I really thought I posted this last night, but here it sits in the post editor... Anyway, a couple of these moves have already been talked about by my teammates but I'll leave my original comments from yesterday.
I was really expecting white to play a:
My first thought is to just finish the sequence with a move around a or b here, but I'm having to really fight the urge to pick a fight with x... It seems like it gets messy fast, and I'm not 100% sure we'll come out favorably or even equal in all the variations. Also, playing x now eliminates the aji around y later should we eventually end up with a strong position on the left.
Both a and b seem to support invading the top right corner soon. I'm also thinking c might be a good way to threaten white's base on the left and push them out toward tengen while making a position of our own on the left. And we could always take the remaining corner at d. So many options! I'm not committing to anything until tomorrow.
Well, it is tomorrow now. I kind of want to second SinK's move (my 'c'), but in the interest of giving more choices to our captain I'll nominate my 'b':
This is similar to lesenv's suggestion, but one space closer to our group. This closer extension is more difficult for white to harass. It also prepares for the followups at e or f. I expect white to invest another move on the left, but not sure what. If they go ahead and take the last corner we can easily invade the left, and if they play along the side we get to play first in the corner. w10 means we won't get much territory on the top because they can monkey jump underneath which is why I chose a high extension instead of low, in order to create more influence to work with tengen.
The 3-point jump on the fourth line allows white to jump right in the middle and make things difficult, so I do not prefer it to the 2-space jump. Granted that the marked stones might make this more difficult on white than if they weren't there, but it's still enough to make me want to play a safer move:
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I was really expecting white to play a:
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My first thought is to just finish the sequence with a move around a or b here, but I'm having to really fight the urge to pick a fight with x... It seems like it gets messy fast, and I'm not 100% sure we'll come out favorably or even equal in all the variations. Also, playing x now eliminates the aji around y later should we eventually end up with a strong position on the left.
Both a and b seem to support invading the top right corner soon. I'm also thinking c might be a good way to threaten white's base on the left and push them out toward tengen while making a position of our own on the left. And we could always take the remaining corner at d. So many options! I'm not committing to anything until tomorrow.
$$Bcm9 Prisoner Count: B-0 W-0
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Well, it is tomorrow now. I kind of want to second SinK's move (my 'c'), but in the interest of giving more choices to our captain I'll nominate my 'b':
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This is similar to lesenv's suggestion, but one space closer to our group. This closer extension is more difficult for white to harass. It also prepares for the followups at e or f. I expect white to invest another move on the left, but not sure what. If they go ahead and take the last corner we can easily invade the left, and if they play along the side we get to play first in the corner. w10 means we won't get much territory on the top because they can monkey jump underneath which is why I chose a high extension instead of low, in order to create more influence to work with tengen.
The 3-point jump on the fourth line allows white to jump right in the middle and make things difficult, so I do not prefer it to the 2-space jump. Granted that the marked stones might make this more difficult on white than if they weren't there, but it's still enough to make me want to play a safer move:
$$Bcm9 Prisoner Count: B-0 W-0
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is the only point black can attack and something like this could be the continuation.
protects against the cut's and we have some stones on the outside. If we atari from underneath we either end up with a lot of cutting points or getting sealed in again.