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Teaching Game 67 Moves 41 Thru 50
Keywords: Ongoing game
This is a Teaching Game so please add generous comments. Anyone can a question or kibitz. It makes for a good learning experience (and nice reading material for others). Hopefully we see some dan level player with their kibitzes here as well
JoeSeki White 50: Living first.
AvatarDJFlux Black 49: Alea jacta est! (Julius Caesar, crossing the Rubicone) JoeSeki White 48: I didn't think you'd play b (White 48) but I would have liked it if you did. Smart move to just play back, however I'm wonder if that is the only way to play here. If you are willing to admit White is alive here, then Black 45 leaves cuts behind to exploit later, or now. So you might have to patch them now or have holes to worry about later. Perhaps a pull back allows White to live and you get sente immediately? Right now I think sente is still in doubt. You get to take a big move but I set up a ladder breaker to make the cross cut work and break out into your moyo. Thus either the ladder breaker or the cross-cut destroys your moyo. Pulling straight back would guard against such manuevers.
I think you end with sente this way. AvatarDJFlux B47: Yes, that's what I expected. I would have the option of intercepting at b (White 48 now), but this, while indeed keeping your group under pressure, would send it running into my moyo, and this is a mistake I've made one time too many... JoeSeki White 46: I think this is the best way to live here.
AvatarDJFlux Black 45: I'm back! Thanks for your patience! JoeSeki Welcome back! I'll need some time to think about this one. I really want to end with sente here. :)
AvatarDJFlux: I've had a terribly heavy working week. I'm tired. Now my summer holidays have begun, and I'm getting ready to go hiking in the Alps, where there are no computers. JoeSeki White 44: I couldn't find anything cute or tricky. This seems simple and safe.
DJ: I think the problem started when you answered at R7 my knight's move at P11. The keima is a standard way to attack a two-space extension on the third line when it is between two "strong" black positions at one-point distance: but you extended after the keima, so it was like you played tenuki as an aswer to my attack! Q9 then becomes sort of severe...
JoeSeki: Well now this is a difficult spot I find myself in. I want to stand up, but I can't. If I do stand up then you have a clean capture of my two white stones, and I don't cleanly capture your thee stones. Connecting seems bad, and trying to connect to the corner seems bad also. How did this happen? I thought the black position was too far apart to connect but yet you have demonstrated a very nice way to accomplish the connection after all. I really need to think about this one. The lean was an excellent move in my opinion! Bravo! DJ Black 43: Indeed.... :-)) JoeSeki White 42: Not much thought needed here :)
DJ Black 41: I want to keep you busy by attacking. I'm aware that such attack is not dangerous as my three stones are weak, but I hope to bring them in the open with your help. This is a copy of the living page "Teaching Game 67 Moves 41 Thru 50" at Sensei's Library. ![]() |