Black WR 75% --> 50%. This looks like a natural move, preventing White from getting thick on the side, but on closer inspection it’s revealed to be slow.
Black WR 30%. Not quite sure why the bot hates this move though. Might just be a misread. I do lose a ko threat unnecessarily but bots tend not to care about that…
Black WR 30% – 15%. Presumably the bot thinks I shouldn’t make this exchange and I should instead just live with A, and then fix at B if needed. I’m inducing White to harm my ponnuki, so it makes sense.
For the 40% -> 30%, the reason is that you’re losing future endgame points. D1 is a better endgame move if white can’t block at C1 for fear of losing everything in ko (bD1 wC1 bA2) and even if white has enough ko threats to block, at least white needs an extra move to fix, so black retains sente if white blocks. (bD1 wC1 bE1 wB4).
If you’ve already forced white to play B4, then you’ve lost all of this. So C5 is a thank-you move, white says “thank you for fixing my endgame problems”.
Also for the 50%->40%, a thing to notice is that the “crawl” also threatens white’s stones! Black E15 afterward would capture. But after white defends, black doesn’t need any other moves so black gets sente (so I’m guessing actually white doesn’t even want to defend, it’s too small now). Whereas with the game move, after white defends, black needs a second move.
So the crawl, although very slightly worse in final shape, basically does the job in one move instead of two.
Black advantage before D19 was only around 3 points. And after the whole thing it’s like 7 points for white. It’s not that much.
But the points are slipping away every move. Why is that, is every move there not good? No, the problem are not these moves. It’s just the player doesn’t see something important in the position, and moves they make hurt this opportunity more and more.
And the black group on the left isn’t in danger of dying, that’s why bot can tenuki from it.
So that’s the problem, not seeing some important part of the position. And I think it’s valuable to catch things like this. When you think there’re problems with your moves and think they’re bad when really the reason is not seeing something else on the board.
Sidenote: I mostly have no idea what I’m talking about, I only looked at bot vars \o/
I love this post. This has been my experience many times, and in my opinion main weakness of IA commentary. When a strong human player would point at the important area, IA says “eh, you lose two points”. Except you’re going to lose two points every move for the next twenty moves because you didn’t spot the important area.
This is especially true when it is an general direction and area instead of a tactical move.
