I have commented this game and would appreciate some feedback. I won, but the whole game was entirely scary because of his unorthodox influence-oriented play.
"I have five liberties, so I can leave the contact fight."
This may be a recommendation from somewhere but you should read and figure this out rather than going on just proverbs. Also just because you can do something, should you do it?
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(;W[bg];B[ch];W[bh];B[ad];W[bd];B[af];W[ac];B[ae];W[bc];B[bb];W[ca];B[ba];W[da] ;B[bi]))) (;W[df]TR[eg][de]SQ[df][ef][ee]C[Basic broken shape.])) (;B[kf];W[jf];B[jc])) (;B[jf])) (;B[co])) (;B[gp]LB[im:a][jo:b][gm:c]C[At least here, but B should read all the cuts and hane.])) (;B[pp]C[B is very happy with this exchange.];W[dd]LB[po:a][pp:b]C[Just think, if you were W, would you play W (a) B (b) now? So this result is good for B, which means just blocking at (b) was good for B.]))
oren wrote:"I have five liberties, so I can leave the contact fight." This may be a recommendation from somewhere...
Exactly; that's one basic guideline from Mr. Wilcox, who also explained further that "reading and judgement supersede all proverbs and guidelines" (my paraphrase).