Question of opening/reducing

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Re: Question of opening/reducing

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Abyssinica wrote: When a 15k plays a weird move, we assume he's just bad.

When a 9p plays that same weird move, we assume he's profound and knows much more about the game than we do.
The move itself is almost irrelevant. It's the plan that matters, and the devil is always in the details.

I play 9p moves too, but I certainly haven't considered all the angles the way a professional would.
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Re: Question of opening/reducing

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Bill Spight wrote:In a similar position Go Seigen commented on this line of play.
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[go]$$Wc
$$ ---------------------------------------
$$ | . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
$$ | . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . O . . . |
$$ | . . . . . . . . . . O . . O . . X . . |
$$ | . . . O . . . . . , . . . . . X . . . |
$$ | . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
$$ | . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . X . . . |
$$ | . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
$$ | . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
$$ | . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 . . . |
$$ | . . . , . . . . . , . . . . . , . . . |
$$ | . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 . X . . |
$$ | . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
$$ | . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
$$ | . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 1 . . . |
$$ | . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 2 . . . . |
$$ | . . . O . . . . . X . . . . . , . . . |
$$ | . . . . . . 7 . . . . . . . . X . . . |
$$ | . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
$$ | . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
$$ ---------------------------------------[/go]
White is not bad, he said. :)
This is cool. I'm gonna try to find a move like this in my next few games.
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