ShinFuDiagPg231

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Go's remarks on this game should have the correct moves numbers as shown here:

"..This game was suspended after Kitani's move White 30. The continuation was set for a month later and we set off for a holiday. After the trip to Shinshu I returned after four or five days. Kitani stayed there and returned to Tokyo about a week later. The game then continued and the first move of the continuation was Black 31! If I had not gone to Shinshu I think I would probably have chosen to invade at k4 (a in the diagram)."

Go won the game and Kitani said afterwards White 2 (?) was a/the losing move: it let Black approach at 33, just where White would want to play in this game.

DaveSigaty: Personally I thought that this criticism of White 2 seemed a bit severe. On the other hand, what do I know? So I ran a search on GoGoDCD and sure enough... Of the 178 games in the collection where Black starts on SanSan, this is the only game where White 2 is on mokuhazushi facing Black 1. I guess when Kitani spoke - the other pros listened :-)