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[Diagram]
Diag.: Position after black 41


Black has a clear advantage at this stage. The ponnuki was very painful for white and white has to solve several problems at the same time. The area at the top needs reduction. If black extend it it might become too large. Another problems is a group on the left. If it tries to survive it might turn out that the top would become really huge. At the same time white does not really have territory anywhere.

So, white chose to attack black's lower right corner :)

[Diagram]
Diag.: Moves 42-51

White starts with 1 in hope to squeeze the black group here from two sides and run it into the center. As the black group would run white will obtain something in the center too, which will make reduction of the top easier.

Black 2 naturally saparates white groups.

White 3 intends to build some base for the attack. But it is too mild.

Black counters with 4 and after white plays 5 black makes a tenuki to attack white stones on the left.

White now has to continue the attack of the lower right corner. But white 7 does it clumsily and was a mistake. Black cuts off this stone with 8.

White could play at 'a' yet taking the corner and but black would get a wall. Still it was better than what happened in the game. White played 9 and maximum white obtained was saving the stone 8, which is too little at this point of the game. Black easily lived in the corner and it was white's position that looked vulnerable.

Black 10 is a usual corner defending tesuji in this situation.

Thus white lost the fight in the second corner. The things could not be grimmer for white. The game seems lost, but resigning after 51 move is not in the spirit of amateur game.



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