It's always by one

Friday, December 14. 2007


On Monday evening I happened to watch a couple of nice capture races which ended up with the same result, the loser was one liberty short. We all have suffered this sensation where you start reading a capture race and realise that you are one liberty short but play it just in case your opponent doesn't play properly. Or, if you are unable to read it till the end, play the capture race until you can predict the result with some confidence.


Though I never have experienced it to this extent, I guess it must be somewhat depressing to lose a capturing race worth over 40 points with 100 observers. Here you have two games where, all of a sudden, nice huge capturing races appear.

Whenever you see the remote chance that a capturing race appears, read it, if you realise it too late, you may be one liberty short.


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USA final game for the ING cup

Friday, December 7. 2007

As usual on the games between high dans, there weren't too big differences on the scores during the whole game and, obviously, it wasn't different at the end of the game. In fact, the game was so closed that AFTER the game there was the biggest chat I've ever seen in KGS.

Both players appeared to have 184 points with a komi of 7 points. This caused a big chaos among the observers who weren't aware of the ING rules, with some moderations trying to moderate the discussion. It was the first time I saw such a huge chat purely related with the game. According to the ING rules, the komi was set to 8 points, thus giving the victory to white, Mingjiu Jang (7p) by one point... In the end, Mingjiu Jang will represent the USA in the ING championship which will take place early next year.
Just in case you want to see the game, it's loaded in Eidogo. A nice one, with many joseki variations I hadn't seen before and a nice ko involving a small group at the upper right corner. In order to save some downloading space I've deleted lots of the comments made after the game.


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