Recently played this game and thought the result was a little interesting. Both my opponent and I effectively ended up with one group each, and we split the board approximately in half. It’s happened to me a number of times in 9x9 games, but I don’t think I’ve played a 19x19 game where this has happened before.
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Well done for reaching this result. I also have a lot of games of Stones. Some of my games were good and some not so good.
Happens.
I don’t get the title. Why “mildy interesting”? Are you an agressive player? 
I remember an official game between Guli 9p and a SDK ama, sorry, forgot his name, at the WMSG at Beijing 2008. It went exactly like this, except the sacrificed stones.
Something I like in this kind of games is that they are easy to count (using Chinese counting and the symmetry tricks) so you can see if your intuition is right.
Maybe the interesting part is in how this end situation was achieved.
How about a link to this particular game?
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I’m a lot more experienced in 9x9, I only started really getting into 19x19 recently. I haven’t really seen the board divided in two like this before. I wrote “mildly” interesting because I wasn’t sure if this was actually interesting, or if it’s just the fact that I’m inexperienced and it might seem unusual because I’m encountering it for the first time. Looks like it’s the latter 
I’m not sure if the game itself was that interesting, both of us made a number of mistakes. I made some very silly moves up to 115 thinking it would be fine if my opponent played either J10 or J8, but thankfully they played J8. The game was on IGS so I can’t link to it directly, but I’ve uploaded the sgf here: PRHG vs. masato9350
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