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by Dragon Pie Fri Mar 15, 2013 2:58 pm
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In endgame, this is better:
$$Bcm1
Click Here To Show Diagram Code [go]$$Bcm1Because early in endgame, I can have one more point by playing at
a if he descends or if he takes
a I connect and then the sente play at
b Is my privilege. But in this situation, it's bad for liberties, so I just connect.
$$Bcm1
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by emerus Fri Mar 15, 2013 3:28 pm
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by Dragon Pie Fri Mar 15, 2013 3:48 pm
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Looking back, I think that this would have been the best variation for white:
$$Wcm1
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for
exchange is good for white. This way, I get to kill his stones instead of connect underneath.
Anyhow, at this point, now that I don't really have the liberty issues I had before, I think the bamboo joint is better than this connection, but it's a minor quibble. Perhaps he feared what would happen if I cut instead of playing
But I think he can win the capture race if he takes that point for himself. But I can see why he'd hesitant to let me get the first move against the three stones to make it a capture race.
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by emerus Fri Mar 15, 2013 6:15 pm
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by Dragon Pie Fri Mar 15, 2013 7:20 pm
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by emerus Fri Mar 15, 2013 9:25 pm
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by Dragon Pie Fri Mar 15, 2013 9:55 pm
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I was conflicted about playing here:
$$Bcm1
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$$Bcm1
Click Here To Show Diagram Code [go]$$Bcm1This feels better for the eyeshape of my group and would feel much better if he had played the bamboo joint earlier as he'd have a peep there, but since he didn't play the bamboo joint, I feel better about the move that I played because it diminishes potential eyespace more and because it gives me an option to push in at R3 to further reduce it.
$$Bcm1
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by emerus Fri Mar 15, 2013 10:26 pm
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by Dragon Pie Fri Mar 15, 2013 10:51 pm
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by emerus Sat Mar 16, 2013 6:19 pm
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by Dragon Pie Sat Mar 16, 2013 11:10 pm
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by emerus Sun Mar 17, 2013 10:08 pm
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by Dragon Pie Sat Mar 23, 2013 7:04 am
Sorry for taking so long to post this. My laptop keyboard broke, so it was hard to write up a post.
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This separates his capping stone from his other stones and theatens at
a He can get a pretty big territory up there, but he's also spent a lot of moves over there.
I also considered tenuki to attack his group severely, but I think that I can strengthen my own group first. My attack would be more severe after my group has more strength. His group is still pretty dangerous. It's possible that he'll want to tenuki and improve the status of his group, but I have a good follow up in this area if he does that. If he responds here, I'll return to attack his group.
$$Bcm41
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by emerus Sat Mar 23, 2013 3:27 pm
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Black has some thin shape here, I'll try to cut him off from his side stone.
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by Dragon Pie Sat Mar 23, 2013 4:39 pm
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for 
exchange is good for white. This way, I get to kill his stones instead of connect underneath.