Alejo's Tenuki

On the last post I introduced the EuroGoTV to you. Today I decided to watch a few more of the videos this user has uploaded and discovered this wonderful workshop which took place at the European Go Congress 2007, with the collaboration of Yoon Young-sun (5p). It was a great surprise to discover these series of videos with a very didactic content and focused for players in the single-digit kyu range.

In fact, there is a Double-Digit Kyu Workshop available too at his site but I still haven't seen it yet. I'll add it here, but I can't comment on them (though it will problbaly be of the same quality). I hope you enjoy both of them.

EuroGoTV is a website which periodically publishes new videos of some European Go World. There you can see Guo Juan (5p) commenting on some games played recently, you can also see how Alexander Dinerchtein commenting daily on the last European Go Congress, the interviews to the programmers of the last computer olympiad... down to double digit kyus workshop.

This videos are hosted on youtube, so their load should be quite fast indeed, not as the website itself, which is currently being developed but it is worth to keep it bookmarked.

This is an extract from their own site:

As some of you already know, I recently implemented a new forum for this site. The main purpose of this forum is to ease the contact between the students and me, or between them. Each student has an independent and hidden section in the forum, which isn't available to general users or guests.

I'm working on modifying some features and adding new ones, like the possibility to insert SGF diagrams and such. Currenly it has only two extra features: " show new replies to your posts" and "the calendar"; but I'm sure that the list will increase enormously once I'm used to the system. By the way, it is based on the SMF system, which is far more secure than phpbb.

This is a situation from a game I played last week.

As you can see, black has a huge territory on the bottom of the board. The two stones at C4 have been sacrificed during the game... or not?

Is there anyway you could profit from their presence?

Yes, it is possible to invade the bottom of the board by taking these cutting stones into account. If we played as shown on the next picture (what happened on the game) it seems possible to invade there. As you can see, black had to avoid that this cutting stones successed on their purpose and I took the chance here to invade.

Probably some better players can tell us that the invasion was killable anyway by some hard-reading exercise, but this was made on byoyomi, with around 30 seconds per move on a game between players at 9-10k level, so we didn't have much time to think. As the illustrator of "Empty Triangle" says: crap time runs out time runs out must move fast must think now no time.