I recently played as white in a quick match normal game on OGS after taking a very long break from playing go. My opponent was supposedly 12k while I was [?] in rank, but I was last told by a go club member a long time ago that I might be around 6k though I often just think I’m between 9k and 5k. Anyway, I would love to know how I could have played that game better. For example, perhaps I should have invaded (C3, C5 or bottom side?) or there were better moves for attacking my opponent’s stones or defending their invasions? I feel like if they’d played move
to secure their top group instead, I wouldn’t have been able to kill it, and I would have been very behind. Also, am I still somewhere around 9k-5k or have I become better or worse? I’m a bit hesitant to play another game before having this one reviewed first…
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looks objectionable, as if you didn't read the ladder before playing 
. Probably 
looks like trying too much to kill. Just surrounding and letting Black live in gote with 2 points would have been a success. After 
you did almost kill some stones but finished in gote, still left weaknesses, and Black gained endgame in the corner.
looks wrong since White is already alive, and this move doesn't kill Black. For instance 
at F18 lives easily.
would surely be more valuable in the corner (C5) but it's consistent with the style.
looks like a classic move but Black's shape is already hard to attack and he should have no problem living while taking points away from corner and side.
is VERY clean, not to say slow. It looks like a declaration of victory. With C5 still available, that's a fair assessment.
, I finally realized the black group on the right side was hard if not impossible to kill cleanly without letting it escape to the centre. After 
, I got jealous of black’s bottom side ‘territory’ and left whatever weakness there was that black didn’t seem to have acted on yet there, and I started playing elsewhere as well.
and 
, and I wonder if I ‘punished’ black correctly though I suppose not really given what black had/could’ve gained or versus what I had gained.