Alejo's Tenuki

This is a situation from a game I played last week.

As you can see, black has a huge territory on the bottom of the board. The two stones at C4 have been sacrificed during the game… or not?

Is there anyway you could profit from their presence?

Yes, it is possible to invade the bottom of the board by taking these cutting stones into account. If we played as shown on the next picture (what happened on the game) it seems possible to invade there. As you can see, black had to avoid that this cutting stones successed on their purpose and I took the chance here to invade.

Probably some better players can tell us that the invasion was killable anyway by some hard-reading exercise, but this was made on byoyomi, with around 30 seconds per move on a game between players at 9-10k level, so we didn’t have much time to think. As the illustrator of "Empty Triangle" says: crap time runs out time runs out must move fast must think now no time.

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