Playing someone who's clearly stronger than you can be very exciting but it does get tough to keep the wheels from falling off as you move through the later phases of the game.

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Thinking like a go player during a game of chess is like bringing a knife to a gun-fight. Thinking like a chess player during a game of go feels like getting knifed while you're holding a gun...

Go to move 171.

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The Adkins Principle:
At some point, doesn't thinking have to go on?
— Winona Adkins

Visualize whirled peas.

Everything with love. Stay safe.

Hhm! Given the subject line I am most surprised at this admission. I figured the Joel Nelson would be male.

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Still officially AGA 5d but I play so irregularly these days that I am probably only 3d or 4d over the board (but hopefully still 5d in terms of knowledge, theory and the ability to contribute).

Lol, only a male that knows what they like...

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Thinking like a go player during a game of chess is like bringing a knife to a gun-fight. Thinking like a chess player during a game of go feels like getting knifed while you're holding a gun...

Excercise for move : Kill the entire lower left w corner

It's no big deal and none of my business, but may I suggest submitting your game reviews requests in the "Game Analysis" subforum?

[admin] Good point. I moved it. -JB [/admin]

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La victoire est un hasard, la défaite une nécessité.

I thought of that but it looked like I he would win out anyways and I would just waste a great ko threat...

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Thinking like a go player during a game of chess is like bringing a knife to a gun-fight. Thinking like a chess player during a game of go feels like getting knifed while you're holding a gun...

Interesting, my assessment of the position after the kill is completely different. Do you have a rough score estimation for the position after the kill?

Has he seen the kill?

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The Adkins Principle:
At some point, doesn't thinking have to go on?
— Winona Adkins

Visualize whirled peas.

Everything with love. Stay safe.

No, what I meant was: I was well aware that there was the potential to kill the whole corner, however, it looked like he would live with ko anyways and I would've burnt a very valuable threat (given that with one extra move in the position, I would kill for sure)

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Thinking like a go player during a game of chess is like bringing a knife to a gun-fight. Thinking like a chess player during a game of go feels like getting knifed while you're holding a gun...

There was no ko.

edit afterwards... I now see Bill's post and thought he meant for the corner to somehow still live. There is nothing big enough there as Bill shows.

I have edited the SGF to indicate what we are talking about. Go to move 85.



Edited for correctness.

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The Adkins Principle:
At some point, doesn't thinking have to go on?
— Winona Adkins

Visualize whirled peas.

Everything with love. Stay safe.

Haha, that would've been sick to have pulled that off (for me, anyways). I guess I put too much of my focus into living in the corner.

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Thinking like a go player during a game of chess is like bringing a knife to a gun-fight. Thinking like a chess player during a game of go feels like getting knifed while you're holding a gun...

Silly me! I overlooked the right way to win the ko.

SGF file edited.

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The Adkins Principle:
At some point, doesn't thinking have to go on?
— Winona Adkins

Visualize whirled peas.

Everything with love. Stay safe.

That's also the reason, why I edited my post three times