Nothing personal, but I would strongly recommend to all people that if you want a game thoroughly critiqued then you should submit it to GTL. You will get better feedback than you could do here.

Just a general comment: You should seriously pay attention if there isn't something sente you can do before taking gote. If you had succeeded just once or twice more in this game, you would have gained the difference needed to win it.

Always be extremely hesitant to play a one-point gote, since it's as close as you can get to being completely useless while still achieving something. This means they should be the LAST moves you make. If you add just one eye before the last few moves, the only valid reason is to make a group live. Every other time, look around and see if you're really out of alternatives.

Near the end you've got several opportunities to take one point and threaten to take another, while you play one-point gote instead. A one-point sente should always rank higher among your options.

would you mind naming a few slow moves of mine?

I think that used to be true, but I'm not so sure anymore.
I think you at least get quicker responses here.

Did you look at Bill's comments ? In many clubs, you're lucky to even have a 1-kyu review your games.

That's true for our club, our strongest player is 3k

A few comments on the opening.



Major point: Avoid incremental increases of territory. Think on a large scale.

Went over the last 100 moves, trying to pick nits:

180 -- only P14 is secured, nothing is threatened
210 -- only R7 is secured, no immediate follow-up
214 -- only K6 is saved, no threat or folluw-up
216 -- only E5 is secured, no follow-up
226 -- only N10 is secured, no follow-up
236 -- only N10 is secured (from the other side this time!) no follow-up. You spent two gote moves to keep that one point!
239 -- you could have poked at black here, and then ADDITIONALLY play one of the one-point gote moves.

This is an incomplete set of options for move 180:



The circles are sente (I think) and the squares are all gote.
For the sake of this diagram, "sente" is "can take one more point after this move is ignored", and "the response does not need to be responded to"

I would have played at the triangle first, though. It's by far the biggest thing left on the board. What if black played there at 181?

Bill (and other players) have mentioned quite a few times the weakness of the kosumi when next to a two-stone wall. For example, the kick at leaving a weakness at R06, and the block of leaving a weakness for Black at N03.

I have a lot of trouble exploiting these, though! For example, if I (as white) were to follow up with at N03, can Black simply not eat the attack by playing at N04? Or am I being too literal-minded?

Bill (and other players) have mentioned quite a few times the weakness of the kosumi when next to a two-stone wall. For example, the kick at leaving a weakness at R06, and the block of leaving a weakness for Black at N03.

I have a lot of trouble exploiting these, though!

Just the ponders of a weak player.



(I haven't read Mr Spights comment's yet, but I went to the endgame.)
Try to always think about the power of your moves.

So for moves such as 21, 27 and 33, you say its slow to defend that stone. What then is the purpose of the previous move?