topazg wrote:Get them to rematch and put five thousand Euros / Pounds / Dollars on it and see if the result is the same.
I just checked the EGF winning statistics and for a 3d vs a 7d there were 376 games of which the 3d won 4, i.e. 1% of them. I'd have liked a five thousand pound bet with those odds.
topazg wrote:At the very least, the "I'm not in the mood but I'll play anyway" and "I don't really care about this game today" factors will mostly disappear.
This was a 3 days/move game and breakfast usually had plenty of time, I think there was only one point he went less than a day and usually 5+, whereas I got short of time quite often as I kept postponing a difficult move (it even got down to about 2 minutes to timeout and a friend sent me a reminder text message but everything was under control with a time tesuji).
I wonder what would happen if I played Ilya Shikshin on OGS. He is a little stronger than breakfast, but has a very different style of aggressive fighting. One argument is that in a peaceful game a much stronger player can simply win by 5 points and the weaker player never has a chance, whereas a fighting game is more chaotic so there is a chance for the weaker player to stage an upset. However, this theory has the problem I've just provided a counterexample. Another argument is that Ilya's style of lots of fighting really sorts the strong players from the weak and I would get massacred. How much help would the extra time be to me in dealing with all his aggression and sharp tesujis? Against breakfast he never really pulled me out of my comfort zone: I was playing the sort of game I am happy with. Ilya would likely create the sort of chaotic game of many weak groups that he revels in, and that I find more difficult. So I would expect to have less chance of beating him, but who knows, unless he registers on OGS...
. He's now #4 and I'm #1. #2 is a Russian 2 dan (but last tournament in 2010 so maybe he is stronger now) so it seems the extra time benefits some others too. #3 is a 6 dan from Singapore. Maybe I should start giving lessons...
For those of you who are not degenerate gamblers, this means that those betting on Uberdude only need to bet $1 to win $99. Those betting on Breakfast would need to bet $99 to win $1. If Uberdude bet 50.51 pounds on himself at those odds and won, he would gain 5,000 pounds. If I bet 5,000 pounds on Breakfast at those odds and won, I would gain a paltry 50.51 pounds. Yikes. At those odds, my money is on Uberdude as well. Of course, the bookie would probably take a 10% cut. Gambling is so evil.
and leave that ko of a further 4 points behind. Seeing as I played this during the game with the r18 cut still undefended I should leave this sequence until I can afford to take gote. But what a big gote it is!
but 
is a nice tesuji to get it back to a ko. Can anyone find anything better for either player?