Here's my first game from the tournament. It's an even game.
I felt pretty smug at the beginning because White was letting make a gigantic moyo, but she ended up cutting up my group and then chasing my weak group throughout her moyo. I should not have lived, but she made a critical mistake.
Here are my main questions about the game:
1. What should I have done differently around
instead of just pushing White to slice through my groups? Was this play reasonable up until then (I felt quite good about it!) But when White cut my groups up, I felt like I'd made a mistake.2. Could I have played better in response to the
3-3 invasion? I was hoping to get sente out of it to invade White's corner.3. How would it be better to have played starting around
? I don't understand very well how to play when trying to make eyeshape in my opponent's moyo and I should have died. Maybe I should have played more lightly? But I was worried that I'd lose the entire bottom-left group if I left any cutting points. I feel like I could use a lot of help on this section of the game.Things I know I should have done better:
1. Protect locally at
, White's follow up there was devastating and I could have played in sente there :/2. Many endgame problems. After about Move 146 or so we were in Byo-yomi and I didn't realize how many weaknesses there were in the top right (or how close the game would be).
Thanks!
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are really helpful and I appreciate your explanation of the broken shape that I kept creating. I'll work on that in future games.
. This move seems concerning to me:
, B has miai of (a) and (b) -- so it is B who gets a ponnuki first:
at 
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at (c) or (d)
). But then White kept jumping in and trying to spoil my moyo all over the place. I can't tell if this was a bad idea (making lots of weak groups) or a good idea (playing lightly in Blacks area to spoil my moyo). I know I made a huge blunder (not connecting at 
) and was saved by White making a similarly huge mistake (responding to my ko threat at White 119).
a bad play? Just helping White to settle her shape? How about the rest of that corner play?
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? I still felt good having built huge influence while giving White only small life (or is it even alive?). Should I have attacked the top group more?
, should I have attacked this weak group on the left more?
might be in the wrong direction?
, the corner was in trouble.
, was there a better way to reduce/invade White's moyo? I was happy to get my reduction in sente, but maybe I really just helped White to solidify his territory?
run out so far? I think it was good because my moves were dual purpose, reducing White's moyo and surrounding the invasion, but maybe I let the invasion get too big?
should have pushed in at Q7 instead of P6! This would have sealed White in or made him run for his life!
should have helped my weak side group, not sure where.
: would it be better to connect here? I cannot read this well.
should have wedged to get aji while connecting.
pushes the wrong way, White is happy to abandon that one stone.
(and maybe several earlier plays) should have attacked the invading group? For example at J2.
probably should have gone the other way (C4) to take advantage of such a strange 
. Then if Black wanted to keep me disconnected he'd need another over-concentrated play in that area.
was a disastrous blunder. I'd go so far as to say this one haunted me for the rest of the game and led to most of my weaknesses. I'm guessing just the solid extension at E9 would have been much better. I thought that would be too slow and give up sente, but obviously it's soo much better than the alternative I ended up with.
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I should have stopped trying so hard to create/save that left group and spent more time developing my top moyo, keeping my bottom groups connected, keeping my top left corner, etc. On a high level I think trying so hard to make this group live hurt me the most in the game.