Real game tsumego


The day after Sabadell's Tournament I had to play the 2nd game in the Rioplatense Tournament. It was a game against a 13k KGS with 5 stones of handicap. The time settings were 10 minutes plus 15 minutes for 25 stones of Canadian byo-yomi. As you can see, the time settings don't allow much time to think in tsumegos or brilliant strategies, so I couldn't solve this tsumego correctly on the actual game but I managed to win anyway.

As you can see, black is not exactly on a bright position. This situation came after black not finishing the monkey jump sequence which started at A17 and ignoring too the settling move at A15. Black started realising he had to answer my moves after white 199... but it was too late... or not.

As black, is there any way to save the stones which form an empty triangle?

This entry was posted by Alejo on Thursday, September 13. 2007 at 03:48. and is filed under In the Game. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own blog.

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    Best sequence I could come to was ko for life: w-d17, b-c16, w-d18, b-f16, w-g14, b-e17, w-f15-ko, or giving up 3 stones...
    #1 Slartibartfast on 2007-09-13 06:54 (Reply)
    Yep!! That's it!!! You got the right answer. It would have been a big ko, but (after checking the game) black has many dead groups which could rise from the grave by ko threats... so I guess black would win it.

    It's sad that I failed to see that sequence on the game... but playing in byo-yomi is not my strongest weapon...
    #1.1 Alejo on 2007-09-13 11:29 (Reply)

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