Life In 19x19

I just set up a new temporary room, L19 beginners tourney

ah, and got in one match!

kukula wrote:I just set up a new temporary room, L19 beginners tourney

ah, and got in one match!

Come over to the godiscussions.com room and play there. A lot of us are there to help.

If I issue a challenge, is there anyway to specify my opponent, or can anybody take up the challenge?

kukula wrote:If I issue a challenge, is there anyway to specify my opponent, or can anybody take up the challenge?

anyone can take it up, but you don't have to accept from anybody. if more than one person tries to join your game, you can choose from the drop down list which player to accept

you can also write the player's name you want to join your game in the space at the top of the setup box as a suggestion for others to see

xed_over wrote: you don't have to accept from anybody.

ah, thanks, I will be careful at the beginning of a match to look at the details in the setup box.

Not sure I understood the format for recording matches, but here is a report.

kukula vs. TominNJ

Game1: kukula(black) won by 22.5 points (the score computed was 17.5 but I had a komi of .5 instead of 5.5 so 22.5 is correct, right?)

Game2: kukula(white) won by TominNJ resigning. Maybe that 5.5 komi would have made up for the difference in territory, I don't know! You can look and see!

kukula wrote:Not sure I understood the format for recording matches, but here is a report.

kukula vs. TominNJ

Game1: kukula(black) won by 22.5 points (the score computed was 17.5 but I had a komi of .5 instead of 5.5 so 22.5 is correct, right?)

Game2: kukula(white) won by TominNJ resigning. Maybe that 5.5 komi would have made up for the difference in territory, I don't know! You can look and see!

For tie breaking purposes it would be good to have both players' full score. For simplicities sake write the score something like.

kukula 2-0 TominNJ
Game 1: Kukula(W) 37.5-15.0 TominNJ
Game2: TominNJ (Res)21.5-32.0 kukula

kukula (22k, White) vs TominNJ (25k, Black)
Result: 37.5 - 15.0, White wins by 22.5 points

Review:



TominNJ (25k, White) vs kukula (22k, Black)
Result: Black wins by resignation
Score before resignation: 21.5 - 32.0, Black wins by 10.5 points

Review:

Thanks Topaz. I've fixed my post.

Wow, Topaz - just that review technology is very cool! But even better, your comments are very helpful. What a wonderful way to help us beginners along! Many thanks!

SinK 0-2 noodley

Game 1: noodley(w)23.5-16.0 S1NK
Game 2: S1NK 13.5-19.0 noodley

noodley (15k, White) vs S1NK (21k, Black)
Result: 23.5 - 16.0, White wins by 7.5 points

Review:



S1NK (21k, White) vs noodley (15k, Black)
Result: 13.5 - 19.0, Black wins by 5.5 points

Review:

I had also promised to give reviews and/or teaching games, but I didn't realize it was going to be starting so soon. I will be gone until the middle of next week, but after that I will be available.

Also, have you considered tie-break matches to break ties? Given that it's not a meatspace tournament with time/space constraints, it's not too hard to have an additional sudden-death match to break ties.

SinK 2-0 kukula

Game 1: S1NK(w)28.5-26.0 kukula
Game 2: kukula 15.5-49.0 S1NK

The first game was good by both sides. There were a few defensive moves that weren't strictly necessary, but otherwise, both players played well.



On the second game, if white played 28 one space to the right, it adds to his liberties while giving black less holes to push through. Suddenly, it's black who can't escape and dies. S1nk, 43 was a good move. As you correctly saw, if white got to play there, that corner group would survive, and there's no reason to be that generous. =D Again, both players played well, but the mistake at 28 decided the game.

I don't have sgf-editing capacity where I am, but I did want to add these few brief comments. If you want to find your own games, just go to http://www.gokgs.com/archives.jsp and search your own username.