Life In 19x19

Playing someone who's clearly stronger than you can be very exciting but it does get tough to keep the wheels from falling off as you move through the later phases of the game.

Go to move 171.

Hhm! Given the subject line I am most surprised at this admission. I figured the Joel Nelson would be male.

DrStraw wrote:Hhm! Given the subject line I am most surprised at this admission. I figured the Joel Nelson would be male.

Lol, only a male that knows what they like...

Excercise for move : Kill the entire lower left w corner

It's no big deal and none of my business, but may I suggest submitting your game reviews requests in the "Game Analysis" subforum?

[admin] Good point. I moved it. -JB [/admin]

schawipp wrote:Excercise for move : Kill the entire lower left w corner

I thought of that but it looked like I he would win out anyways and I would just waste a great ko threat...

Joelnelsonb wrote:

schawipp wrote:Excercise for move : Kill the entire lower left w corner

I thought of that but it looked like I he would win out anyways and I would just waste a great ko threat...

Joelnelsonb wrote:

schawipp wrote:Excercise for move : Kill the entire lower left w corner

I thought of that but it looked like I he would win out anyways and I would just waste a great ko threat...

Interesting, my assessment of the position after the kill is completely different. Do you have a rough score estimation for the position after the kill?

schawipp wrote:

Joelnelsonb wrote:

schawipp wrote:Excercise for move : Kill the entire lower left w corner

I thought of that but it looked like I he would win out anyways and I would just waste a great ko threat...

Interesting, my assessment of the position after the kill is completely different. Do you have a rough score estimation for the position after the kill?

Has he seen the kill?

No, what I meant was: I was well aware that there was the potential to kill the whole corner, however, it looked like he would live with ko anyways and I would've burnt a very valuable threat (given that with one extra move in the position, I would kill for sure)

Joelnelsonb wrote:No, what I meant was: I was well aware that there was the potential to kill the whole corner, however, it looked like he would live with ko anyways and I would've burnt a very valuable threat (given that with one extra move in the position, I would kill for sure)

There was no ko.

edit afterwards... I now see Bill's post and thought he meant for the corner to somehow still live. There is nothing big enough there as Bill shows.

Joelnelsonb wrote:No, what I meant was: I was well aware that there was the potential to kill the whole corner, however, it looked like he would live with ko anyways and I would've burnt a very valuable threat (given that with one extra move in the position, I would kill for sure)

I have edited the SGF to indicate what we are talking about. Go to move 85.



Edited for correctness.

Haha, that would've been sick to have pulled that off (for me, anyways). I guess I put too much of my focus into living in the corner.

Silly me! I overlooked the right way to win the ko.

SGF file edited.