Life In 19x19

Finally, I would very much appreciate if Carlo Metta came out and explained why he presented an apparently fabricated game record to the league manager. I do believe he is in principle an honest man who has done a lot for the go community and can continue to do so. I just think he made a mistake ...

Sixth and the last impression came during Tuesday's (29th May) relegation game United Kingdom vs. Italy - game Chris Bryant vs. Carlo Metta. I have never heard about the British player before, but for a 3-dan, he performed very well and bravely. However, he couldn't simply face the power of white ...

@ Dragos vs. Carlo game:

What amazed me the most about white's play in this game was the combo starting from 74 etc. No way an ordinary human 4-dan would be able to find such a sequence (and it wouldn't probably even hit my mind either).



Sorry Lukan, but regarding this sequence. I have just ...

"FiggItaly", may I ask you, what is your rank? If you are a dan player, it's hard to believe you made such a wrong judgement. White played a bit slack in this game, so it was quite a normal close game. White lost it, because of a clear blunder at move 108 - o15 was a greedy overplay and simple L7 ...

"Dragos is a top-European player, who used to have GoR close to 2700 at some point. He can accidentally lose to a 4-dan (it can happen in approximatelly 10-15% cases) of course, but definitely not in this way. Maybe it's not so evident from the game, but it was a complete domination of white stones ...

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