Alejo's Tenuki

Alejo,

it is quite impressive what you analysed around move 92 ff, I didnt see all of that.

Concerning move W152, White seems to have preferred a safe variant W56, while your tigermouth suggestion W156 begs for the bad aji at P7 with subsequent escape and/or capture.

Tommie on GD

tommie is right that the aji is cleaner in the game than in your variation for move 152, though I’d say that p7 isn’t really the focal point of that. Simply think of all the ways that Black can play forcing moves in this area, threatening to draw those stones out through the hole at q5. With the game move, clamping at q6, there’s a lot less bad aji; black has useful forcing moves at q4 and q5, and that’s about it.

However, I don’t think you’ll get the result that you expect, in your variation. Is move 154 forcing, in your diagram? What if Black plays 155 at 156?

With the move 92 variation, I think there’s a bit of a conceptual error with the reading. You have white committing to connecting the two stones with q13, after which black captures and white has greatly reduced liberties, and THEN you seem to be having white trying to capture the 5 stones and the center and failing because of lack of liberties. Better the other way around, right? It’s certainly plenty good to capture those 5 black stones in the center, connecting 3 weak or potentially weak groups in the process.