Looking for the game losing play.
Go to move 251.
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| Author: | EiggHead [ Tue Apr 24, 2012 8:04 pm ] |
| Post subject: | A squeaker |
Crossposted from Study Journal forum .. Here's a very fun game I had played last night against another rusty returnee. His provisional rank was 16k?. But I saw him decimate a 14k with a 2 stone handi and so I offered to play him even. He agreed and it was a blast, ending up with a 0.5 win. Here are my own comments - I didn't really have a plan for my invasion on the right. I stumbled into a living group based on his mistakes. While I was pleased to just make it out alive, I know there is something better to do here. My invasion left, and the resulting ko have me trouble. I botched the ko by trading the corner and lost a ton of points. I get nervous in ko fights, trying to assess ko threats. The result is timid play damaging play. In the endgame, I felt I was almost ever in gote and losing points. I am sure I missed tesuji's along the way that perhaps could have given me a little more edge in the count. Thanks in advance |
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| Author: | emeraldemon [ Tue Apr 24, 2012 9:09 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: A squeaker |
Just a few quick thoughts: 10: Was this intentional? Experiments are good, but f17 is much safer. 26: A weird move, this doesn't seem to pressure the black stones at all. 28: I'd block the other side N3, cutting off the k3 stone. 34 & 36: These feel quite bad to me. You're settling, but black has made a very big right side without much fight. 52: I think this is too deep. You got lucky living. I'd probably play the split around O14, try to pressure the j17 group into giving you thickness. 73: If black connects at S11, I'm pretty sure all the white stones die... 132: Don't fight the ko, just capture with B11. 186: Pretty sure L19 is bigger than this. |
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| Author: | EiggHead [ Wed Apr 25, 2012 6:52 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: A squeaker |
Thanks emerald ... Would something like 32 at Q7 be a better move to contest the right, even at the expense of settling the N4 group? I especially like 132 at B11, thanks again! |
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| Author: | Bill Spight [ Wed Apr 25, 2012 7:56 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: A squeaker |
Looking for the game losing play. Go to move 251. |
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| Author: | EdLee [ Wed Apr 25, 2012 8:06 am ] |
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EiggHead wrote: Would something like 32 at Q7 be a better move to contest the right... Bill Spight wrote: Looking for the game losing play It's not easy to answer your question about  at Q7 --there are bigger, more fundamental problems elsewhere. Listen to Bill.
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| Author: | Bill Spight [ Wed Apr 25, 2012 8:19 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: |
EdLee wrote: EiggHead wrote: Would something like 32 at Q7 be a better move to contest the right... Bill Spight wrote: Looking for the game losing play It's not easy to answer your question about at Q7 --there are bigger, more fundamental problems elsewhere. Listen to Bill. Thanks, Ed, but I just addressed a small problem. As for the problem of , it can be traced back to earlier plays.  ,  , and  would have been better at O-03.  would have been better at O-15. Under the circumstances, was not bad.
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| Author: | EiggHead [ Wed Apr 25, 2012 12:08 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: A squeaker |
Thank you Ed and Bill ... I love how when doing fuseki problems  I can maintain a calm that is seems impossible when I'm actually playing 
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