Life In 19x19

as previously explained...
(keeping my fingers crossed, and hope he falls for the trick)

I guess his hidden move is somewhere around here, at a or b maybe, or at the point that I just played.

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[go]$$Bcm1 Score - B:4, W:15
$$ +-----------------------+
$$ | . . . . . p . . . . . |
$$ | . . X O X . . a . . . |
$$ | . X X O X X O X b . . |
$$ | X O X X O . B O X . . |
$$ | . O O X O . . . . . . |
$$ | X O . O O , . . . . p |
$$ | O . . . O . . . . . . |
$$ | . O . O . . . X . . . |
$$ | . . O O . . . . m . . |
$$ | . . . . . . . . . . . |
$$ | . . . . . p . . . . . |
$$ +-----------------------+[/go]

I don't know, but I don't think wasting a scan here will help. If he captures one stone now, I'm not in big trouble as far as I can see. He'll ruin some of my corner territory, but that's okay as a trade for revealing his hidden stone. He'll have to play on the minus zone too...

too bad. now i need to defend this stone to avoid giving away a ponuki in the center

I don't really know what was going on. but extending here seems very big.
it creates a lot of aji.

expected variation:

I don't know where his hidden stone is and if I weren't behind I would have used a scan now to check J10. Because that would really hurt my group. But since J10 seems like a weird place for his hidden stone, I'm just going to play naturally and wait for his response.

I might try to play this sequence:

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[go]$$Wcm1 Score - B:7, W:17
$$ +-----------------------+
$$ | . . . . . 1 . . . . . |
$$ | . . X O X . O B . . . |
$$ | . X X O X X O X m . . |
$$ | X O X X O 5 X O X . . |
$$ | . O O X O . 3 O X . . |
$$ | X O . O O , . . . . p |
$$ | O . . . O . . . 2 . . |
$$ | . O . O . . . X . . . |
$$ | . . O O . 4 . . m . . |
$$ | . . . . . . . . . . . |
$$ | . . . . . 6 . . . . . |
$$ +-----------------------+[/go]

this might be slightly better for black then my previous thought

now I expect the following:

My hidden move is still in the game so that might be interesting.
So fas however, black is playing like it is not there at all
I had hoped he would play more cautiously.

capturing this seems huge. Now the top plus point is sente for me as well.
I'm quite confident now that I will win this game.

Risky, but I don't want to waste points. If I capture the two stones now, because I'm afraid of his hidden move, then I will lose by a few points according to my count.

wow. I expected him to play the top plus point. that would get him 5 extra points and I would not be able to play H11 endgame anymore. the difference would be around 13 points. I do not think the move he made now is 13 points. As a bonus I also get to keep sente. If he ignores yet again his whole corner dies.

the score is 8-25 so far. black needs to win by more than 17 points on the board now. That looks very very hard.

assuming he does defend now, I expect the following:

Gotta capture now or else:

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[go]$$Wcm1 Score - B:9, W:23
$$ +-----------------------+
$$ | . . . 1 . O . . . . . |
$$ | . . X W X . O X . . . |
$$ | . X X W X X O X m . . |
$$ | X O X X O O . O X . . |
$$ | . O O X O . O O X . . |
$$ | X O . O O , . . . . p |
$$ | O . . . O . . . X . . |
$$ | . O . O . . . X . . . |
$$ | . . O O . X . . m . . |
$$ | . . . . . . . . . . . |
$$ | . . . . . p . . . . . |
$$ +-----------------------+[/go]

I decided to leave the top right for now, and first see what I can do in the bottom right.

after the the risk of my hidden move being discovered is getting bigger and bigger, but I hope to be able to get an advantage with it and avoid having to give black the whole bottom right of the board.

Naturally! Although I'm still wondering where his hidden move might be...

Game Over

I expect a resignation soon.

after that rather arrogant "analysis" in the other hide tag I really hope that I did not overlook something stupid. (would not be the first time that happened)