lovelove wrote:b93 is hane for sure if my eyes aren't wrong.
Your eyes are definitely wrong (or you're looking at the wrong move) - see the definition for hane http://senseis.xmp.net/?Hane
The important part of the definition is bending around your opponent's stones.
Sometimes it is best to look for the source of miscommunication, instead of just being right. B93 in the title match game looks to be hane at the end of two stones. The original question, however, is about the b93 in the challenger match game. It looks like lovelove's eyes are fine, and he is not looking at the wrong move, he is looking at the wrong game.
b93 in the challenger's game looks like a wonderfully thick move to me. It limits white's endgame on the left, more importantly it makes it harder for white to seal black in because of the weak group on the lower left. In fact, it further weakens it enough that white essentially treats it as sente and reaches out to the group with his next two moves.
My days of not taking you seriously are certainly coming to a middle
handa711 wrote:How to read the result on Wbaduk? I watched the whole game and still doesn't know who won...
W+5.5
Takao Shinji has a blog that I read regularly. He was in Kyushu for the game. At the lunch break he posted that Black was better (形勢は、黒が、良さそう) but 3 hours later he posted an update that White stood better, together with the puzzled inquiry, "When/how did White become better?" (白が良さそう。いつの間に、白が、良くなったんだろ？).
Dave Sigaty
"Short-lived are both the praiser and the praised, and rememberer and the remembered..."
- Marcus Aurelius; Meditations, VIII 21
Iyama won game 2, seemed quite convincing to me. His reading just felt sharper the way he kept surviving all over the left side of the board, in somewhat a reversal of styles as I thought Cho was the one whose groups were 'charmed' and hard to kill.
I may have been too late to view the prior game, but I looked on wbaduk.com and couldn't see the game (about 90 minutes after it started, I think). I'm blind, or it was over, or it's hidden. Can anyone provide a link to the page where it will be easily found?
