Rerun of the Tromp-Taylor bet

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Who do you think will win?

Tromp 3-0
4
10%
Tromp 3-1
6
15%
Tromp 3-2
5
13%
Zen 3-0
5
13%
Zen 3-1
13
33%
Zen 3-2
6
15%
 
Total votes: 39

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Re: Rerun of the Tromp-Taylor bet

Post by gogameguru »

At this point (move 122) black can't be killed. White played A for 122 in the game.

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[go]$$Wc White plays to kill
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$$ | . . . . . . . . X . . . . . . . . . . |
$$ | . X . . X X . X O . . . . X O X . . . |
$$ | . O X X O X X O O . . . O . X O O . . |
$$ | . . O O O . . X O X . . . . X X X . . |
$$ | . O . . . O . . O O O O O O O O X . . |
$$ | . . . . . . O O X O X X X X X X . . . |
$$ | . . X X . . . O X X O . . . . . . . . |
$$ | . . O X . . X X O X . . . . . . . . . |
$$ | . . O . X . . . O X . . . . . . . . . |
$$ | . . . O . O . X X X . X . . . X . . . |
$$ | . . . . . . . O O 8 . O X . . X . . . |
$$ | . . . . . . . . 0 9 . . . O . O X . . |
$$ | . . . . O . 3 O 4 . . . O . . O X . . |
$$ | . . . . O X 1 2 6 5 . . . . . . X . . |
$$ | . . . O X . X . X . . . . . . . . . . |
$$ | . . . O X X . 7 X O O . . O . X X X . |
$$ | . . . O O X X X O X . . . . O O X O . |
$$ | . . . O X a O . O O . . . . . . O . . |
$$ | . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
$$ +---------------------------------------+[/go]


continued...

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[go]$$Wcm10 White goes all out, but now 'a' and 'b' are miai for black.
$$ +---------------------------------------+
$$ | . . . . . . . . X . . . . . . . . . . |
$$ | . X . . X X . X O . . . . X O X . . . |
$$ | . O X X O X X O O . . . O . X O O . . |
$$ | . . O O O . . X O X . . . . X X X . . |
$$ | . O . . . O . . O O O O O O O O X . . |
$$ | . . . . . . O O X O X X X X X X . . . |
$$ | . . X X . . . O X X O . . . . . . . . |
$$ | . . O X . . X X O X . . . . . . . . . |
$$ | . . O . X . . . O X . . . . . . . . . |
$$ | . . . O . O . X X X . X . . . X . . . |
$$ | . . . . . . 1 O O X . O X . . X . . . |
$$ | . . . . . . . . X O 2 . . O . O X . . |
$$ | . . . . O . O O X 3 . . O . . O X . . |
$$ | . . . . O X O X X O 5 7 . . . . X . . |
$$ | . . . O X . X . X 4 6 . . . . . . . . |
$$ | . . . O X X . O X O O c . O . X X X . |
$$ | . . . O O X X X W X b . . . O O X O . |
$$ | . . . O X a O 8 W W . . . . . . O . . |
$$ | . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
$$ +---------------------------------------+[/go]

White's 'a' (122 in the game) was a subtle move. After that this sequence is broken because white can just answer 'b' with 'c' and connect the marked stones under without problems. It's quite a good move because it takes quite a lot of profit in sente at this stage in the game.

I don't know what Tromp read out here and why he didn't reinforce this group. It would've been a good idea to reinforce earlier too, but black could've also played the invasion in the bottom left better and not ended up with a weak group here.
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Re: Rerun of the Tromp-Taylor bet

Post by badukJr »

In game 3 Tromp resigned in 65 moves.

Zen leads 2-1.
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Re: Rerun of the Tromp-Taylor bet

Post by Pippen »

Here we have game 3 which Tromp resigned. He did again play nirensei as White. I agree with him till his move 28, but move 30 at R11 was a mistake for me (he should have played Q10). It led to black building up naturally a big center moyo that had too much influence in comparison with what White got with R11 and follow up moves. What do u think? IMO if you play nirensei you need to play fast and make sure you don't get behind too much in moyos and influence otherwise you will stand the difficult task to go against superior influence while at the same time your corners can be invaded, so that you can become quickly empty handed. Basically with nirensei you are saying: I want to spread out my stones and don't care for territory rather for influence resp. destroying influence of my opponent. Tromp never does that. He constantly ends up in Fuseki with Zen having superior influence while he has just very little territory (because of the 4-4 cornerstones) and inferior influence. Therefore he's forced to take risks Zen can take advantage of.

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Post by Bill Spight »

I have played around with some variations at move 122 in game 2. :)

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Re: Rerun of the Tromp-Taylor bet

Post by SpongeBob »

badukJr wrote:In game 3 Tromp resigned in 65 moves.

Zen leads 2-1.

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Post by imabuddha »

SpongeBob wrote:End of humanity is near ... the Cylons are taking over!! :o :o :o :shock: :-? :-?

Fine by me, as long as I can have a #8. :razz:

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Magicwand wrote:i think i can say for sure that for next 20 years...computer will not beat me.
computer go is improving rapidly but...it gets harder to improve one stone at this point.


Well, one just beat a EGF 3d 3-1 with long time controls..

Are you offering up another bet?
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Post by Joaz Banbeck »

Zen just won 3-1
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Post by daniel_the_smith »

Wow, that was what I voted for in the poll, so I guess I'm happy?
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daniel_the_smith wrote:Wow, that was what I voted for in the poll, so I guess I'm happy?


Yeah, me too...hooray? :-?

I was struck by how much poorer Tromp played in the last few games compared to how well he played in the first one. I can only assume that he was actually based in Europe, and having to play games that started at 2am. Certainly I wouldn't be able to manage that more than once.
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I am not really knowledgeable in zen's records, but from what I've seen human players often do much better the first few games for some reason (e.g. start off winning after giving 2 stones and then losing to zen so much that he drops from 7d to 5d and win about 50% even games).
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Post by Joaz Banbeck »

quantumf wrote:... I can only assume that he was actually based in Europe, and having to play games that started at 2am. Certainly I wouldn't be able to manage that more than once.


I seem to recall a comment among the kibbitzers that he was curently in New York.
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Post by Phelan »

I remember the same, Joaz.
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Post by yoyoma »

Mr. Tromp, I have some money I would like to invest for 14 years. Can you be my adviser?

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Post by palapiku »

Interesting that most people voted 3-1. I did too. Way to go, us :)
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