Thank you all for the review. All of your advice makes sense to me now.
@ Magicwand, I really should have a better feel for all of the natural responses to my capping as well as all of my options. I guess it's stuff like this that will help me get to a higher level, so it helps just to stop and think, "Consider the consequences and natural responses to a cap and maybe I can gain a stone."
I'm also curious about which move you would have chosen in response to the cap.
@Bill, Your review made me feel silly as many of my moves seemed small to me. I tend to get blood lust sometimes, so I don't allow for the opponent to natural give me something that I want and just let him live. Instead, I go for the most severe move sometimes instead of realizing that the opponent will still have work to do after I just take what he's willing to give me.
And thank you everyone who pointed out how I could have killed that group.
@Amnal, thanks for the compliment about my not trying to stingily invade early. I have been trying to reign in that bad habit.
@Loons, The biggest problem is that his not protecting his cut helped leave invasion aji, but his two stones in the center seemed to alleviate that aji. As he ended up just sacrificing two stones and making fourth line territory, so I don't know that it really hurt me to protect my cut, but I felt like I would have left too much invasion aji if I didn't follow up with any sort of extension and that a further extension would have felt overconcentrated with the wall on the right side. The left side, I think that I could have played another extension, but I do like the follow up move that I get after protecting that cut.
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