He obviously wants to start the ko, so it's probably not good for me

This seems quite safe, although his chances of living with his invasion are much bigger now. OTOH, I think I may win this even if he does live.

Hmm. Seems too passive for black. Oh well. Let's break up the bottom~

I hate it when I come back to a game after a while and forget who I was rooting for!

With shorter time settings I would probably play a safer move (1 point to the right), but I haven't been able to read anything catastrophic into this. Besides, this is a learning experience, and I again want to see what I have missed this time.

According to my reading white will be able to live, but I will get sente and I can try to cut off the top of his group with L10

I don't know what will happen.

I think I read this through, but we'll soon see

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If you don't mind, where are you seeing this ending?
*I mean, obviously it's slightly unclear, but I'm sure you have an idea

If you don't mind, where are you seeing this ending?

both players raise bets, which is exciting for spectators, but i doubt it is advantegous for both of them. specifically, if white dies, he loses anyway, so he wants to make the fight bigger, to possibly gain more and to get bigger potential of living. however, if black himself said he expected white to live, why does he play to kill by all means?

still, killing is a tempting option and i wish black all luck in the world to succeed

As someone else who plays perhaps-mistakes similar to , I think the justification is that it increases white's distance from settling, which isn't necessarily going for the kill.

Say, if we live like this

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[go]$$Wc
$$ +---------------------------------------+
$$ | . . . . . . . O . . . . . . . . . . . |
$$ | . X X O . O O X O O . . . . . . . . . |
$$ | . O X . O X X X X O . . . . . O O O . |
$$ | . O . X X O X X O O X X . O O X X O . |
$$ | . . O . . O O X X O O X O . X X . X . |
$$ | . . O X X X O O X X X O O . . . O X . |
$$ | . . . . . . O X O O X X X . . X . . . |
$$ | . . . . X X O X . . . . . . . . . . . |
$$ | . . O O O . O X . . O . . . . . X . . |
$$ | . . . , . . O X . , . . O . . , . . . |
$$ | . . . . O . X X . . . . X . . . . . . |
$$ | . . X . X . . . . . . O X . X . X . . |
$$ | . . . . X . . . . . O . O X . . . . . |
$$ | . . . O . . . . . . . O X . O . O . . |
$$ | . . . . . . . . B . O . X . . . X X . |
$$ | . . . X . X . . . , O X . X . X X O X |
$$ | . . . 0 9 7 3 1 O O X O . . . X O O . |
$$ | . . . . 8 4 5 2 X X X O . O . O . O . |
$$ | . . . . . . 6 . . . . . . . . . . . . |
$$ +---------------------------------------+[/go]

It's still something of a headache for white.

Here's my move after looking at it for a few minutes, not sure if it works:

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[go]$$Wcm121 Prisoner Count: B-1 W-0
$$ ---------------------------------------
$$ | . . . . . . . O . . . . . . . . . . . |
$$ | . X X O . O O X O O . . . . . . . . . |
$$ | . O X . O X X X X O . . . . . O O O . |
$$ | . O . X X O X X O O X X . O O X X O . |
$$ | . . O . . O O X X O O X O . X X . X . |
$$ | . . O X X X O O X X X O O . . . O X . |
$$ | . . . . . . O X O O X X X . . X . . . |
$$ | . . . . X X O X . . . . . . . . . . . |
$$ | . . O O O . O X . . O . . . . . X . . |
$$ | . . . , . . O X . , . . O . . , . . . |
$$ | . . . . O . X X . . . . X . . . . . . |
$$ | . . X . X . . . . . . O X . X . X . . |
$$ | . . . . X . . . . . O . O X . . . . . |
$$ | . . . O . . . . . . . O X . O . O . . |
$$ | . . . . . . . . 2 . O . X . . . X X . |
$$ | . . . X . X 3 . . , O X . X . X X O X |
$$ | . . . . . . . . O O X . . . . X O O . |
$$ | . . . . . . . . . X . . . O . O . O . |
$$ | . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
$$ ---------------------------------------[/go]

I just looked at this via instinct, without reading, but it's hard for me to imagine when you wouldn't want to have traded G3 for G2 before playing H6.

I had anticipated a complex fight in the lower left corner, but I think whites last move was a mistake and that I still have a small chance of killing him.