The Intrepid wrote:This game's exciting! ... and to think opex was almost ready to throw in the towel at one point. Never give up, never surrender!
There is a problem for Black here. Black intends to cut White if White tenukis. However, cutting takes away liberties from his own group on the right, potentially leading to a huge ko fight:$$Bc
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did you also have (a) Q15 in mind ?
So answering the cut looks urgent and your edit - suggested
looks promising, but i think black made it.edit:
oops i misinterpreted your post. It's just that black*s cut ends gote.
elsewhere
and b to search life locally, a to connect, so it seems impossible to kill him here. Thus i'd like to start grabbing territory, but an obvious move 
forces me to connect d and pokes into the territory. So letting him connect doesn't seem good. Therefore, i choose to deny him a, so that i'm connected and more or less safe, and he needs to find ways to live locally. Of course, his group will try to break out here and there... I was thinking about ways to prevent these break-outs while allowing him to connect, but i didn't find anything satisfactory: he still has ways to enter my territory. So at last it seems i'll still be behind...
