If you do not mind the addition, I’d like @Uberdude 's feedback on this idea, that you might have actually cut very early in the whole exchange and thus avoided all those peeps in the first place:
The way I see it the weaknesses in the triangle marks are there, but not so severe that you cannot play this and now the opponent has to choose A or B and it is miai, as far as I can tell.
Is it a better choice than what you played? I am not sure which is why I tagged Uberdude
I do not much like the B case, but but that’s what I’d probably play anyway, though I am more of a “hey, this looks fun I’ll play it” kind of player and not a “this is definitely a good move, I’ll play it”, so take my ideas with a lot of grains of salt.
I don’t really agree - maybe the first couple of times, but it should be automatic quickly. The only “distraction” is a reminder: “whoa, I’m supposed to think now”, distracting you from clicking on the first instinctive move.
Thanks for the variations! I did a bit of readings in the game and saw a similar graph as variant B here.
My thinking was also I’m not sure if that’s good, because it feels like Black would have a lot of sentes and I can kinda foresee some eye shapes / potential danger for my top left groups.
Being not good enough at reading, my thought was just “ok this potential variant looks complicated and dangerous, so this peep move seems a good way to avoid the fight here”
Ewww, no! d12 wedging in is yucky, helps black make shape and look at that d10 empty triangle. The biggest downside of d13 peep is it means white can no longer play b12 effectively because now black can safely block at b13, whereas without the peep then c13 would be atari so black has to fall back to c13. 2nd line is not so small here, base and potential connection.
Something to think about: the fact that after the d10 extension and black’s invasion at c12 you felt the d16 group above could benefit from strengthening (which is true, it’s not really thickness you can press the invader against and is not independently alive yet) means maybe that d10 was a bit too far. Just because an intersection has a dot on it, doesn’t mean you need to play there
Imho you should insist to separate the time you think and watch the whole board without interference with the time you touch the mouse and play the move with the stone ghost.
