This was a good game with really relaxed time limits, I felt like it was going well and didn’t make any obvious mistakes, however the AI review shows a steady decline right from the beginning.
There must be some fundamentally poor choice of direction for me, but not sure where it is. Can anybody help?
From the AI analysis point of view, things seemed to be “turned bad” by Move 51. This is the point at which the game starts getting out of reach of white, with a -15% mistake, taking the white win rate down to <25%.
At this move, the AI says that white needed to press out from the lower left - this group is apparently more important than making a few points up in the upper centre.
Even during the subsequent 10+ moves, the AI thinks that B6 is important for black.
I find that weird - I can’t really see the reasoning myself - just mentioning this all because that’s what’s there in the analysis
This is reaffirmed by its recommended black response to white H10. It say “pff - that doesn’t matter, attack the bottom left”.
I think move 45 was game changing. Before that game was quite even.
After that white focused on influence and center. But black had openings on the center and the whole middle ended in a handful of points for both.
Maybe it would have been better to block move 45 on the side, not on top.