Not finished game.

[Krama]

I am playing as white (against black crazy stone) and I found myself confused. This happens in my games usually, that I simply don't have any idea how to continue.

Few moves pop into my mind however I can't calculate them well so I start looking around the board and I pretty much don't know what to do.

Any comments on how to continue? Or perhaps comments on my opening?

bad perhaps? No idea why I played this move, for some reason it seemed good.



Thank you.

[Knotwilg]

1. How do you assess the fight at the top as it stands? Would you move there now?
2. 38 is a good place to make a comment. Why did it strike you as bad when you reviewed it? What would you play instead and why?

Although there are a few comments to make about the opening, I wouldn't care too much about it. Anyway Bill and others are better placed to discuss those parts (and all parts).

Cheers

[EdLee]

- is a big move, but you allow B to connect up nicely at P5.
How about o15 kosumi first ?

Why ? P12 is a big move.

- I wonder if N13 is bigger.

Did you notice your problem at D5 ?

[Uberdude]

If you tenuki the top pincer once (unusual but I suppose ok) then fighting spirit says you should tenuki a second time too, or at least quickly try to make it so black can't cleanly get too much and then take sente to play lower right (after l17 looks a good time). If you keep on answering you will be getting hassled in a 3 against 1 fight and black will easily gain more there than the one move you got against his lower right corner.

[skydyr]

My first thought is regarding : Why tenuki? Is the bottom right really that urgent? And if the bottom right is, why not approach it first or ignore black's upper-right response?

[Krama]

I played and expected a fight at top which I did somehow manage but I thought the stone at q5 would help me if I needed to run with the top group. Also if I ended in sente I could then take a nice profit with a follow-up.

Also I about d5 black can take a part of it in gote and I don't think it is that big.. however black can get split with a tesuji if he tries to cut all of it (I sacrifice some stones) then I can split attack 2 of blacks groups at once and I thought it would be good for me.