Endgame comment

This blog received its first comment recently, a suggestion that in the game posted below "instead of 241 [I] should have played 242."

Indeed.  I believe I thought my black group at the top was dead, so the best I could do was squeeze out one point.  The group is dead, but has enough aji to do a bit better.  White is short of liberties, so if he plays like this:

 

the result is seki, fantastic for me.

My group still gets killed when White plays this way:

 

but at least I do 5 points better.

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