Life In 19x19

Escape Plan 2: Escape from Hades:

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And actually a reasonable-ish looking position and stone handling!

I played the pincer because I felt behind. He agreed I was behind, but he said that I turn on this "switch" too quickly. He said to wait a little bit longer before turning that switch on. That might improve my chances that something will come my way.

This is very interesting to me. It's one of my ...

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I'm nowhere near strong enough to criticise here, but this:

$$Bcm13 Elf's mainline
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$$ | . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
$$ | . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
$$ | . . . O . . . . . . . . . . O ...

Yeah, that was my suspicion too:

$$B
$$ | . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
$$ | . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
$$ | . . . , . . . . . , . . . 1 . , X . . |
$$ | . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 ...

Trying to get in here before anyone else, as these have looked fun and I've gotten perhaps 40% of them so far!

$$Wc Critical groups
$$ ---------------------------------------
$$ | . . . . X . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
$$ | . . O X . X O O O . . . . . . . . . . |
$$ | . . . O X X X X . . O ...

Out of curiosity, where's the following move:

$$W
$$ . . . . . . . |
$$ . . . a a . . |
$$ . . . . 1 . . |
$$ . . . , . . . |
$$ . . . O . . . |
$$ . . . . . . . |
$$ . . . . . . . |
$$ --------------+

Obviously I guess the argument is that it doesn't often arise because approaching it is so ...

From Chess one might argue long time settings don't help you find the strongest player (in terms of their intuition for the game, i.e. Carlsen) but it becomes more of a "who can remember more of stockfish's opening lines and pick appropriate ones based on what you think your opponent prepared too ...

I am constantly feeling like an obsolete player, can I join this club?

As I apparently still have mod powers, I shall attempt to wear a mod hat without abusing them.

I don't particularly see an inherent issue in holding a very strong view about Japanese professionals being weaker than any others, everyone has a right both to hold it and express it. However, a number ...

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$$ . . . . 1 . . . |
$$ . . . X O 2 W . |
$$ . . O 3 X O . . |
$$ . . . . X . . . |
$$ . . . . . . . . |
$$ . . . . X . 4 . |
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In chess in particular there's also the issue of booking venues / sponsorships / TV and commentator coverage etc. When it was a 20 game title match with "incumbent remains if drawn", you knew there were 20 matches to be played, no more, no less. As soon as "drawing to retain the title" was removed ...

After Carlsen offered the draw in the final classical game and before he won the rapids, Kasparov said:

In light of this shocking draw offer from Magnus in a superior position with more time, I reconsider my evaluation of him being the favorite in rapids. Tiebreaks require tremendous nerves and ...

As a spectator, I'm always more interested in interesting games, particularly complicated ones that lead to a decisive result. In chess, not only is the opening well enough theorised that games at the top level end up being "draws from the beginning to the end" or "someone surprised someone else to ...

You could do a lot worse than looking through Takemiya Masaki title matches