i guess i will go home and see if he made his move..
if he doent see that is has made a mistake then he is wrong.
i am guessing that the game is pretty close to an even game.
i rather take white if i had a choice. he lost all his handycap on the corner.

if i had to play as black i would have played ugly girl shape i discussed earlier. (i am sorry if i offended any female member in GD)

The situation is not as bad as magicwand puts it. Black has a solid corner there, and White has no real shape on the right side.

This game has not been going well for me so far. There really isn't a perfect way to break through this thickness of his, but this is the best I can do:



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He could also choose to do this:



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4 for me is painful, but at least I've broken through his wall without completly sacrificing the corner.

Before deciding on this move, I had also considered just tenukiing to below, but then he can probably patch his weaknesses in sente and be left with overwhelming influence for the rest of the game. I can't afford that.



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only one move possible

Really? I don't know.
He has quite the knack of taking profit from 'bad' moves of his opponents but playing 'good' by himself?
For me it's just stone-slamming, which works as long as you play against weaker opponents because you know, you can outfight them (okay, Alakazam played kind of 'refreshing', too, in their game).

I'd better call it a experienced bully-style =)

my prediction on what he will play. this is [B]BAD[/B] for Black. and it only gets worse....
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