TIG 2008: Defeated by a 1k (what else did you expect?)

Written by alejo on March 31st, 2008

On monday I played the second game of the TIG 2008 tournament, against a 1k, the highest rank in my group; therefore this is the toughest opponent I’m to face during this tournament.

Before the game, my opponent told me he had seen this blog. Once warned, I decided not to make the Kobayashi openning, a few seconds before skamus announced that I was playing as white according to the tournament directors. In the real game, black tried to make a sort of Kobayashi openning, which I answered with a short pincer: complicating the game only makes it worse for the weakest player.

We both made some good moves and I made some good blunders all over the board, but managed to get a big moyo on the left side. During the middle game you’ll see one of my groups struggling to survive and in the end, a nice ko upper left (though I knew the sequence to survive, I didn’t expect him to go for the ko).

All in all, I lost by “only” 13.5 points.

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2 Comments to “TIG 2008: Defeated by a 1k (what else did you expect?)”

Posted by Diego Guerrero, March 31st, 2008 at 9:14 pm

Hi Alejandro

I forgot to tell you, at move 118 there is a pretty nice tsumego on the right . What move do you think would kill W?

Posted by Alejo, March 31st, 2008 at 9:20 pm

Let me guess… T9 seems to be the vital point. In fact, I ended up sacrificing a few stones in order to be able to play T9.

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