Life In 19x19

In the resulting joseki, incidentally, Shusaku's move 25 was labelled bad and should be the slide at 29 - but this is a point that has already been made by human commentators.

There is a commentary in INVINCIBLE that Shusaku faced it for the first time. This is wrong. He played the "bad" move 25 ...

Just for the record, it's Shuei's grave just behind Ishida.

A great work by one of China's most illustrious masters. Big thank yous!

I don't think the obvious has been stated yet,
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I think there is still one bit missing. I don't know of anything showing that amateurs do study old games (versus modern ones). Certainly we are advised to time and again. But what do people really do? In my case, I think the main source of games ...

Let's have a round of applause for this game's recorders...

I think we can be pretty sure that they played it out to the end (at least because of the "silver tael" rule mentioned by John F elsewhere. The record books need to be rewritten .

One of the Shi Dingan - Hu Zhaolin games (1740HCEM131) may be another candidate. Moreover, the first capture comes as late as on the move 96. Shi must have earned a lot of silver coins from Ironhead Hu by this game...