I remember reading about the shortest pro game with all yose moves finished. Cannot locate that game now. But the following must be close to that record:

http://www.go4go.net/go/games/sgfview/32684

Even in such a short game there is an interesting ko fight.

Not yet close; see below.



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It would be interesting to know at what point Takemiya thought he had gone astray and was behind. He seems to have quite quietly accepted his fate. Does the original game source show how much time was used?

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I seems like k12 is too good a move and it's hard for black from then on, so perhaps h10 is wrong?

Takemiya got beat at his own game.

is a counter to the yonrensei. Go Seigen recommends it. Was it his idea?

surprised me, as it lets White get the last big play of the opening with . To me, White looks good over the whole board.

was a cool move.

surprised me. I mean, why bother?

was also a cool move, as Uberdude notes.

also surprised me. Why didn't he invade the left side? says, I have won, when he really hadn't.

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Visualize whirled peas.

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White used 2 hours and 36 minutes and Black used 1 hour and 21 minutes.

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Nie Weiping beat Takemiya with it in 1987 in the Japan China Super Go. This game is commented in Yuan Zhou's Master Play style of lots of pros book.

But the first occurrence in GoGoD is in 1976 by Takemiya himself against Yamabe. It seems that being an expert in the yonrensei means he also know what moves are good against it .

Hoist on his own petard.

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At some point, doesn't thinking have to go on?
— Winona Adkins

Visualize whirled peas.

Everything with love. Stay safe.

My feeble eyes don't see it this way. Look at move 52 (White enclosing the last corner), then fast forward to the end of the game. It seems from move 52 to the end, all of the up for grabs areas go to white. I can't help but think black could have played better. Would be interesting to get Takemiya's take on what he felt was the losing move.

Thanks for your information. They 'wasted' too many moves on that ko fight. In fact black's territory (more than 130 points without capturing any big group) is about 10 points more than that in Takemiya-Cho's game, giving me the wrong impression.