Life In 19x19

Posted: **Mon Oct 03, 2011 4:23 pm**

What is the most memorable game of Go you've played? I'm talking about a game you played that you could, now and probably for the rest of your life, replay from start to end. A game you've reviewed and shown to countless players. A game you'd want to put on your tombstone (probably one you've won).

Maybe it was memorable because of the game itself; your first and only triple ko, a dragon kill that could never be matched, a massive comeback. Or maybe it was because of the time and effort you put into that game; a game you spent months playing over by e-mail or by a turn-based server, a game that lasted for hours in a big tournament, a game you won over someone many stones stronger than you under-handicapped or not. Or maybe it was because of the person you played. There are many ways a game could be memorable, so here's a thread where you can post some of your most memorable games and explain why it was so memorable to you.

As for myself?

Posted: **Tue Oct 04, 2011 10:22 am**

Most will look at this game and shrug, saying there is nothing out of the ordinary with it except a game with a lot of flaws. But when I think back to the moment I played this game, it meant so much more than that. It was an incredible game. I don't think I'd played a 4k or stronger before at that point in time, and I was just a 15k. I had never gone into a game with that much excitement or as much nerves as I did going into that game. It's just one of those moments that wakes you up to why you play the game in the first place. And I seem to be saying the game a lot. (Random thought.)

Regardless, I should have lost this one big time, but I think it exemplifies life in a lot of ways. You make countless mistakes, you battle people who are/should be superior to you, and yet still figure out a way to win. Guess you could call it a common theme where I live.

Like I said, it's nothing visually impressive, but it's the game that immediately came to mind. That massive capture at the end left me dumbfounded, to be honest!

Posted: **Tue Oct 25, 2011 5:46 pm**

The guy who taught me to play go also "loaned" me his copy of Appreciating Famous Games. (John Harriman, if you want your book back, I still have it.) When I was ~10k, I decided to memorize some Shusaku games. AFG has a game between Shuwa and Shusaku, called in the book "The Autumn Leaves Were Falling," and for no particular reason, I started with that one. Move 51 stunned me.

Hikaru fanatics may recognize that game as the first time Akira unknowingly goes up against Sai. When I was reading the book, Hikaru no Go was still in the future. http://youtu.be/16y31rW1Sts?t=1m40s

Later, Akira freaks out when he sees Black 75. http://youtu.be/16y31rW1Sts?t=3m20s

Later on, in one of my games at the 2002 Canadian Open, I saw a way to connect two groups that I recognized from this same Shuwa-Shusaku game. I think I was playing as ~8k, and I had to give a handicap -- probably too much of a handicap, since even though I saved my stones, I lost the game.

There are lots of other games I remember for one reason or another, but all in all, I guess that Shuwa-Shusaku game is the most memorable for me so far.

Life In 19x19

Memorable games.

Memorable games.

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