GS Caltex Cup

[emeraldemon]

I was rooting for Park Yeonghun in this one, but he wasn't able to pull it off. It's a really exciting game though, lots of intense life and death:

[sgf-full]http://igokisen.web.fc2.com/15gsc.sgf[/sgf-full]

It's ok, he'll get a rematch vs. Won Sungjin in the Myeongin soon enough. I look forward to seeing it.

edit:

What's up with B193? Why not just block at B17?

[ethanb]

I was rooting for Park Yeonghun in this one, but he wasn't able to pull it off. It's a really exciting game though, lots of intense life and death:

[sgf-full]http://igokisen.web.fc2.com/15gsc.sgf[/sgf-full]

It's ok, he'll get a rematch vs. Won Sungjin in the Myeongin soon enough. I look forward to seeing it.

edit:

What's up with B193? Why not just block at B17?

I'm not sure - if he's behind it's only by 1/2 point or so, so I wouldn't think he needs this ko. Maybe he overlooked it thinking white would play the monkey jump. The move he makes instead is 9 points gote.

[gaius]

Really cool game, I'm in awe over the second half of this game! At move 97, I really thought black was ahead. He had more territory and was running in between two white groups nicely. After move 128, I thought that even more. And then, somehow, white pulls off a really big fight in the top center area. Nice!

If black would block at 193, I think the endgame will be decided by the ko in the top right corner. That ko is huge and the territories are quite close. But white will then get a few extra ko threats around O12. Also, blocking like that just feels a little submissive for top-level professional standards, they tend to really go all out on each other nowadays. I guess black decided that he couldn't win that way, and chose to go all or nothing.