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Wasting Time In A Lost Game
   

I had never seen this until it happened to me tho other night. I suppose it may be a fair ploy in some cases, but I found it quite unnecessary and offensive.

I was playing white in a 4-stone handicap game, and the game was finished. A preliminary count showed that I was ~20 points ahead. We played with a clock, and I had around 2 minutes left, wheras my opponent had around 5 minutes left. The dame were filled and the status of all the groups were clear. (BTW, this was not a blitz.)

He proceeded to continue to play moves inside my territory, leaving me to capture his stones when required or passing, seemingly with the hope that my time would run out before he had reduced me to living groups with just 2 eyes each.

As it happened, he ran out of moves before I ran out of time, and I won by what turned out to be 17 points. But I don't think I will want to play him again anytime soon.

--MortenPahle

Note to programmers of computer Go players: A good number of computer Go programs play this way, and it's very irritating when the human player has already won the game.

--unkx80



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