I didn't like the idea of Black sliding there, and putting pressure on forcing me to live a tiny life in the corner while Black would get a bunch of territory on the other side. Plus, I thought I'd be able to play under the Black stones later, reducing them much more.
I thought it was much bigger. Not only do I kill the stone, I prevent Black from splitting me at the top.
wasn't enough.
, I seemed to be particularly behind. But as we saw from the previous game I posted, if I don't do anything, Black is going to get a big moyo anyway. 
: You could consider something like L17. You have room to make an extension on either side, and Black won't get full use of his wall.
: Usually if you go into this it is because you have some support to your left, otherwise you jump into the 3-3.
: This is really unidiomatic. Black has a jump connection that you could conceivably cut far in the future, depending on how things develop. Instead you force him to make it rock-solid and give yourself a single 3-liberty stone attached to his 7-liberty proto-wall like a barnacle. D7 isn't going to be part of an eye or help capture anything. You'd almost rather pass.
, To be grossly generalistic, you have around 10 in the upper left and 57 at the bottom + komi = 73. Black has around 16 at the top, 36 on the right, and 25 on the left = 77. So you're quite close and you don't need to panic. Note also that you have a monkey jump on the left so it's not as big as it looks. A stronger player than me would have to tell you the best move but one that occurs to me is P6, one of those "boundary between two moyos" plays.
: Doesn't G16 give you a second eye too? Fedya wrote:Thinking about dfan's comments, one of the things I know I have trouble with is understanding joseki. I know you're not just supposed to memorize joseki, you're supposed to know why the moves are good. And that's where I struggle. Figuring out which joseki to choose to go well with the other corners of the board is one of those things that feels like an utter mystery to me most of the time.
The O-17 approach was questionable. You should have played a wedge instead.Fedya wrote:I think it's time to post another game. I won, which was a pleasant surprise since every time I tried to count I got the impression I was behind. (Considering that I had White and won by less than komi, I probably did have less territory on the board every time I tried to count.)
More importantly, this looks to me like another of those games where my attempt to deal with my opponent's big moyo resulted in my getting weak groups, while my opponent had no difficulty finding the weak points in my moyo. Specifically, D7 was a problem even though the group lived, and I thought I got a bad result out of the O17 approach.
, to which I play 
, problem solved! In an actual game I would probably stop here