(;GM[1]FF[4]CA[UTF-8]AP[CGoban:3]ST[2] RU[Japanese]SZ[19]KM[7.50] GN[2016-12-29a]PW[Matt]PB[dfan]WR[3k]BR[3k]DT[2016-12-29]RE[W+2.50]CH[1] ;B[pc] ;W[pp] ;B[cd] ;W[cp] ;B[ep] ;W[eq] ;B[fq] ;W[dq] ;B[fp]C[I like playing this solid connection more than the tiger's mouth.] ;W[cn] ;B[jp]LB[nq:A]C[Played high because I wanted to follow up with A.] ;W[pe] ;B[ph]C[I don't really know the josekis resulting from this, but I felt that the same sort of joseki as in the lower left would work well for White with his lower right, and the low one-space pincer which I know better didn't feel right without more support.] ;W[mc]C[This didn't feel right; it just feels too easy for me to separate White.] ;B[nd] ;W[jd] ;B[md]C[I was happy to separate White further.] ;W[lc] ;B[qd]C[Taking the corner, making a base for my stones, and putting White's stone in a tough spot.] ;W[ec]C[Making sense of his stones at the top.] (;B[de]C[I didn't have the strength to pincer. I like this move in general, and it felt good here, with followups of making a base on the left or pressing Black at the top.] ;W[fe]C[This felt a little single-minded with so much space still open on the sides.] ;B[nq]C[I thought I could get this in in sente before returning to the top left.] ;W[qn] ;B[ci] ;W[pr]LB[no:A]TR[jp][nq]C[I often run into this when I have the marked stones. I think A is the proper response but I don't like letting White both take a big corner and get sente.] ;B[qk]TR[ph]C[Taking one of the last big points on the side. If White played in this area I might also have to worry a little about my marked stone, which is now strong. I considered extending one point further but I was concerned about an invasion.] ;W[kf]C[This again felt very single-minded.] ;B[dc]C[Big and felt like sente now that White is so committed to the territory at the top.] ;W[eb]C[I congratulated myself on my restraint and solidity here but in retrospect it is probably too timid.] (;B[qe] ;W[eg]C[I was very happy to see this, forcing me to fix my invasion weakness and take fourth-line territory.] ;B[dg] ;W[df]LB[ef:A]C[The time control was fairly fast (Fischer time of 25 minutes plus 10 seconds/move) so I didn't read out atariing from the top with A that carefully, but it looked dangerous and I felt that I should be happy enough with this.] ;B[cf] ;W[ef] ;B[cl]LB[lq:A]C[The last big mutual point on the side. I was quite happy at this point, despite expecting an invasion around A.] ;W[dh] ;B[cg] ;W[ms]LB[lq:A]C[I was expecting A. Now I didn't really know how to respond to this.] (;B[eh]C[I didn't know what to do at the bottom so I played elsewhere. This seemed like White's one weakness.] ;W[fh] ;B[ei] ;W[fi] ;B[fj]TR[dh]C[It looked like I can get away with this. I like that I have made the classical capture of the marked stone in retrospect.] ;W[gj] ;B[fk] ;W[em]C[White said that he was very afraid of me playing around here and making a lot of central territory, but I think that it is not necessarily that much and that White really has to keep up the contact fight.] (;B[gi]C[I thought that I had enough opportunities that I could make this cut right away, though in retrospect I kind of like pushing as in the variation.] ;W[ej] ;B[di] ;W[gk] (;B[fl]C[I didn't like the squeeze resulting from the hane.] ;W[ii]C[This stone felt very abstract to me. Now I did some reading and saw a nice idea to break into White's top territory.] ;B[fg] ;W[gh] ;B[gg] ;W[hh] ;B[ee] ;W[ff] ;B[fd] ;W[ge] ;B[gd] ;W[he] ;B[ed]C[I was extremely happy now.] (;W[hb] ;B[gb] ;W[hc] ;B[gc] ;W[nf] ;B[mf]LB[of:A]C[I had lots of strength here and A felt unambitious.] ;W[mg] ;B[ng] ;W[me] ;B[of] ;W[lf] ;B[nh] ;W[ob] ;B[pb] ;W[bl] ;B[ck]LB[dn:A]C[I didn't hane because I thought I was cruising to victory and didn't want to mix things up here. I also wanted to be solid because I was aiming at a cut at A, although it turns out I misread it.] ;W[bm] (;B[hd] ;W[id] ;B[dn]LB[no:A]C[Played with the same incorrect thinking as in the previous variation. But even if I were right, this is probably not so huge and I should play on the bottom, such as at A.] ;W[lq] ;B[kq]TR[nq]C[I thought I could play safely by sacrificing the marked stone and making some territory along the side.] ;W[lp] ;B[nn]TR[nq]C[The idea was to force White to capture the stone on a small scale.] ;W[no] ;B[lr] ;W[mr] ;B[kr] ;W[mq] ;B[rm] ;W[rn] ;B[gl]LB[om:A]C[This was a big mistake in retrospect. It felt like sente but White rightfully ignored it. If I play somewhere around A (although that particular spot is feels like odd shape) I should be able to just play solidly to the end.] ;W[qm] ;B[rl] ;W[nl]TR[nn]C[Urp, now I have one more stone to sacrifice.] ;B[pl] ;W[om] ;B[ln] ;W[ko]C[Three stones...] ;B[in] ;W[jm] ;B[ll] ;W[mj]C[Man, what a terrible sequence. White has made a huge amount of territory almost without trying.] ;B[pm] ;W[on] ;B[pn] ;W[po] ;B[jl] ;W[il] ;B[jn] ;W[kn] ;B[im] ;W[km] ;B[ik] ;W[kl] ;B[jk] ;W[jo] ;B[io] ;W[kp] ;B[iq] ;W[do] ;B[eo]LB[en:A]C[Luckily I had forgotten my previous "analysis" or I would have played A.] ;W[dm] ;B[en] ;W[cm] (;B[kk] ;W[lm] ;B[mk] ;W[oj] (;B[pj] ;W[er] ;B[fr] ;W[fs] ;B[gs] ;W[es] ;B[gr] ;W[ga] ;B[fa] ;W[ha] ;B[fb]C[Whoops, I don't have a play here anymore!] ;W[fm] (;B[li]C[I was very low on time at this point and was panicking. That's no excuse for playing dinky moves in the center, though.] ;W[oc] ;B[od] ;W[nk] (;B[kh] ;W[jg] ;B[bk] ;W[ak] ;B[aj] ;W[al] ;B[bj] ;W[hj] ;B[hl]LB[gn:A]C[I was worried about White pulling out that stone, but maybe I can deal with that and also the incursion on the left with A instead. I was very low on time at this point though.] ;W[ml] ;B[sn]LB[ql:A]C[I had been waiting for the liberty at A to be filled so that I could play the clamp instead, but I ran out of patience.] ;W[so] ;B[sm] ;W[ro]C[4 points in gote, I know.] (;B[lk] ;W[ql] ;B[rk] ;W[nc] ;B[ni] ;W[pa] ;B[qa] ;W[oa] ;B[qb] ;W[ol] ;B[pk] ;W[ne] ;B[oe] ;W[ld]C[I had been wating forever to play this move myself but it didn't seem like it had good followups so I was afraid that White would ignore it.] ;B[ie] ;W[hf] ;B[jh] ;W[ih] ;B[nj] ;W[ok] ;B[gn] ;W[mh] ;B[mi] ;W[el] ;B[ek] ;W[oi] ;B[pi] ;W[oh] ;B[og] ;W[ls] ;B[ks] ;W[dl] ;B[ji] ;W[lh] ;B[kg] ;W[ij] ;B[lg] ;W[mf] ;B[jj] ;W[dk] ;B[dj] ;W[fn] ;B[fo] ;W[gm] ;B[hm] ;W[dp] ;B[ic]C[Just hoping that something would magically appear. It didn't.] ;W[ib] ;B[jc] ;W[jb] ;B[jf] ;W[ig] ;B[hk] ;W[] ;B[]) (;B[nb]C[6 points in gote, I think.] ;W[nc] ;B[oa] ;W[mb] ;B[na] ;W[ma] ;B[pa])) (;B[ic]C[I spent a lot of energy during White's turns trying to make this work, but couldn't.] ;W[ib] ;B[jc] ;W[jb] ;B[kc] (;W[kb] ;B[kd] ;W[ld] ;B[ie] ;W[je] (;B[hf] ;W[if]) (;B[if] ;W[hg])) (;W[kd]C[This is enough anyway.]))) (;B[nb]C[I thought this was gote.] (;W[nc] ;B[oc] ;W[mb] ;B[oa]) (;W[oc] (;B[od] ;W[nc] ;B[oa] ;W[mb] ;B[na] ;W[ma] ;B[pa]) (;B[nc]C[I guess this works; I didn't read it out correctly at the time.] ;W[od] ;B[ne] ;W[oe] ;B[oa])))) (;B[nk]TR[mj][oj]C[I felt like I didn't have time to be sure that this cut worked. Maybe White can pull his marked stones out to the left anyway.])) (;B[ib]C[I had been looking at this clamp for a long time, but thought that it was gote rather than White's sente.] ;W[ic] ;B[ha] ;W[jb] ;B[ia] ;W[ja] ;B[ga])) (;B[dn]C[Here's the cut I was thinking of.] ;W[dm] ;B[cm] ;W[do] ;B[en] ;W[eo] ;B[fn] ;W[fo] ;B[go] ;W[gn] ;B[fm] ;W[gp] ;B[ho] ;W[gq]C[Oops.])) (;W[hc]C[It looks like this might save the White stones.] ;B[fb]C[I don't see a better capturing try than this.] ;W[fc] ;B[gc] ;W[gb] ;B[hb] ;W[fa] ;B[hd] ;W[ic])) (;B[gl] ;W[fl] ;B[ek] ;W[dk] ;B[dj] ;W[el] ;B[ej])) (;B[gk]C[I didn't see a great followup to this.] ;W[hj] ;B[hk] ;W[ij]C[But maybe I can just keep pushing a bit and then make territory in the lower center, just like White was afraid of?])) (;B[no]C[Maybe I should just do this and let White take some second-line territory. I had been prepared to give him third-line territory anyway...])) (;B[mf]TR[pe]C[Can White really use the marked stone usefully?])) (;B[ed]C[This didn't occur to me until I started annotating the game now.] ;W[fd] ;B[ee] ;W[dc]LB[hd:A]C[I don't really know any further than this. White's stones seem to be working together well but maybe there is still a weakness.]))