Recent 9x9 game
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Recent 9x9 game
White just played the marked move, taking the last dame. No prisoners were made during the game. Assuming 0.5 komi for white, what is the result of the game?
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Re: Recent 9x9 game
HermanHiddema wrote:
White just played the marked move, taking the last dame. No prisoners were made during the game. Assuming 0.5 komi for white, what is the result of the game?
Probably stupid question, but where is my reading wrong?
Please educate
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Re: Recent 9x9 game
p2501 wrote:HermanHiddema wrote:
White just played the marked move, taking the last dame. No prisoners were made during the game. Assuming 0.5 komi for white, what is the result of the game?
Probably stupid question, but where is my reading wrong?
Please educate
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Re: Recent 9x9 game
HermanHiddema wrote:daal wrote:Is this a trick question?
oops. blitz posting. bad habit.
Patience, grasshopper.
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Re: Recent 9x9 game
HermanHiddema wrote:
A data point for you: it took me a only few seconds to find the tesuji, but the way you posted it was still a big hint that there was a tesuji to be found. Anyway, I'm still quite sure I would have found it in a game.
(to make it more subtle, you could have posted, say, 3 9x9 endgames for counting, only one of them having a tesuji
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Re: Recent 9x9 game
The original post asks for the "result" of the game. My first thought was that the game play was finished and only counting the score remained because if moves can still be played the game isn't over and there is no "result". Then I realized that Herman couldn't have meant that it was a half-point win for White and I found the tesuji.
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Re: Recent 9x9 game
Well, I guess there isn't really a good way to post this kind of thing without immediately setting off everyone's alarm bells. 
Perhaps, as daniel_the_smith suggested, posting it as part of some sort of series would allow it to slip under people's radars.
In the game, my opponent didn't spot it, and passed. Although I don't know how strong he is exactly, it cannot be too weak, given the fact that he can get this result against a 4d.
Perhaps, as daniel_the_smith suggested, posting it as part of some sort of series would allow it to slip under people's radars.
In the game, my opponent didn't spot it, and passed. Although I don't know how strong he is exactly, it cannot be too weak, given the fact that he can get this result against a 4d.
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Re: Recent 9x9 game
If black counts and realizes he will lose by half a point if he defends, I would argue that it makes more sense for black to pass and hope white doesn't realize black's weakness than to defend and lose for sure.
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Re: Recent 9x9 game
Dusk Eagle wrote:If black counts and realizes he will lose by half a point if he defends, I would argue that it makes more sense for black to pass and hope white doesn't realize black's weakness than to defend and lose for sure.
Not sure I agree with this. There is something nice about finishing a close game. Although the result is technically the same, I think there's a quality difference between a game I lost by one point, and a game I had to resign because I was hoping my opponent would make a mistake.