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I've had a change of heart about playing this endgame - I see no point in dragging this game out for a few more days. I resign - I can clearly no longer make any significant dent in your lead of about 7/8 points. Thankyou very much for the game

I'm sure we both made a lot of mistakes in this game - but it was an awful lot of fun. (I like fighting, although I like it more when it goes better for me ) I should never have let you get that ko in the lower right - that ultimately cost me the game, I think - one major reading fail and I could never come back.

Thanks again for the game. Now I am looking forward to reading the mountain of comments made by oberservers - thanks all in advance for all the good advice I'm sure I'm going to read (I'm particularly intrigued by all these comments towards the game when I thought the result was basically never in doubt - I am prepared to do a headdesk if it turns out I've missed some obvious way to make back a lot of points...)

Thanks for the game, guys.

Good Game.

Don't worry, robinz, some of those comments were stronger players counting the board. (I did it for practice, for instance).

Good work, both of you.

Great game buddy & thank you

robinz- you are a amazing fighter! i can feel your spirit in this game and it was relentless, i'd like to play again sometime after my schedule gets a little more sane


im going to read the entire thread and study my mistakes, i already know my worst mistake was the big ugly group on the right side of the board, and not looking at every possible move

well its time to study


c ya around

Congratulations to both of you. This has been a great game to watch and discuss - from start to finish!

Well, I'm glad we gave you strong players something interesting to rip apart Seriously, having just glanced through the comments, thanks to all, ez4u and topazg in particular, for some great analysis - not all of which I was able to take in at first glance. But I understood enough to be kicking myself at missing my chance in that final fight in the lower-left

I also find it interesting that, through much of the middlegame, we seem to have both thought we were behind It seems the concensus was that I was ahead at that point, so I clearly need to work on my counting (based on the count I gave in response to Mnemonic at about this point, after correcting myself, it seems the game was actually pretty level - which of course makes my talk of resignation ridiculous, but also doesn't suggest that 1986 needed to do anything desparate either).

And finally, to Ed and Kirby: if I'd known you were keen for the game to end in an actual score then I wouldn't have resigned. To be honest I should really have resigned right after the last ko fight ended when I indicated that I felt I ought to, but we'll see if my endgame play from then on was worthy of any "nice notes" from Ed (although I doubt it ). I guess I should have tried the 3-3 in the upper left, but it honestly didn't even occur to me, white's corner looked just so solid - in a real life game I might try something like that when behind just to see what happens, but it seems kind of disrespectful in a Malkovich game.

Anyway - I'm glad we managed to entertain the observers. 1986: I'd be more than happy to play another Malkovich against you, although I think I need a bit of a breather first. And I can't promise the next game will be as entertaining as this one...

robinz,

robinz wrote:if I'd known you were keen for the game to end in an actual score

No, no, that was for your benefit, not for us. And 3-3 was also for you guys -- with no time limit, at least you had a chance to do a perfect life-and-death,
for both B and W; even if B had no chance to live, at least W had to have played every move correctly -- so it was for you.

one of the most entertaining malkovitch i ve seen.
Probably because we are close in level and i really felt crushed by the gigantic mess you mutually put yourself into; it would have given me nightmares to play this game with all the dan level hidden comments between each moves

and also, a lot of back and forth and suspens