Even at 7k, I suffer from fear of moyos

I made a post on reddit baduk about this position from a recent game of mine:

I was really fearful of the framework that Black was building. And the whole game I felt like I was fighting against the wonderful coordination between his stones.

After the game, I resolved to learn how to deal with such an imposing framework and some dan-level players quickly commented that I was suffering from a common “kyu disease” (fear of moyo) and had nothing to fear… just stay calm and grow your own as well.

Here we see that the best computer move is R12

but “initiates complex and early fighting” and instead a calm C6 is just fine.

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