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It grabs profit in sente and leaves white with an awkward shape on the bottom. Forcing white to play a seems good, so white would probably try to finagle something else. In addition, is practically double sente, since white playing there almost forces black to extend up the side. This seems worse for black:

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Now white gets the corner, fixes his shape on the left, and black is left with two floating stones, although they are light. On the other hand, maybe black could play something like a, although it seems loose.

Thoughts?

I buy it, Jedo.

I think Yilun Yang said that in the corner, it's OK to tenuki once and let them double approach, but after three moves, you should respond. Something like that.

Anyway, Magicwand is countering and ignoring my threat. So I will cash in. I think this is a psychological game here. I ignored his play on the left, and attacked his stones in the bottom right, saying the bottom right was mor important. He countered my ignoring him by ignoring me, saying what I played was not important.

I think his goal is to get me to get scared with my attacking stone and to try to run away. But I won't play that game. If he can leave stones as they are, so can I! I will simply cash in while the money is good!

What're you going to do next, Magicwand?

Kirby is trying not to give me any flow..as i did on him...
if he moves stone in the middle..it will effect two stone on the side so i will make him move his stone by building moyo.
very intresting game sofar. i can feel that kirby is stronger than before.
i would hate for him to play as below.

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Finally... He responded. Up until now, I feel like we have both been casting out our fishing lines, waiting for the other guy to give us control. I cast out my fishing line by sliding down along the bottom right. He ignored the bait, and cast a line of his own on the left a bit later. I ignored his bait, and threw a line down in the bottom right, again. Again, he ignored the bait. I cast my line once again in the bottom right, and finally... I got a bite!



Let's real in this fish, and see what profit we can make locally. I'm playing the move I did to enclose his stones, and try to give this fish on the other end of the line a full beating.

After this fish thrashes around a bit...



I'll pack up my tackle box and go fishing somewhere else.





Disclaimer: I do not fish in real life, so I am not sure if any of these analogies hold.

i guess my opponent's reading skill is close to mine
i dont think i played any moves that are bad..so i should be ok.

question..what will he play next???
from what i have seen...he will not move that lonely stone.
i guess i will have to play another move to capture it clean.

I feel like I am tryimg to orchestrate a symphony. That is, I am trying (I don't know how successfully) to make the board pieces work together in harmony.

I didn't play this move earlier, because I felt it was giving MW control. He was trying to make me move out my stone, and I didn't want to play along. Well, now I do. That's because I secretly want to play this move:

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to continue the pressure on white's bottom right group. Doing it straight out seems too forceful, though. I want it to happen more naturally. For example:

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The marked stones are in better shape with .

He might do this:


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But in that case, I have not invested anything into the marked black stone, it is still not dead, and I have the initiative around the marked intersection.

It is interesting to think of seemingly disparate areas of the board in a type of harmony like this.

I just hope that the final harmony is pleasing to black's ears (and to his score!).

Of course, white has other, potentially better, options than in the diagrams I gave, but the idea is I do not want to commit to making my bottom stone heavy, yet.

no comment needed for this move. now he will move and my attack will begin

I don't regret my last move, necessarily, but I'm not sure I like the sequences that I had read out. I may opt for a different move. This is an important place to think in the game.

I will not allow myself to make the mistake of playing without thinking. I thought for the last move, but I don't think it was enough. I must read ahead until I am sure I have considered things enough.

After some thought, I think it might be better to test his response here, first. I feel excitement in the air!

i would never play as kirby if i were to play someone stronger.

So he selected that path, eh? Let's have some fun!

does he have any plan for this???
i sure dont see any for black.

After the last move, it feels like maybe took the whole kiai thing a bit too far.

Note the ladder...

that was his plan??? you dont want to get sealed as kirby did.

he will need to place one more stone to left right corner to cover bad aji.

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