I was actually losing way before I thought I was…
When was the time to save the H6 group? I don’t understand, I think the AI doesn’t suggest saving it, the variation it suggests kills it anyway, after 20 moves.
Perhaps like this?
You’d still have a weak group G12, but White G10 is also weak, so the fight is fair.
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oh wow that’s quite early, I wouldn’t even have thought I was in trouble back then.
That group wasn’t really in trouble after move 96, but it was in trouble after black made the exchanges of move 97 to move 103. Can you see how those exchanges greatly weakened the H6 group?
White noticed so they cut it off with moves 104-106 while also connecting their weak-ish E11 group. Still black might save the H6 group with a move at K7 though. I think the H6 group only fully died around move 144.
So move 97 (@jlt’s proposal) wasn’t the very last chance black had to save the H6 group, but his proposal does have the advantage of not only securing black’s H6 group, but also to cut off white’s weak-ish E11 group, killing 2 birds with one stone and potentially maintaining black’s 20 to 25 point lead.
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