Can someone please review this game for me? The specific parts I want reviewed are the invasion on the left (Move 137) and the battle in the top right. How could I have won either?
I may look at the whole game later but wanted to adress your two questions:
Since the invasion cannot run towards center and live, what you should do is prevent the eye formation rather than .
B11 on move 140 would be simpler.
After move 145 (black playing C9), you can play elsewhere and black is still dead, though if you cannot read playing a move like E9 is OK.
At move 148, B5 is enough. You limited the black area and he cannot make 2 eyes.
In general the approach to invasions is limit its area, then if you can kill, you kill, if it stays alive it stays alive with a limited area. Since this game you have no worries about it going towards center, you could prevent eye formation earlier so the invasion is dead somewhat more easier
After move 71, locally you just gotta ignore your N16 stone and start building a wall that limits black’s group at right. At one point in the future, the stone at K17 is expected to be doomed and die. At one point, if black doesnt move at there before you, you can make moves like O15 and maybe then P15 to threaten things and gain a few points. After the game continued and black played N18, you should play O18. Your right group has 3 liberties, your left one has 4, black group has 3. By playing O18 you could increase your group’s liberty to 4 and reduce black’s liberty to 2, which black just loses capturing race.
And after missing that your 3 stones are dead anyways so you should have looked for what you can save instead of forcing it, losing even more in the process.
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