L19 Tournament Game

[Redundant]

This is the first serious game I've played in about three months, so I'm interested in some thoughts. I was lucky to win this game due to a misread.

[Shaddy]

Some ideas. Basically White played well until he got a big wall and didn't really do anything with it.



[admin] I put the sgf in here to make it easier to read - JB [/admin]

One more thing - since you played a 4-5 facing the top side, you should probably approach the top rather than the bottom.

[Joaz Banbeck]

That's a fascinating game in the middle - way too confusing for me to comment about.
BTW, I borrowed Shaddy's file to make my comments, so the remains of some of his may be in here.
I may be wrong about the lower right fuseki.

[Shaddy]

The lower right is an interesting thing. I'm not sure how it would go if Black pincered, because since White is closer, he has more options against the corner. I suspect that the enclosure is correct, and the result of being too close is that if Black invades the bottom side, White's group becomes weaker than it would otherwise be.

[Uberdude]

o3 is not wrong: it's one of the many standard moves against the Chinese opening these days (I'm assuming the 5-4 point doesn't alter things, which may be an incorrect assumption and make a higher move like n4 better globally).

[Shaddy]

Wow, really? Just a year ago I only saw n3 and n4 down there. Do you have a game record where it was played?

[Uberdude]

Let's play o3 like it's 1999!

[cyclops]

What misread? I love them

[Redundant]

What misread? I love them

There were two big ones, one my each color. I didn't realize that he'd have miai of killing the top left or cutting in the middle, and he misread a ko threat after that.

[kyle]

I made some comments through move 76 for both sides.