MikeKyle v. TelegraphGo (Blind)

[TelegraphGo]

Move coming by Monday.

Comments:

With the time since the last move, it may appear that I've been distracted from the game, but I really haven't. Almost every day since the last move, I've taken at least 5 minutes to try to find an idea here. Multiple moves seem so close to working that I get this tingling in my bones, but everything I've looked at appears to have a concrete refutation. The problem with aji-searching while blindfolded is that it's so much harder to convince myself that I've exhausted every possibility.

Still, it's time to decide. I'm going to be doing my best shot at an accurate count of the finished endgame where I just back off with a tigers mouth at C11 tomorrow. If he can make a generously-sized endgame mistake and still win, then I'm going to play the trickiest move I can right now and go down in flames. If he could lose with one moderate endgame mistake, then I'll back off and see how the endgame goes.

In other news, I got a new computer recently, just in time for isolation

I immediately hopped on Tygem, and managed an 8-game winning streak, so I think I might be a Tygem 6d for the first time by Monday. I also beat a 2600 in 13x13 for the first time on GoQuuest recently, so life is going good on my couch over here

I'm also going to be streaming again, starting this weekend, so check out http://www.twitch.tv/telegraphgo at some point for some sweet Lee Changho game coverage. I gotta get my endgame sharpened up!

[TelegraphGo]

Sorry, still thinking, game is really hard right now.

In the meantime, I just came across this video on Youtube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJzZBacUl7c

I'm pretty sure that the video is mistitled - seems like it should be Ryan Li, not Eric Lui. With the blindfold, I have no idea whether it's actually Bao Yun or not. Still, I'm very curious to ask Ryan Li about the experience, but the best way I know to get hold of him is by Youtube comment

[MikeKyle]

Apologies for the long quiet spell.
I sit exams every 6 months or so and I tend to give up go in the lead up as I find it quite distracting.
My exam was delayed a little and changed in format but I'm all done now and back playing.

Sorry, still thinking, game is really hard right now.

In the meantime, I just came across this video on Youtube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJzZBacUl7c

I'm pretty sure that the video is mistitled - seems like it should be Ryan Li, not Eric Lui. With the blindfold, I have no idea whether it's actually Bao Yun or not. Still, I'm very curious to ask Ryan Li about the experience, but the best way I know to get hold of him is by Youtube comment

This is seriously impressive.
I'm reasonably proud of what we've managed in this game, but I think the correspondence element actually helped. Having some time to reflect on the moves seemed to help to solidify them. Doing it in a public event is something else.

[MikeKyle]

I recently remembered that this happened.
I think I'm going to attempt to recall the game one more time blind and then review it to see how sensible it really was.