The last thing that I want to do is make my Q9 stone heavy...
As I noted a few moves back, my opponent has out-walled me. His stones in the upper middle, which I had intended to be a target since move 19, have now become strong. This forces me to change my entire game plan.
I'm changing from the hunter to the hunted.
If I were wiser, I probably would not have been grabbing territory with 43:
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Instead, something like this may have been more consistent:
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But here we are: me with a lead in territory and him with a lead in influence. So I have to reset my goals. In particular I have to make sure that he does not capitalize on his influence.
Fortunately for me, he is taking his time about doing so. IMHO, has last play was unnecessarily defensive.
My play is based on the general opinion that his last move was conservative, and upon the specific opinion that I can make him overconcentrated.
Given the array of eastward-facing stones that white has - here marked with circles - his play at 64 seems too small.
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IMO, if he wanted to play in that direction, it looks better like this:
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[go]$$Bcm61 Prisoners:
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$$ | . . . . . . X X . . . . . . . . . . . |
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...or maybe even further eastward.
But as he played it, it is so close to his other stones that their strengths overlap.
I can play a contact move, knowing that if he captures it, he gets a ponnuki that is way too close to his wall:
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While he is making those three additional moves to capture, I get three moves also - which I hope to be more efficient. A possible example is this:
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On the other hand, if he leaves my stone uncaptured, it will inhibit the direction of play of his wall, and it will assist in the fight on the east side where my one stone will be have more eastward influence than a handful of his.
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$$ | . X O O O X . O O . . . . . . . . . . |
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$$ | . . . X X . X X O , . O 7 . . , . . . |
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$$ {AR N10 P9}
$$ {AR N10 P10}
$$ {AR N10 P11}
$$ {AR J9 L9}
$$ {AR J10 L10}
$$ {AR J11 L11}[/go]