[theseatoms]

I've had the same experience. It's easy to get drawn into petty skirmishes and ignore the larger play for territory.

A good rule of thumb = don't needlessly increase the margin of your victory for any particular part of the board

[gnidan]

Something that Michael Redmond 9P said a few times during the AlphaGo match was about how there comes a point in any sequence where the next move is of dramatically lower value than the previous.