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Letting him hane is deadly, so I can neither tenuki nor hane myself.
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Someday I want to be strong enough to earn KGS[-].
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It encloses more space, and does not allow my dying stone at K3 to cause trouble with a hane. The down side is that it allows a secure connection. MHO must realize this, therefore I conclude that he must be planning to cut through near where would be.
( Actually, even after , the connection still can be broken, but it probably costs black too much to do it. )
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Anyway, my goal is to maintain the connection in sente. If it has to be in gote, I might as well tenuki to some big endgame plays or just seal the center.
$$Wcm91 Prisoners captured: :w2: :b3:
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There are two big plays on the board, and two medium-sized ones.
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The upper left is a double sente worth about 15 points.
The lower right ( S2 by white lives! ) is big...it is hard to count...maybe 25-30 points to the first player. It is dual gote.
The lower left - connecting or disconnecting my stones - is also around 25-30 points, and also gote for both.
The middle - where I played - is worth maybe 20 points...but is also hard to count. It is hard to say if it is sente or gote when I play it. The PITA is that it is big sente for him.
If he plays 1 as below, and I do not respond, 3 hurts as he rips his way into the center:
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So, I really have to take the big middle play which looks rather passive. But it puts me about 20 to 25 points up with yose looming.
I'll allow him either one of the big lower side plays. They are both gote so if he takes one, I'll take the other and I'm still 20-25 up. He then takes the 15 point sente play in the upper left. I'm 5-10 points up.
At that point, the temperature has dropped enough that my most recent move in the center is sente. He defends, and I'm ahead going into yose with sente.
That is the plan. There is enough room in it for several serious misreads and at least one mid-sized hallucination, so I won't declare this a win just yet. But I think that the odds favor me.
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I really don't think there's a way to come back, score-wise. I counted, and it doesn't look good. I'm going to make one last attempt at violence by pushing and cutting here, then resign if I don't like what I see.
Someday I want to be strong enough to earn KGS[-].
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Triggers:
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This can get tricky, and there are many sequences in which I am a stone away from disaster, but I belive that I read it out properly before I played . Either I am wrong and he discovered something vicious, or he is getting desperate. If I have misread, at worst I still have the ko at N6/N7.
I resign. Playing further would be silly. You're too far ahead, and you've gotten into your head the silly notion that you'd like to keep all of your points. Thank you very much for the game. Sorry my play wasn't good enough to give you as good a game as I'd have liked.
Someday I want to be strong enough to earn KGS[-].
@Terr: Thanks for the game. I feel like I got away with easy plays near the end, as if you were really distracted by something. I was way behind after about 20 moves.
@Topazg, MW, Ed, Loons, and others: Thanks for the comments. I must go back and read them at some length.
@Violence:
Violence wrote:Am I the only one who thinks Joaz's sequences range from decent to normal to completely insane?
Sometime we must find out if you can play well enough to back up comments like that.
Joaz Banbeck wrote:@Terr: Thanks for the game. I feel like I got away with easy plays near the end, as if you were really distracted by something. I was way behind after about 20 moves.
Thanks. I'm working through the game's comments now, which I've been eager to do for a while. Yeah, there was some life stuff interfering, but that's hardly a valid complaint in a game with no time limits. If I were using my time properly, I would take time on each move, regardless of stress level. Thanks again! I'll let you know if I have any questions on your comments.
Someday I want to be strong enough to earn KGS[-].
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Double sente? But when white played in that area black tenukied! So I think it is only Black's sente. It's not clear Black should use it though because it eliminates the possibility of saving the stones outright. So Black moving there could be aji-keshi.
Joaz Banbeck wrote:There are two big plays on the board, and two medium-sized ones.
$$Wcm91 Prisoners captured: :w2: :b3:
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[go]$$Wcm91 Prisoners captured: :w2: :b3:
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The upper left is a double sente worth about 15 points.
The lower right ( S2 by white lives! ) is big...it is hard to count...maybe 25-30 points to the first player. It is dual gote.
The lower left - connecting or disconnecting my stones - is also around 25-30 points, and also gote for both.
The middle - where I played - is worth maybe 20 points...but is also hard to count. It is hard to say if it is sente or gote when I play it. The PITA is that it is big sente for him.
Another strange comment about double sente. If the upper left is really double sente, then white should play there in sente, and then play in the middle next, in order to get both.
[go]$$Bcm80 Prisoners captured:
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$$ | . . X O . O . . . . . . . . O X X . . |
$$ | . . X X O O . . . . . . . . . O X X . |
$$ | . . O O X O . . . . . b . . . O O . . |
$$ | . . O X X . . . . . . . . O . . . . . |
$$ | . . . X . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
$$ | . . X , . . . . . , . . . . . , O . . |
$$ | . . . . . . . . . . . . . O O . . . . |
$$ | . . . . . . . . . . . . O . . O X X . |
$$ | . . . . . X . . . . . . X O O X . O . |
$$ | . . . X . . . . . . . X . X O . . . . |
$$ | . . . . . O . . . . . . X X O . X . . |
$$ | . . . X . . . . . , . . . . O , X . . |
$$ | . . . . . O . . . O . . . . . . O X . |
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Will you play 'b' on this board? Probably you would think it's too deep. What if I told you there was a 5 point bonus if you could prevent 'a' from being white's territory? Oh a 5 point bribe isn't enough?
The 5 stones in the 'a' area are garbage stones, and as garbage stones should have very little effect on where you choose to play next.