Game Of The Century

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See the wikipedia page: [ext] game of the century. SL also mentions the game at the Shusai page

Go Seigen, in his recent book, Now I Would Play This Way, makes no reference to the game being known as such, but it is referred to in Pieter Mioch's interview with him: [ext] http://gobase.org/studying/articles/mioch/goseigen/interview-2.html.

Analysis

The game plays out as shown below. Here we will examine and discuss each set of moves forming a unique Go problem to work out the process of the game.

Opening

[Diagram]

First 10 moves

Go Seigen played his third move (Black 5) on the Tengen in this game. Already in the top-right we can see some aggression. (Joseki?)

Bob McGuigan: W6 is not "aggression", it's a probe and at the same time is a joseki move. Go Seigen called W6 and W8 "splendid moves". By the way, W10 in the diagram is in the wrong place. White's tenth move in the actual game was at a. However, Go Seigen said that it might have been better to finish the joseki in the upper right corner.


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