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, but hesitated and wondered if there was a better move. After a few days of sitting on it, I still like this move.
In all honesty, I think his choice to abandon the bottom group is correct. I do not see a way for him to save it (although, I'll recheck the variations before making my next move). Therefore, it is much better to leave these stones as aji and try to rescue the other weak groups--specifically, the one on the right. I'll think carefully about my next move, but the obvious move to make is O10. In fact, I wonder why uranther didn't play there himself. Perhaps he does not see the variation I mentioned earlier:
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is not possible, else 
D3.
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, I experienced just this kind of a “Holy Excrement!” event. I came to realize that I had completely missed a strong possibility for Black. Specifically, while I saw that Black can play at 
is sente.
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, so Black gains around 10 points (compared to if White played at 
at J5 as then the bottom group lives:
. May the conflagration of White’s attack be never extinguished!
from its brethren, the cutting stone will be captured in a net or the right group will connect to the top group. However, uranther's move also allows me to connect my center stone to my group on the right and it lets me reinforce some of the weaknesses in my bottom group. The expected sequence is the following:
from lack of deeper analysis.
, then what? I will lose the two stones as the cost to kinda connect and I think this is okay. But the fight continues..
tenuki
stones and, therefore, to escape. If successful, Black could end up making much territory in the shaded area. In addition to this, White's top group 
could end up getting attacked. Thus, an immediate WO15 appears to be an overplay for White. Naturally, it is easy for both players to go wrong (especially for Black), so I could hope for a mistake from uranther. Yet, objectively speaking, I don't think the move is the best one available to me in the given position--hence the move at K13. This move strengthen's White's top group (it can run, if need be and White does not need to connect at K16 any time soon, which is a problem in many variations when trying to attack Black's top group). Also, the move makes it easier to invade Black's moyo on the left and it prevents Black from forming territory in the shaded area. Finally, and perhaps most importantly, I do believe the move to be absolute sente. If Black fails to protect his top group, it could well end up dying (which is worth 60+ points). In other words, I got to make a very useful move in sente, while uranther is forced to remain on the defensive. That said, I better make sure that my followup invasion on the left succeeds, because my advantage is largely equivalent to the amount of points I can reduce Black's moyo by on the left. However, before doing the invasion, I may first resume attacking Black's right group, if I can do so in sente.