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On October 27 2014 19:28 mahrgell wrote:
@hesmyrr G3 is reasonable here. I feel like you are overstrategizing 9x9 a bit. Honestly, 9x9 is just a tactical battle, where for most moves there is no strategic guideline, that tells you if they are good or bad, but simple pure tactical reading decides, whether those moves work or don't. In this situation White has to do something like that, G3 would be among my first ideas as well, and I don't see a super simple refutation, so it is a fine choice.

Talking about perfect play... Uh well, I don't know perfect play, and honestly, this situation is quite difficult with lots of possibilities. By my own judgement White won't die unconditionally and easy. But wouldn't dare to say, who wins here.
And yes, by E4 cutting I of course meant E2-D2-E4.

And about move5-16 and general strategy. When you played move 4 you basically decided to play that kind of game. If you would hve wanted to prevent that, you could have D6 instead of C6, mirroring Black, but I'm no expert on 9x9 openings to tell you how this would turn out in first move advantage vs komi value. After that your sequence seems pretty straight forward. Also as we could see in the game... The wall is in fact working, even with an additional move at H3 there are problems for him, that are not easily solved. (I'm against using the argument of "but it worked" because that is often only due to opponents making shitmoves... but here the situation later is so difficult and G3, that it obviously still everyones game, even with better play) Even though Black playing H3 at G4 would have been much better for him.
About move 18... Difficult. You really want to play where you played... but G4 can probably win for Black. but not playing there also hurts a lot...You could now either backtrack to move 4 and call it bad... Or just try what happens with stuff like attaching to F4 from either side, which again is a lot to read and fight and difficult to predict:D

On October 27 2014 12:21 Hesmyrr wrote:
One thing I also wanted to ask about is my strategy. I am pretty sure I lost after move 5 to 16. Two black stones are way too close for me to successfully utilize my wall. If black decided to make me leave small on the corner... for example, play E4 as move 33 instead of J2, I think my center group outright dies (never mind the need to save the corner in gote) which means my G3 invasion wasn't good idea to begin with regardless of life-or-death? What should I have played as move 18 to better myself, or was my response to black E7 wrong from the very start?

On October 30 2014 01:44 Torte de Lini wrote:
Move 65: A1 -- I thought two eyes had to be connected directly together?

Move 64: H1 - I felt that entire string of play would be something someone much more confident could do. It's smart move, but way beyond my ability to foresee how it'd turn into my favour, no?