Life In 19x19

Just playing to live. This, at least, still leaves the cut at N4.

Hades12 wrote:i think moyoaji might need one more move here.

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This attachment may cause him problems.

Could you show the "problems" in diagrams ?

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If I'm not mistaken, if B omits the turn then this sequence kills?

Edit: a makes life

And I live in gote. But at least I lived with a few points and all the white points on the bottom are gone and I still have the cut for later.

Let's see what he does next. I'm sure my opponent will take sente here.

Fix the cut?

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i would love to play a large point here. But I need to fix the cuts everywhere. This seems to threaten an attack on the right side. So maybe I can still get sente. But I hate to give black a thank you move. This only makes the side harder to get into.

I feel like my opponent's move was sort of wishy-washy.

Yes, it basically defends the cut by serving as a ladder breaker. Yes, it threatens to surround my corner. But it really does neither. I'll have a number of possible forcing moves to threaten the cut again and, with this one move, I not only get my corner out, but I am now going to be building 4th line territory on the right if white decides to push from behind to get a wall.

I might be concerned about giving white a wall here, but I already have my group stabbing into the center. It is not totally alive yet, but I have two eyes in gote if I want them and still have plenty of space to move around. It is just something I need to remember to keep an eye on.

I will also want to grab sente to extend from my upper corner soon to prevent white from pressing me down there and limiting my ability to develop the right.

Basically, I question whether white will get more in the center than I'll get on the right considering my stone is on the forth line and ahead of his.

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Seems like after this white needs both 'a' and 'b' to try to build the center; his potential there is already being limited by my groups on either side.

im slipping behind. I need to play strongly up top.

Sticking to the plan. Pushing from behind here seems necessary for white, but it doesn't seem good.

Fun fact: They call the forth line the "line of victory" when you are making points there. Hopefully this result will help lead me to victory.

The exchange - is probably good for B. (If so, then W should not have done it.)

This was a tough move to decide on. On the one hand I want to play high to build my potential on the right. On the other hand, playing low helps against potential invasions. My thought is that, if white invades now, he'll have two weak stones, which could become two weak groups, which is bad.

I feel that I have a lot of good choices for my next move. If white defends his approach stone I can invade the corner to prevent a double wing. If white encloses his corner I can attack his stone. I also have the turn at P12. Lots of good things for me to do.

I need to play a strong game from here on our. But I can't go into panic mode and fight too much and over extend. I need to keep out of panic mode. I think I'll see a move up top near the left corner.

I don't want white to get an enclosure here. That would make the top and left side quite easy. I figure the best way to prevent that is to take this move. After all: "your opponent's best move is your best move."

From here, I think white can pincer or press me down. I think either is fine for him and I think either way I can get a decent result here. All I want to do is limit white's potential. I feel like I'm ahead right now, so I think all I have to do is limit white's potential to win. At some point this weekend I'll count things up and post what I think the score is.