corners... I think if you can attack with
cap and reduce the right (for example, maybe R8 will work in the future), game will be in your favor.Let me second the idea of capping the White group. Such a cap is called topping the tree. It is bigger than it looks. Black can attack the White group and build up strength in the center. Then he can reduce the right side or invade the top side, or both.
Black will have a winnable game.
was to erase white's potential through attacking (because I couldn't see a way to do it directly). So skipping that cap also represented a change in a viable plan.
makes more sense when white didn't play E2 (e.g. when white played G3 instead). That's because E7 aims for black to be able to play E2 - it's more efficient than if black stone were at E6.
, I want to continue attacking with F4. But I can see your apprehension about being cut. So maybe you can first play C8 crosscut, aiming to fix the cut in sente. Then you can play F4 with that sente. Since white ignored you, I want to punish him.