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Posted: Sat Nov 01, 2014 7:46 pm
by EdLee
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Re: #244 Bill vs Ed
Posted: Sun Nov 02, 2014 5:34 am
by Aidoneus
Very hard freeze, down to 22 F last night, sure glad to have power again. The polar vortex really arrived early this year. (A year almost without a summer here in the Great Lakes region. Not that I'm complaining, really. We went without AC and only occasionally needed to run fans.)
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Re: #244 Bill vs Ed
Posted: Sun Nov 02, 2014 7:05 am
by Bill Spight
Re: #244 Bill vs Ed
Posted: Sun Nov 02, 2014 7:45 am
by Aidoneus
I've had to lock up my pick axe to keep from mining these hidden comments!
Posted: Sun Nov 02, 2014 12:44 pm
by EdLee
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Posted: Sun Nov 02, 2014 12:59 pm
by EdLee
For beginners. Instead of
, the normal sequence:
$$B
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or B can kill the corner.
Then, B can add
(a) in gote to capture
and become very thick.
Or, if B feels he's strong enough locally and globally,
he can omit
(a) and tenuki,
but this gives W a chance to do something with
.
For beginners.
seems to be a common mistake at these levels.
Maybe B was worried about
--
but after
atari, B has miai of (a) and (b),
so it's no problem for B --
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On
I was going to offer the standard trigger,
-
.
but I'm still very unclear about B's level.
There was a small chance he wouldn't play it.
I'm still playing some probes to see how B replies.
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Posted: Sun Nov 02, 2014 1:14 pm
by EdLee
Variation:
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, options for
:
Connect solidly at (a);
Connect with the tiger's mouth (b), but this allows
Extend to (c), but this may give up the corner.
If
, then
atari, this is a simple way to give up the corner.
I'm not sure of this result.
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If
connects, this leads to a local fight:
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Continuation. The corner probably still dies.
is damaged.
I'm not sure of this result.
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Re: #244 Bill vs Ed
Posted: Sun Nov 02, 2014 1:32 pm
by Aidoneus
Fooling around with my new iPad mini 2. Gonna decide my first book for it, so I may not respond again for awhile.
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Posted: Sun Nov 02, 2014 1:35 pm
by EdLee
Congrats on your new iPad mini 2. Is it your first ever iPad ?
Your last two move numbers were off by 2:
should've been
should've been
.
Posted: Sun Nov 02, 2014 2:08 pm
by EdLee
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Re:
Posted: Sun Nov 02, 2014 2:27 pm
by Aidoneus
EdLee wrote: Congrats on your new iPad mini 2. Is it your first ever iPad ?
Your last two move numbers were off by 2:
should've been
should've been
.
First iPad (or iPod or iPhone, for that matter). Though my first Mac was a 512k machine back in 1986. And I still have an old pre-Intel Mac running Panther.
Sorry about messing up the move numbers!
Re: #244 Bill vs Ed
Posted: Sun Nov 02, 2014 2:33 pm
by Aidoneus
I must have lost the thread of this game, as it feels like it's about to unravel.
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Posted: Sun Nov 02, 2014 2:59 pm
by EdLee
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Posted: Sun Nov 02, 2014 3:01 pm
by EdLee
You can still go back to your previous posts and fix the move numbers: click the "edit" button.
22°F is crazy!
Re:
Posted: Sun Nov 02, 2014 3:18 pm
by Aidoneus
EdLee wrote: You can still go back to your previous posts and fix the move numbers: click the "edit" button.
22°F is crazy!
OK, I will, thanks. And I'm just grateful that wasn't the low Friday night, which was about 32 F.
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, the normal sequence:
or B can kill the corner.
(a) in gote to capture 
and become very thick.
--
atari, B has miai of (a) and (b),
I was going to offer the standard trigger, 
.
, options for 
:
atari (c);
atari, this is a simple way to give up the corner.
is damaged.
should've been 
. 
