Comment to +-9 kyu 13x13 game, about a side invasion

[frank_kettu]

Freundschaftsspiel

From Aproximately move 14.
In the beginning of the game I was very satisfied with my opening, getting two good corners and white´s 2 stones being rather trapped up there. But then I noticed that this huge white block was beginning to take shape, so I invaded with J3. I wonder if K3 would have been better?

J4 is, according to AI, maybe not so good. I thought it was a neccesary move, because after the contact play I couldn´t extend with a big jump to the left. So I´m not sure what else would have been good.

Then after white´s reply, I felt suddenly that my stones might be about to die, and even now I feel that they should have died. I had expected white to cut my horse jump to H6. If white had played J5 there, I suppose I would have let j3 and j4 die (treat them lightly) and then tried to connect to the top right group, Maybe that would have been good enouh.

Any thoughts?

[jlt]

The AI graph says that your position was never bad, but I understand that you felt the sequence was risky.

Other moves you could have considered:

[terrific]

J4 probably wasn’t the best move but it’s also not terrible.

Some other (local) options:

I’m actually not quite sure they are better than J4

[Atorrante]

Put a variation in the game chat that focuses on reducing instead of invading (less risky).

[frank_kettu]

Thanks for the comments.

The reduction is a nice idea, but I think the elephant eye that would appear could be used by White to reduce my territory.

The attachment moves are definitely a nice idea too, something I don´t do often enough I think.