Black is playing quite well for a 10kyu kgs. Of course since this is a game in which both of us have lots of time to read the
difference in reading strength is not visible. Nevertheless black is doing great.
Howhever lets talk about positional judgment. What do you percieve this board like ?
My first responce is to be VERY afraid of being white on this board.
Black seems to have a huge moyo which can turn into a lot of points.
Howhever now that I look more objective I see that his moyo has lots of problems.
I'll get to them as I describe my next move.
Now lets look at white. White has a small moyo as well and some power on the lower right.
White's moyo is also full of problems. Because of the aji of the not so dead stones in the lower left black has lots of ways to reduce this allready small moyo of white.
That sucks

So what can we do ?
- Fix own problems (big, no more reduction from black)
- Attack blacks weaknesses. (very big but very hard to do if you have my reading skills

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- Create aji that will allow us to invade/reduce blacks moyo later. (very big but really needs to be sente so a bit risky)
So I'll try to attack blacks weaknesses and invade this way.
Maybe I can lean on the left side to attack the top:
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Howhever the left side becomes soooo strong which is bad for my own moyo.
If black now starts attacking my left side, the game will be very hard.
How about the other way around ?
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This might work but I'm not sure he will play this way.
Maybe he will just push instead:
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2 feels a bit wrong though, lets try a bit further...
Its too close to black and too many stronger players have told me not to do this.
I usualy also play with better results if I don't so I won't.
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Now a complex fight starts. I haven't read out what could happen in all the scenarios but I think I like this.
I realize this is a dangerous move because it can be cut, however I think there is plenty of aji for doing something there.
I'll play 2 and see what happens.