109. Loons vs. Kirby

Kirby · Post by **Kirby** » Fri Apr 29, 2011 5:39 am

Laman · Post by **Laman** » Sat Apr 30, 2011 1:11 pm

haha, even when Kirby is winning (and declares he thinks he is winning), he still sounds too worried to me

. but that might be just my feeling

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being black my first instinct would be to make white suffer for his tenuki by playing 'a'. seems like just pushing white down to second line might work well enough. and it is a strong sente

but the more i look at it, i think Kirby is possibly right that the left side is even bigger. i like 'b' in the area, solidifying black's territory and aiming at reduction of white's top, for example b D17 becomes interesting after 'b'. or just E16, F16

hmm, after such analysis it is not so easy to decide where to play as i would thought

Loons · Post by **Loons** » Sat Apr 30, 2011 6:00 pm

Oscar Wilde wrote:This suspense is terrible. I hope it lasts!

Man, the building suspense is unbearable.

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Here are some things I have been thinking about. Obviously not complete ideas, after all, it's not my sente.

Edit: More groundedly, I'm thinking about what-if-black-pushes-out-with-that-left-moyo-G7-or-something. I'm not especially worried about the right, Kirby has too many holes himself. But I really don't want to have to invade the left, I'd much rather just play some yose at the edges.

Edit 2: Hmm, playing with move orders from currently on hold ideas, what if P10 Q10 R10 Q11 R8 (sort of variations)! Mannnn I wish I thought of this a few moves earlier. Maybe there are holes, maybe it will stay applicable... Something is there.

Kirby · Post by **Kirby** » Mon May 02, 2011 9:49 am

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Well played, Loons. I really don't know how to handle this situation... So I will just try my best.

Loons · Post by **Loons** » Mon May 02, 2011 12:46 pm

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Haha, thanks. I'm afraid I don't know how to handle this situation either... At least you made this move easy for me

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SpongeBob · Post by **SpongeBob** » Mon May 02, 2011 3:44 pm

@Kirby:

Kirby · Post by **Kirby** » Mon May 02, 2011 4:21 pm

@SpongeBob:

I said earlier:

To all kibitzers, I promise that I will not play until I find a route I am totally happy with.

Well, the route that I am happy with is one that puts the left side to use. Here is what I'm thinking of for my next move, but I am contemplating some of the details a bit:

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I played high on the left, and it's hard to turn it into territory in one move. So I don't think I can attempt to. Instead, I want to make a moyo with my high stones, threaten him to invade it, and then profit from the attack.

I want to play a move that stretches out, like the one marked in the diagram above. I think that the move I actually just played in the game helps toward supporting the stone I'm planning on playing.

I also feel that, since Loons played low, the last exchange benefits me more than him. That's because he's already guaranteed territory in that area. The only way I would not want to is if the move were aji keshi. Maybe if I wanted to sometime play one spot higher than where I actually played in the game:

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This might be an attacking way to play, but with the stones I have on the board already, I think moyo is the strategy I need to adopt on that part of the board. So that's the route I'm happy with.

Maybe I'm wrong, but that was my reasoning, anyway.

Kirby · Post by **Kirby** » Mon May 02, 2011 4:26 pm

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Loons · Post by **Loons** » Mon May 02, 2011 5:41 pm

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Four exchanges to endgame I think.

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So the limiting exchange or reluctant invasion at four will be the last midgame. It's possible that the right will degenerate into some kind of fighting, but I think it should be fairly straightforward.

Kirby · Post by **Kirby** » Tue May 03, 2011 4:01 am

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Loons · Post by **Loons** » Tue May 03, 2011 4:17 pm

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Kirby · Post by **Kirby** » Tue May 03, 2011 5:24 pm

Kirby · Post by **Kirby** » Tue May 03, 2011 5:33 pm

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There's no way G13 could turn out well for me.

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Yuck. I could play one below :b4:

, above, but it's still a terrible result.

Trigger for Loons:

Loons · Post by **Loons** » Tue May 03, 2011 6:17 pm

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Why is it that your diagrams always have spaces in front of them ?

Edit; trigger accepted, I'm going to think a while on my next move though.

Loons · Post by **Loons** » Tue May 03, 2011 6:40 pm

Click Here To Show Diagram Code: [go]$$Wcm76 Prisoner Count: B-0 W-1 $$ --------------------------------------- $$ | . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | $$ | . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | $$ | . . O O . O . . . . O X X X . . . . . | $$ | . . . X 9 . . . . , O X O . . X X X . | $$ | . . . X O O X . . . O O . . . . O O . | $$ | . . . X X X O O . . . . . . . . . . . | $$ | . . . . . . X . . . . . . . . . . . . | $$ | . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | $$ | . . . . . . . . . . . . . . X . O . . | $$ | . . . X . . . . . , . . . O . , . . . | $$ | . . . . . . . . . . . . . . X . X O . | $$ | . . . . . . . . . . . O X . . . . X . | $$ | . . . . . . . . . . . . . O . . . . . | $$ | . . X X . . . . O . . . O . O X . X . | $$ | . . O X . . . . . . O O . X X O O X . | $$ | . . O , . . . X . X O X O O O X X O . | $$ | . . . O . O . . . . X X X O X X O . O | $$ | . . . . . . . . . . . . . X X . O O . | $$ | . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | $$ ---------------------------------------[/go]

Fine, ~~invasion it is~~ keeping my options open it is. Sente would have been a ~~preferable~~ result. (Pretty sure I'm not allowed to be sad about 30 point settled territories, even if they're gote. I say this now, but we'll see what Kirby manages against those weak groups.)

Click Here To Show Diagram Code: [go]$$Wcm76 Prisoner Count: B-0 W-1 $$ --------------------------------------- $$ | o o o o o o o o o . . . . x x x x x x | $$ | o o o o o o o o o . . . . x x x x x x | $$ | . . O O o O o o o o O X X X . x x . . | $$ | . . . X 9 o o o o o O X O . . X X X . | $$ | . . . X O O B o . . O O . . . . O O . | $$ | . . . X X X O O . . . . . . . . . . . | $$ | x x x x x x X . . . . . . . . . . o o | $$ | x x x x . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | $$ | x x x x . . . . . . . . . . X . O . . | $$ | x x x X . . . . . , . . . O . , . . . | $$ | x x B . . . . . . . . . . . X . X O . | $$ | x x x . . . . . . . . O X . . . . X . | $$ | . . . . . . . . . . . . . O . . . x x | $$ | . . X X . . . . O . . . O . O X x X . | $$ | . . O X . . . . . . O O . X X W W X . | $$ | . . O , . . . X . X O X O W W X X O . | $$ | o o . O . O . . . . X X X O X X O o O | $$ | o o o o o . . . . x x x x X X . O O o | $$ | o o o o o . . . . x x x x x . . . o o | $$ ---------------------------------------[/go]

Counting like this. White total 56.5, Black 58+sente (stone added to secure that area). White has two weak groups, black is thin in the centre right. Black has more potential, but probably also has to fix invasion aji.

Oh yeah, Kirby, are you posting diagrams of your counts? I'd like to compare those after the game.

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