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- This feels very good to me - it's the last big fuseki move 
(ok, P4 is still left and is pretty big too, but it's a moyo game, and now White has now good invasion point).
- Often not sente, as Black cannot be killed with the next move. However, it makes wB12 very sente so it's probably worth responding to.
- This is a weak point in White's shape, so I'm not convinced it's overplay, certainly not now Black's alive in the corner. However, P4 looks pretty huge if you're both going to play moyos
- Feels odd, but does activate corner aji. 
at D10 feels devastating somehow though, so I'd take D10 instead.
- Nice, miai of living or jumping out.
- Consistent, sealing in can't be bad.
- Why not just connect with A11 and be done with it locally?
- Oops! F9 feels like the only move somehow.
- I'd take D10 here, and aim for H10. That's at least a good return if the corner doesn't die (which I can't read out!)
- Black is very happy to be forced to play here.
- Should be C7.
- Wrong side, you are strong on this side already.
- Heavy, Black can still cut easily. wN10 much safer. wO12 may be possible, but is still cuttable, so could become dead or heavy very easily.
- I'd take P4. That way, P9 cut becomes very active. - Way too small, and now you are heavy. O7 appeals. Something to connect anyway.
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- This all helps Black enormously, without making life. :w128: is haunting White now.
- bM10 seems better if you really want to attack White, bL10 if you don't think you can. I don't think this thin-ness helps Black at all.
- Don't go fishing when your house is on fire I do not understand this comment. The sequence up totopazg wrote:- Often not sente, as Black cannot be killed with the next move. However, it makes wB12 very sente so it's probably worth responding to.
is simply a well-known gote sequence for White.My feeling is that the whole action on the left side is just a pointless quibble. The important points are on the right side, O13 and P4.
Either that, or White has to follow up with capturing immediately. Since that lets Black destroy the white shape at F8, I do not like this option, but White could then simply play D2 and hope that he can use his thickness to sufficiently reduce the black prospects on the right and lower side.
H10 is worthless then. You could play H9, but that is also quite slow. I like O13. Nevertheless, D10 is a good option to keep in mind. I think that I would capture the ko at D8, but then protect the corner after E5 (with D3). If Black captures back the ko then, White can play D10.
I am not sure about this. The trade resulting from the ko seems almost even to me.
is too heavy. White is completely misassessing the balance of strength in this part of the board. It would be better to stay light, e.g. with M5.
is an overplay. White needs to strengthen his groups on the right by connecting them, e.g. with O7. White seems to entertain the idea that he is behind, but he is not.
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seems completely oblivious to the fact that only living stones can reduce territory. This is really a losing move. It is not small, it has a large negative value. Game over, if I may say so.Gote seems very big here.Harleqin wrote:I do not understand this comment. The sequence up to
can be omitted to take a larger point elsewhere surely?It feels like Black's sort of committed himself once he gets a big group though. It's a severe loss to lose it on a tenuki - hard to count the trade for me. Certainly O13 and P4 seem huge.Harleqin wrote:My feeling is that the whole action on the left side is just a pointless quibble. The important points are on the right side, O13 and P4.
Hmmm. Agreed, H10 is not big enough. I'd still take at D10, but the idea of taking, protecting, and saving D10 is neat.Harleqin wrote:H10 is worthless then. You could play H9, but that is also quite slow. I like O13. Nevertheless, D10 is a good option to keep in mind. I think that I would capture the ko at D8, but then protect the corner after E5 (with D3). If Black captures back the ko then, White can play D10.
I'm not sure if it should have been though. The ko seems hard for Black if White simply responds to the top contact. White still has local ko threats.Harleqin wrote:I am not sure about this. The trade resulting from the ko seems almost even to me.
you say I'm not behind. I thought if I just took care of my group, I would get gote and white would protect the upper right-- and then where are my points?), giving me time to invade the top.No, N2 does not separate when Black descends. Besides, Black is quite strong on both sides, so separating is not worth much anyway.daniel_the_smith wrote:Regarding W128, I didn't want to play it, but I thought I had to keep black separated to have a chance. I realized immediately afterwards that n2 did the same thing-- in sente. Doh!
Count.Harleqin, at
I would say that you would have miai of invading there or in the top right.Hm, now that I think about it, maybe defending would have been sente (threatening
Surely not.topazg wrote:
White must fix the shape. Imagine Black pushing out otherwise.Looking at it again, I agree that Black should not play the ko but let White live instead.I'm not sure if it should have been though. The ko seems hard for Black if White simply responds to the top contact. White still has local ko threats.Harleqin wrote:I am not sure about this. The trade resulting from the ko seems almost even to me.
Harleqin wrote:Surely not.topazg wrote:
all along, I'll update my post 
I actually did count. Maybe I did it wrong.Harleqin wrote:Count.daniel_the_smith wrote: Harleqin, at
is wrong. that is what i call filling dame move.