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Re: Jika vs Kirby
Posted: Fri Oct 04, 2019 6:07 pm
by Kirby
$$Wcm21
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Re: Jika vs Kirby
Posted: Fri Oct 04, 2019 6:44 pm
by Bill Spight
My sealed move.
$$Wcm21
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I can't find it in my heart to sacrifice the
stone.
Besides,
breaks a sector line or three.
Posted: Fri Oct 04, 2019 7:24 pm
by EdLee
Hi Bill,
Let's see if Jika goes for fighting spirit or more peaceful:
$$B
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Re: Jika vs Kirby
Posted: Wed Oct 09, 2019 9:43 am
by Jika
Kirby,
Re: Jika vs Kirby
Posted: Wed Oct 09, 2019 12:59 pm
by Jika
$$Wm21
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Hm, strange. Seems I had a wrong (older) position in my editor and after trying I - landed at my move 28 and wanted to play it, only to notice I already had!
So, even if it was a bad move, something within me really wants to play it.
Now, having started there, I go on ignoring Kirby.
I considered
$$Bcm30
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but thought it would be blocked and separated
$$Bcm30
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Re: Jika vs Kirby
Posted: Wed Oct 09, 2019 1:44 pm
by Bill Spight
$$Bcm30
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If this play does no good, . . .
$$Bcm30
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What good does this play do?
Re: Jika vs Kirby
Posted: Wed Oct 09, 2019 2:52 pm
by Kirby
$$Wm31
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Re: Jika vs Kirby
Posted: Mon Oct 14, 2019 11:47 am
by Jika
$$Wm31
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As I've already PMed to Bill, our thinking styles seem to differ a lot:
I see "small" groups, but not what bigger moves do or might do.
OK, I see now what Kirby is doing.
I've tried imagining I was a child and this was a picture I want to colour in.
Kirby's stones would be easy to colour in, mine would not.
My intention with this move is to say "I'm not dead yet."
I considered
$$Wm31
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because it might create an area to colour in in the right.
However, since Kirby's upper right group has broken through to the centre, it would not help my L13 stone anyway.
I also considerd
$$Wm31
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but I think on the whole it would not trouble Kirby much (because he has seen it but does not play there).
I think Kirby might go on devouring the board, maybe like so
$$Wm31
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and not mind very much if I get what... 6 points? while he gets the rest of the board, because I refuse to play there. Okay, I still do.
I could play there (32), there (34), there (36)... whatever...
$$Wm31
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Re: Jika vs Kirby
Posted: Wed Oct 16, 2019 6:30 pm
by Kirby
$$Wm31
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I’d like to kill everything, but I don’t think it’s possible.
Another option is this:
$$Wm31
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Which is more clear, but less ambitious..
I’m losing, so let’s be ambitious.
Re: Jika vs Kirby
Posted: Wed Oct 23, 2019 9:30 am
by Jika
$$Wm31
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I had to choose between two ideas and liked this a tiny bit better (to be honest, I played the other option first, then thought "Oh, generally the rejected move is the better one...", and changed my mind, now being prepared to hear that whatever I reject is a tiny bit less nonsense than my actual move...
"The stone that the builders refused..."
I considered this
$$Wm31
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I think that would be the best to follow my intention, listening to my stones' cries "no, don't let him separate all of us!!".
Everything else (without a strategy that is more than 1 move, like I do) feels random.
Re: Jika vs Kirby
Posted: Wed Oct 23, 2019 12:20 pm
by Kirby
$$Wm31
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I was split on this move. Initially, I thought, "well, he ignored, so I'll kill everything on the left:
$$Wm31
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I felt confident I could live with my group.
Thinking a bit more, though, there's some value to strengthening my group a little bit: the weaker my group is, the more he can attack me, and the more points he'll get for free on the right.
So in a way, defending this group is an intention to avoid giving her too many points on the right.
And besides, the left is still somewhat weak - maybe I can still kill that stuff later.
Re: Jika vs Kirby
Posted: Wed Oct 30, 2019 9:32 am
by Jika
$$Wm31
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I've considered
$$Wm31
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or something around that, to try to prevent those stones from being separated too.
But I thought that Kirby maybe won't sacrifice the stones on the upper right, so I can still see how to react to his move after that.
I've noticed Kirby's move is similar (I think) to what I rejected as my move 32.
So maybe I was right then to assume that this is interesting territory.
Re: Jika vs Kirby
Posted: Wed Oct 30, 2019 9:48 am
by Kirby
$$Wm31
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Re: Jika vs Kirby
Posted: Sat Nov 02, 2019 3:58 am
by Jika
$$Wm31
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Re: Jika vs Kirby
Posted: Tue Nov 05, 2019 6:51 pm
by Kirby
$$Wm31
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stone. 
breaks a sector line or three. 
