Review Request - 25k v 25k

Hi!

This was my fifth game, and the first one that I won. I think I played pretty well, but I only won by 8.5 points. I was wondering if anyone could give me a review, let me know what I did right, what I did wrong (I’m sure there’s far more of the latter than the former lol).

its huge win for 9x9


on move 45 if you played F3 you would be safely ahead


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but because you didn’t play here, white did


situation became very complicated, risk of losing became high
you need to prevent situation like that and fix the weakness

I’m struggling a bit to understand why F3 was “the move”, is it because I ended up with a bunch of disconnected stones?

all those green groups become separated from each other
white then can capture F2 stone by playing E2 or can play at D3 and threat E3 stone and stones below

your F3 would connect all your groups and prevent any possibility to cut them from each other

I think I see it now! I’m looking through the game myself as well, and it looks like on move 52, white put me in a pretty bad atari with E3 that I just didn’t respond to. If they captured that stone they would’ve taken a bunch of territory right?

If I had connected that with F3 it wouldn’t have happened

move 43 you played F2


and white got chance to win
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but if you played F3 instead


it would be safe victory
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Another thing is you should consider that your stones can have more distance between each other. Playing at the contact of another stone of yours is many times too heavy or slow.
It’s hard to review as it seems you are still missing a lot of things. Like connection you make when not needed, and the reverse, not blocking your opponent, … At this level of experience it would need a far too long review which could be annoying, my guess is you should simply keep playing more games.