The mid-game I felt pretty good about in the sense I didn’t feel like I made huge mistakes, yet It seems like I could no longer reduce black’s territory after a certain point. Even if I did it wasn’t making me a lot of points. To me the game felt about hopeless after the mid-game started. I kind of regret the moves around move 60. My intuition says that I maybe was just not growing my side enough. Instead of defending my corner I should have taken a bigger side maybe. glom vs. Alendramada
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at this point your triangled stones are in danger, you need to connect them with a move like A. Your squared stones don’t need to be defended, they are out in the center and can live easily.
In this position you played A but this is slow. Your × stones are super-strong, so you are overconcentrated. If you really want to defend the two stones Q10, consider a move like B which is more active and puts pressure on the triangled stone R12. Or play a move around C, D, E to put pressure on the bottom black group. Or F to attack R12. Or a move around G to split the top.
Here you really needed to capture the two triangled stones with A. If you manage to capture them, then your squared group will be strong, and then you can aim at attacking the × group.
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You made a mix of different mistakes. From looking at the game I don’t think there is one goal or concept you have a particularly hard time with that is holding you back. As you play more games and do more tsumego, and your reading improves, I’d expect you to improve naturally.
Between move 69 and move 81 you lost 30 points, but that was mostly because you were playing a bunch of inside moves first creating, and then connecting two groups that weren’t alive locally, and were still dead after you connected them. If at move 76 you had played the move black immediately played at 77 (to capture the two black stones), or at move 78 you had played the move black immediately played at 79 (to connect out and save half of your stones), you could have limited most of the damage; but I don’t think there’s any rule of thumb you were missing, you just couldn’t read out why the sequence you chose didn’t work.
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Yeah, these comments make sense. So generally I’m seeing I need to work on knowing when my groups are strong or not and if them being cut matters in the long run? I think part of it is also know when my opponent is strong or not. Because like commented I could have probably taken the two stones on the top. However I neglected taking note of their strength only noting in my head that my stone looked cut off from the main group rather than their two were surrounded. Thank you both for your time. I will keep up the tsumego.
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