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The longest professional game
Posted: Wed Aug 25, 2021 9:57 am
by macelee
Happened earlier this week. 431 moves including 6 dame moves, beating the previous record by a big margin. The players could have made it 6 moves longer as both sides had one more ko threat (B13 and E18) left unused.
Re: The longest professional game
Posted: Tue Sep 07, 2021 11:02 pm
by pajaro
I think I saw some video of this, when they were counting.
The board was full, of course, and each player had a bunch of stones that they had to count "the old way". In amateur games, you exchange captured stones when you run out stones in your bowl, but I wondered how they handled it in pro games. I guess that someone adds stones to the bowls without the players having to ask or worry about this.
Re: The longest professional game
Posted: Fri Sep 17, 2021 9:48 pm
by Joaz Banbeck
pajaro wrote:...each player had a bunch of stones that they had to count "the old way". In amateur games, you exchange captured stones when you run out stones in your bowl, but I wondered how they handled it in pro games. I guess that someone adds stones to the bowls without the players having to ask or worry about this.
They probably leave the prisoners un-exchanged so that they can be used to confirm that the kifu is correct.
Ko fights are notorious for generating errors by even the most dedicated game recorder.