It's always by one
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.
On the first one, you'll see a nice race into the middle right from the very beginning, giving as a result 3 long dragons without much eyespace. But around move 130 there is a crosscut and 2 groups cut each other. Please, make your bets before moving on from move 135.
