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ChoiceGoGame1
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ChessWhiz takes Black and 12 stones, but lavalyn gets Choice Go handicap - Black must offer two alternative moves every move, and White picks one for Black to play. JoeSeki Could you do me a favor? When White plays, could you put some kind of mark on the black choices previously offered. sometimes you guys move so fast I miss the choices black offered. Perhaps leaving letters behind for the alternative. i.e. Black offers 2 x's, White chooses one of them and replaces the other x with a,b,c,d,e in it's place, for each board that gets made. So the numbered board would have a (1 and a), (3 and b), (5 and c), (7 and d), and (9 and e). Make sense? ChessWhiz: I thought about that, but here's the problem. What if I offer two moves, and lavalyn has me play one and takes the other? A point can't be marked with both a white stone and an letter.[1] JoeSeki: Good point! But that just means we have a need for a new kind of stone! Can the Go diagrams read double characters to create a new lettered stone? I don't know, nor do I know where to ask this question and get a better answer. ChessWhiz: Hmm, a lettered stone... sounds like a job for Arno or Morten. :-) I hope lavalyn and I can remember how the game went so we can go through it and add the letters from the beginning. lavalyn - uh, NO. I have difficulty enough remembering what where your little x's are after I remove them, thank you. ChessWhiz: Hey, I just had a brilliant flash of insight. SL saves every version of this page -- all we have to do is look at each version to see how the game went. Click the pagename link at the top to view previous versions. :-D
Arno: alternatively use boards with coordinates (add a 'c' after $$B or $$W) and name the point by its coordinates.
lavalyn: W13 - Would have preferred something more solid, but the lone black escaping would devastate my position. ChessWhiz: B14 - Take your pick, offense or defense? lavalyn: W15 - I'll make you take the thank you move. Arigato! ChessWhiz: B16 - This is weird. *grin* lavalyn: W17 - The real pain in this handicap (for Black) is that both moves have to be approximately equal value - or else White will clearly prefer one over the other. Oh well, I'm happy to get a nearly living group against 12 stones. ChessWhiz: B18 - I'd better play honte here! Not that I'm going to... :-P lavalyn: W19 - Honte? Good luck! Complications galore, since I'll win most of them! ChessWhiz: B20 - Your choice: boshi or cut?
lavalyn: W21 - Make a fist before striking! ChessWhiz: B26 - This is pathetic. lavalyn: W27 - You're right. ChessWhiz: B28 - What'dya say we just stop? This isn't turning out to be as fun as I imagined it to be. How about a game in which we both have Choice Go handicap? Or how about a real game of go? Game paused and discussed at Choice Go Game 1 Discussion lavalyn: W29 - Game RESUMED. ChessWhiz: B30 - I'd better play more defensively than I have been.
lavalyn: W37 - Your opponent's good move is your good move! JoeSeki A hint for white here. Start lots of fights which separate black into a bunch of groups. Choice go forces black to fight very poorly. Contact plays are a good idea to exploit the weakness of the choice go game black must play. Once you realize black can win no ko fights -- no matter what the size, you'll realize just how big an advantage you really have here. ChessWhiz: B38 - Hey, no hints! I don't want any fights! :-P lavalyn: W39 - A nice luxury. Such a high position will only make attacking it easier. In the meantime, time to build some sabaki to catch up on influence. ChessWhiz: B40 - Your attachments are driving me crazy.
lavalyn: W41 - Hane, Hane back! ChessWhiz: B42 - Ok, here's your chance. Do you want to fight? lavalyn: W43 - Not really. You can play as defensively as you want towards your own strength. ChessWhiz: B44 - Defense is fine with me, given the circumstances. lavalyn: W45 - If that's the way you like it... ChessWhiz: B46 - Ugh, this is tough. lavalyn: W47 - You got 12 stones for this handicap!! Don't complain! ChessWhiz: B48 - After all, 12 isn't so much when it disappears like ice in the desert. :-) lavalyn: W49 - The clamp is harmless against me in this position. :) ChessWhiz: B50 - How harmless? I'm ready to find out.
lavalyn: W51 - Don't you think your moves are rather small right now? ChessWhiz: B52 - Yes, they are small, but they have a purpose! lavalyn: W53 - If you say so - player who cannot win a ko unless I let them... ChessWhiz: B54 - Hey, don't rub it in! I've made mistakes before. lavalyn: W55 - Make sure i can get into the center with this group!
ChessWhiz: B56 - I like playing a quiet game. Keep it up, lavalyn! *grin* lavalyn: W57 - Let's mix things up a little bit. ChessWhiz: B58 - Noooo......... No fights! No fights! lavalyn: W59 - Why not? I like fights! ChessWhiz: B60 - Keep Out. Keepout. Keypout. Key Pout of my territory! ;-)
lavalyn: W61 - Like you're really going to get that atari! I expected you to atari from both sides though. ChessWhiz: B62 - I have to play very solidly here. lavalyn: W63 - Unlike me - who doesn't. ChessWhiz: B64 - So far, I feel I've done OK in preserving some of my 12-stone lead... lavalyn: W65 - Now you feel how powerful this handicap can really be! Can't make the first desired move. Difficulty in fighting. Always forced to make the worse of two choices. Ow. ChessWhiz: B66 - Yeah, ouch. But I don't always have to make the worse move... sometimes you're nice to me. :-) lavalyn: W67 - Naturally, I'll keep things complicated. ChessWhiz: B68 - Ok, I've changed my mind... I'll play even more defensively. lavalyn: W69 - Muhaha!!!!!! ChessWhiz: B70 - I need to seal up these holes as soon as possible.
lavalyn: W71 - So complicated I don't know what I'm doing! ChessWhiz: B72 - I do... you're playing ChoiceGo. ;-P lavalyn: W73 - No, I'm typing at a keyboard. ChessWhiz: B74 - Must... stay... connected..... lavalyn: W75 - As you wish. Now, let's screw up ANOTHER area! ChessWhiz: B76 - These wild attachments are crazy. lavalyn: W77 - Well, of course they are. ChessWhiz: B78 - I must retain at least some profit here. lavalyn: W79 - Good luck with that! ChessWhiz: B80 - Thanks, I'll need it.
lavalyn: W81 - Taking your corner away. Gimme! ChessWhiz: B82 - Making a valiant effort to fight back. lavalyn: W83 - Your bamboo joint don't look like fighting back to me! dnerra: Hey, a stone at a has disappeared! lavalyn: You're right! How did that happen? Please remake move.
ChessWhiz: B84 - Whoa! I'm suprised nobody noticed. Thanks, dnerra! Even with that new stone, however, my move is the same.
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