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Posted: Sat Nov 01, 2014 7:46 pm
by EdLee
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[go]$$Wm19
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Re: #244 Bill vs Ed

Posted: Sun Nov 02, 2014 5:34 am
by Aidoneus
Very hard freeze, down to 22 F last night, sure glad to have power again. The polar vortex really arrived early this year. (A year almost without a summer here in the Great Lakes region. Not that I'm complaining, really. We went without AC and only occasionally needed to run fans.)

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[go]$$Bcm20
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I guess that I have to capture the cutting stone. Like I feared, though, White will get out and eat along the right. I gave up playing the hane from two fourth-line stones, instead extending with a third fourth-line stone, against MFoG because the cut seemed to always result in more trouble than it was worth.

Re: #244 Bill vs Ed

Posted: Sun Nov 02, 2014 7:05 am
by Bill Spight


Edit: Unhidden.

Re: #244 Bill vs Ed

Posted: Sun Nov 02, 2014 7:45 am
by Aidoneus
I've had to lock up my pick axe to keep from mining these hidden comments! :D

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Posted: Sun Nov 02, 2014 12:44 pm
by EdLee
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[go]$$Wm21
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Posted: Sun Nov 02, 2014 12:59 pm
by EdLee
For beginners. Instead of :b20: , the normal sequence:
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[go]$$B
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$$ | . . X X . O . . . , . . . . W X X O . |
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W must add a move like :w4: or B can kill the corner.
Then, B can add :black: (a) in gote to capture :wc: and become very thick.
Or, if B feels he's strong enough locally and globally,
he can omit :black: (a) and tenuki,
but this gives W a chance to do something with :wc: .
For beginners.
:b20: seems to be a common mistake at these levels.
Maybe B was worried about :w2: --
but after :b3: atari, B has miai of (a) and (b),
so it's no problem for B --
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[go]$$B
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$$ | . . O . X O . . . X . . X X X O O b . |
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On :w19: I was going to offer the standard trigger, :b20: - :w21: .
but I'm still very unclear about B's level.
There was a small chance he wouldn't play it.
I'm still playing some probes to see how B replies.
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[go]$$Wm19
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Posted: Sun Nov 02, 2014 1:14 pm
by EdLee
Variation:
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[go]$$W
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After :b2: , options for :w3: :
  • Connect solidly at (a);
  • Connect with the tiger's mouth (b), but this allows :b4: atari (c);
  • Extend to (c), but this may give up the corner.
If :w3: , then :w5: atari, this is a simple way to give up the corner.
I'm not sure of this result.
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[go]$$W
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If :w5: connects, this leads to a local fight:
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[go]$$W
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Continuation. The corner probably still dies. :bt: is damaged.
I'm not sure of this result.
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[go]$$Wm11
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Re: #244 Bill vs Ed

Posted: Sun Nov 02, 2014 1:32 pm
by Aidoneus
Fooling around with my new iPad mini 2. Gonna decide my first book for it, so I may not respond again for awhile. ;-)

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[go]$$Bcm22
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I guess this makes local shape? We'll, or rather I, will see after the game.

Posted: Sun Nov 02, 2014 1:35 pm
by EdLee
Congrats on your new iPad mini 2. Is it your first ever iPad ?

Your last two move numbers were off by 2:
:b18: should've been :b20:
:b20: should've been :b22: . :)

Posted: Sun Nov 02, 2014 2:08 pm
by EdLee
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[go]$$Wm23
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Re:

Posted: Sun Nov 02, 2014 2:27 pm
by Aidoneus
EdLee wrote:Congrats on your new iPad mini 2. Is it your first ever iPad ?

Your last two move numbers were off by 2:
:b18: should've been :b20:
:b20: should've been :b22: . :)


First iPad (or iPod or iPhone, for that matter). Though my first Mac was a 512k machine back in 1986. And I still have an old pre-Intel Mac running Panther.

Sorry about messing up the move numbers! :oops:

Re: #244 Bill vs Ed

Posted: Sun Nov 02, 2014 2:33 pm
by Aidoneus
I must have lost the thread of this game, as it feels like it's about to unravel.

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[go]$$Bcm24
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Probably not right, but I think White needs to extend and then I can play a long knights move on top to get a little territory (maybe).

Posted: Sun Nov 02, 2014 2:59 pm
by EdLee
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[go]$$Wm25
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Posted: Sun Nov 02, 2014 3:01 pm
by EdLee
You can still go back to your previous posts and fix the move numbers: click the "edit" button. :)

22°F is crazy! :)

Re:

Posted: Sun Nov 02, 2014 3:18 pm
by Aidoneus
EdLee wrote:You can still go back to your previous posts and fix the move numbers: click the "edit" button. :)

22°F is crazy! :)


OK, I will, thanks. And I'm just grateful that wasn't the low Friday night, which was about 32 F.

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[go]$$Bcm26
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Per my plan, good or bad.