Losing on the psychological side?

[Bill Spight]

Bill Spight Thank you so much for the review!

You're welcome.

I liked your way of keeping the position simple whenever my opponent went for potential complications.

You can do that when you have the advantage.

[Loons]

I would like to observe that white's style was not aggressive and fighting-oriented, but abstruse and inane (attributes of mine, both).

Contact moves are generally defensive, facilitating settling at a local cost.

As such my tactical comment would be that tenuki-ing a contact move in the third corner was a mistake, because then it was like you had erroneously played the contact move yourself.

Real contact fights start as both players try and get-one-up in an unsettled situation.

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