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Author:  hyperpape [ Sun Jan 01, 2017 2:47 pm ]
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I've been doing well with the resolution in my last post, but it's very easy to slip up. Today I played a peep followed by a knight's move. Two seconds after playing the knight's move, I realized I'd only read one way to cut the knights move, in a correspondence game, no less.

Author:  hyperpape [ Wed Jan 10, 2018 9:01 pm ]
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This was a strange game. In the lower left corner, I blundered badly. I'm still not quite sure what to play there. Maybe atari at B3, then black captures a white stone in a ladder? Or can I connect and take a huge corner?

After that, my questions are:
1) did I play alright in the lower right?
2) What was a more reasonable approach for Black in the bottom center?
3) When my opponent prematurely resigned, how do you assess the game?

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Author:  Kirby [ Wed Jan 10, 2018 10:48 pm ]
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You could consider n4 instead of s4.

Black has nice influence on the bottom, so the s4 territory doesn’t seem as valuable, relatively speaking.

At the end, I think you are winning, but the bad part is your bottom center group can get attacked, so he could get some unknown amount of plus points from that.

Author:  hyperpape [ Sun Sep 29, 2019 11:08 am ]
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I played a tournament yesterday, with good results: I played no-komi against a 1 kyu, gave 3 stones to 6 and 7 kyus, and played even against a 1 kyu, winning all four games. Aside from the results, I think I generally played well too. Maybe the exception was one of the three stone games. We played really fast, and I had a good attack before overplaying and falling behind, thankfully I was able to create a complicated fight, and my opponent wasn't able to handle all the groups.

I've been playing quite badly in correspondence games (lost 9 out of 10 in a row earlier this year). I think the difference is that I'm grabbing time to check the game on my phone and playing a move when I'm not really focused.

Also, during my last game, I started staring at a corner position I've played dozens of times. I know White is alive, but couldn't think through the attacks and how to live.

Click Here To Show Diagram Code
[go]$$Bc
$$ ------------------
$$ | . a . . c . . . .
$$ | b d . . O X . . .
$$ | . O O O O X . . .
$$ | . O X X O X . . .
$$ | X X X . X X . . .
$$ | . O O . . . . . .
$$ | . . . . . . . . .
$$ | . . . . . . . . .
$$ | . . . . . . . . .[/go]


I think b, c and d are not hard, but I wasn't sure what the response to a was.

Click Here To Show Diagram Code
[go]$$Bc
$$ ------------------
$$ | . 1 5 3 4 . . . .
$$ | 7 2 . . O X . . .
$$ | . O O O O X . . .
$$ | 6 O X X O X . . .
$$ | X X X . X X . . .
$$ | . O O . . . . . .
$$ | . . . . . . . . .
$$ | . . . . . . . . .
$$ | . . . . . . . . .[/go]


Edit: Added a black stone to the diagram to make it clear the cut isn't relevant.

Author:  Knotwilg [ Sun Sep 29, 2019 2:12 pm ]
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Click Here To Show Diagram Code
[go]$$Bc
$$ ------------------
$$ | . 1 7 2 . . . . .
$$ | . 4 3 8 O X . . .
$$ | 6 O O O O X . . .
$$ | 5 O X X O X . . .
$$ | X X X . X . . . .
$$ | . O O . . . . . .
$$ | . . . . . . . . .
$$ | . . . . . . . . .
$$ | . . . . . . . . .[/go]

Author:  Kirby [ Sun Sep 29, 2019 3:34 pm ]
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I like Knotwilg's answer... Though, that cut at F15 is screaming at me - it could be worth it to take a "seki" in sente, so that you can whip out that cut at F15 - depending on what the rest of the board is, you might not have a seki for long :-)

Click Here To Show Diagram Code
[go]$$Bc
$$ ------------------
$$ | . 1 5 3 4 . . . .
$$ | 7 2 . . O X . . .
$$ | . O O O O X . . .
$$ | 6 O X X O X . . .
$$ | X X X . X 8 . . .
$$ | . O O . . . . . .
$$ | . . . . . . . . .
$$ | . . . . . . . . .
$$ | . . . . . . . . .[/go]

Author:  hyperpape [ Sun Sep 29, 2019 4:26 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: I think I'll post some games

Thanks, Knotwilg.

Kirby, that could be interesting in some cases. In this one, I just got lazy making the diagram. Black had already connected before white descended on the outside.

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