Another game where I feel like I got some good moves, but also some real blunders. I'm finding that, in Go, it's really hard to play your best game. If you study a lot from books, you get a lot stronger, but much of that knowledge is hard to put in your game immediately.
Still, this made for a nice game, with blunders on both sides and the game going back and forth, I think.
Things I think I did right:
- stay cool on the top right corner when he cuts, to catch him in a ladder.
-
looks very cool.- The upper left corner up until
was fairly good.-
is big.- Move 119 is big.
- keeping my calm after White 142
- sacrafice to gain strength/territory elsewhere or to avoid getting in more trouble. (Black 177)
- using my 3 dead stones (G7-8-9) to catch the cutting stones.
- not follow my opponent around all the time.
Things I think I did wrong:
-
would've been better at M5, I think.- That entire sequence with me losing my group was completely misread with that ko.
- getting thrown off-beat with his strange opening.
- Maybe
was too nice of me. Then again, I was thinking of that moyo on the bottom side.- Getting hane'd at move
and not responding.- Moves 80-91: valuing the center too much and making my lower group weaker.
- Black 135, just go with M9 and you're out!
- Black 147 I felt scared to atari at H10 and was too lazy to read out if it was possible, because too many variations. Still, I believe it was the better side for me, but I should read it better anyway.
So anyway, any criticism is very much appreciated, as always.
An empty corner is big.
B is happy to reply at M17.
, 
wasting ko threats.
Take.
Tenuki.
D6.