Usually the player with fewer total groups on the board tends to have an advantage. I just finished a game that was an interesting counterexample. I had five separate living groups at the end, while my opponent had one large connected group, but I still won by a fair margin.

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KGS 4 kyu - Game Archive - Keyboard Otaku

He spent most of the game running without making points.

And why didn't you play 183 one point to the left?

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Sanity is for the weak.

It was probably early in the morning or late at night (it's a DGS game).

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KGS 4 kyu - Game Archive - Keyboard Otaku

Does a 4k really play R16!?

Something to take away from the top-left corner:

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[go]$$W White to play.
$$ ------------------
$$ | . . . . O . . . .
$$ | . . X X O . . . .
$$ | . . X O O . . . .
$$ | . X X O . . . . .
$$ | . X O . . . . . .
$$ | . O O . . . . . .
$$ | . . . . . . . . .
$$ | . . . . . . . . .
$$ | . . . . . . . . .[/go]

Given that, black has a way to avoid the fate above by playing differently in the below position:

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[go]$$B Black to play
$$ ------------------
$$ | . . . . O . . . .
$$ | . . X X O . . . .
$$ | . . X O O . . . .
$$ | . . X O . . . . .
$$ | . X O . . . . . .
$$ | . O O . . . . . .
$$ | . . . . . . . . .
$$ | . . . . . . . . .
$$ | . . . . . . . . .[/go]

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We don't know who we are; we don't know where we are.
Each of us woke up one moment and here we were in the darkness.
We're nameless things with no memory; no knowledge of what went before,
No understanding of what is now, no knowledge of what will be.

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"The more we think we know about
The greater the unknown"
Words by neil peart, music by geddy lee and alex lifeson

Ooops! I thought L+2 was alive even with that descent.

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KGS 4 kyu - Game Archive - Keyboard Otaku

To be honest, after watching first 15 moves, I was convinced that this is DDK (double digit kyu) game. You should both work on your fuseki =). About weak groups, neither of you really had any weak groups throughout the entire game, so group count didn't have any impact.

Fwiffo, I guess the take away from this is that next time you need to up the ante and win with having 5 weak groups; don't bring any of this weak stuff in here!