We are essentially finished over in the lower right.
Sure, now that he has strengthened himself, there is some aji in his favor: He can capture one of my stones if he wants to.
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For this he gets several points, and I get a stronger group facing northward to work with my tengen and star point stones. That's fine with me if he does it. ( But he probably won't do it anytime soon. )
So we can get back to the unresolved issues in the center / lower left, where he most recently played.
His G5 group is an odd one. I can't figure out what he intends to do with it. He doesn't have much of an opportunity to the south, for I have groups on both sides and can push in.
He can't do much going eastward, for my L4 stone is backed up by a wall in the lower right.
Hs best opportunities seem to be north or west.
If he gets a little stronger with another tobi, he can then use it for a base to invade my framework in the lower right.
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That looks way too good for him, so I would like to cap him like this:
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...so that if my L4 stone becomes stronger in a fight, it becomes a serious threat to kill him.
The other direction that he would like to go - primarily for tactical reasons - is westward.
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This strands my C9 stone ( he may be strong enough to prevent it's connection to the tengen stone. ) and eliminates most of my potential for making territory on the left. It may even turn small gote moves like 'a' into sente.
So I could play the solid but unenterprising move like D7 ( I can hear Kajiwara's ghost groaning 'Yesss... do it... it... isss the... proper m... move." )
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But it is so passive. I've got a substantial advantage in stones in the lower side of the board, and I want to use it rather than letting it evaporate. ( And that groaning may just be an auditory halucination. )
So I want to prevent his play to both the north and the west. The shoulder hit does it. It also improves my grip on left side territory.
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What I expect next is for him to get some eye space by pushing against me like this:
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...or this:
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...either of which is fine with me because I get territory and it saves me the trouble of going back to terminate the O3 aji in gote.
Or he could try to fight his way out with C6. It gets bloody and complicated, and some lines do appear to allow him to live small, but at the cost of giving me more influence facing northward and eastward.
I won't even try to show those lines here, for I don't really know what is best. But the general flow seems to favor me.