SDK Life & Death from a tournament game
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SDK Life & Death from a tournament game
I went to a tournament last weekend and saw a life and death problem in a fairly pure form in a real game, so I thought I'd share. It helped that I'd only recently done two books that had similar problems.
Black to play and live. I'll post the rest of the game with the solution I used later (maybe multiple work?)
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Re: SDK Life & Death from a tournament game
Interesting game, was 97 a ko threat?
I'm looking forward to seeing how the game went
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There really is a lot of aji here, and also a capturing race, but I'll leave it for others to do some reading too.I'm looking forward to seeing how the game went
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Re: SDK Life & Death from a tournament game
Guru:
And the full game in question (Obviously I'm black):
This game wasn't an amazing performance, but it was sure fun to play, and it was cool that it condensed into such a clear-cut tsumego.
And the full game in question (Obviously I'm black):
This game wasn't an amazing performance, but it was sure fun to play, and it was cool that it condensed into such a clear-cut tsumego.
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Re: SDK Life & Death from a tournament game
Topazg:
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Re: SDK Life & Death from a tournament game
topazg wrote:Ah, apologies
Not at all, it was me who was unclear. =)
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Re: SDK Life & Death from a tournament game
Hmm...I'm a little surprised White resigned there. Seems a bit premature imo.
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Re: SDK Life & Death from a tournament game
Araban wrote:Hmm...I'm a little surprised White resigned there. Seems a bit premature imo.
Yeah, but I guess white is not as strong as you Araban. Apparently they felt it was hopeless...
Chew Terr wrote:Guru:
@Chew yeah that's more or less it
. By the way, please just call me David everyone (Go Game Guru is the name of our site, but seriously, I don't go around calling myself that... It's kind of awkward now that I made this account early on and then started using my own picture instead of our logo. I don't believe I can change it now. 
). And here's another interesting idea to consider...
at 
- exchanging 'a' for 'b' is aji keshi and also loses liberties.
is on the board black has a tesuji. If white still tries to kill - it's pointless and wastes ko threats/aji, so white shouldn't - but strictly hypothetically...Chew Terr wrote:This game wasn't an amazing performance, but it was sure fun to play, and it was cool that it condensed into such a clear-cut tsumego.
Yeah, it's really fun when you start seeing the applications of things you've learned. Keep at it!