Wu Ren Go 3

Captures  

Komi 6.5, Japanese rules

Moves 91 to 100  

• bacteria: Take the corner.
• jvloenen: Get the corner. We continue here.
• Dieter: block and connect.
• jvloenen: We resign. Thank you for playing.

Moves 81 to 90  

• Uberdude: Alright then, have this in sente...
• jvloenen: Thank you. Finally we return to the other corner.
• bacteria: Cut here.
• jvloenen: Only move (of the only two moves suggested).
• bacteria: Double sente, so get it quickly.
• jvloenen: We had only one suggestion in four weeks of thinking. So finally here it is.
• bacteria: Sente is better than gote
• jvloenen: Ok, we agree.
• bacteria: Only follow-up.
• tapir: Defend.
• bacteria: How do I create another goban for moves 91-100?

Moves 71 to 80  

• Uberdude: Poke
• jvloenen: Protect our precious territory
• Uberdude: And again please
• jvloenen: Ok, protect again
• Uberdude: Sorry for the delay
• jvloenen: We're tired of answering your moves
• bacteria: Hello. Protect our precious territory
• jvloenen: Welcome to the game bacteria!
• Uberdude: Only move
• jvloenen: It is time to return to this corner.

Moves 61 to 70  

• Uberdude: Extend
• Tapir: One of us is going to die here.
• Uberdude: Cut
• Tapir: Make feel important.
• Uberdude: Atari the cutting stone!
• Tapir: Extend the cutting stone.
• Uberdude: Ignore the cutting stone
• Tapir: Please go ahead and take some territory
• Uberdude: Thank you, and Merry Christmas
• jvloenen: A happy new year to everyone!

First pic for 2011 http://imgur.com/qtdBS

Moves 51 to 60  

• Uberdude: Live in the corner
• Tapir: Triple purpose
• Uberdude: Let's destroy each other's potential
• Tapir: Make some new potential instead
• Uberdude: This looks exciting.
• jvloenen: Start looking for new possibilities.
• Uberdude: Extend to not aid your sabaki
• jvloenen: Getting stronger in the center
• Uberdude: Crab pincer!
• jvloenen: Poke the crab.

Uberdude: I will be on holiday 2nd - 11th October.

60 moves http://imgur.com/sgkn7.jpg

Moves 41 to 50  

• Uberdude: Obvious hane
• jvloenen: A powerful double hane.
• Uberdude: We don't want a ponnuki on the top side.
• jvloenen: We don't mind getting a ponnuki on this side.
• Uberdude: We need conditional moves like on OGS.
• jvloenen: Normal local response.

Uberdude: I (and some other players too perhaps) am going to the EGC for 2 weeks tomorrow so may not be around to play. If I don't appear someone else feel free to take over as captain.

Abydos1: Should we put the game on hold for now then? How many people are actually going? jvloenen said he won't be here for a couple weeks either.

Uberdude: I have returned.

• Uberdude: Connect.
• Abydos1: Connect.
• Uberdude: Extend to create aji.
• Tapir: Crawling ahead.

Moves 31 to 40  

• Uberdude: Atari
• jvloenen: Connect
• Uberdude: Connect
• jvloenen: Play in the middle of the largest open space.
• Uberdude: Atari on boundary of moyos
• tapir: Connection on boundary of moyos
• Uberdude: Take the corner points.
• jvloenen: Block
• Uberdude: Obvious extension
• tapir: Obvious hane

Moves 21 to 30  

• Uberdude: Hello. Extend for shape and to develop influence.
• jvloenen: Welcome. And we like to have your cutting stone.
• Uberdude: Extend from our wall to develop moyo
• jvloenen: Invade
• Uberdude: Pincer attack
• jvloenen: Getting out
• Uberdude: There is death in the hane
• jvloenen: Please, have mercy
• Uberdude: for now...
• jvloenen: So we better make eyes fast

At 30 http://imgur.com/YZia5.jpg

Moves 11 to 20  

• isd: nobi train
• jvloenen: Jump.
• isd: nobi train
• tapir: use public transport when available!
• isd: nobi train (My team think i'm playing this because it's a good move, but actually I'm just trying to nobi across the board.)
• tapir: hane at the head of the train
• isd: Why doesn't my team have another captain :'(
• jvloenen: How strong is your nobi train driver? You don't need him anymore.
• isd: we pass.
• jvloenen: You passed at K16? A little schizophrenic eh?

20 moves http://imgur.com/RdGtk.jpg

Moves 1 to 10  

• isd: Well we had to start somewhere...
• tapir: Flexible answer, looking forward to
• isd: art class
• jvloenen: Last corner.
• isd: Don't know how to describe this one
  • ThorAvaTahr How about kakari?
• jvloenen: A normal quiet response.
• isd: like a swan floating on a smooth lake.
  • celebrir: Wait a moment, at our subpage he choosed J4 so I'm not sure which one he wanted, but I guess it should be J4
  • isd: misclicked! there, adjusted it.
• jvloenen: Misclicked in a text-editor? The black team isn't panicking I hope?
• Pressing down on the poor white stone
• tapir: A normal quiet response.

The fun begins again http://imgur.com/liqdM.jpg

Moves 56 to 61  

and have been bothering me since they were played, but I've struggled to articulate why. They seem to make a kind of sense: white is looking for some sabaki, so black plays solidly to deny white these possibilities.

However, now I come across this problem below in Nagahara's Strategic Concepts of Go...

SCoG: Problem 50  

SCoG: Black to play
In response to , Black plays keima with . Next, White tries to make sabaki by attaching at . How can Black utilize his thick wall to prevent White from carrying out his plans?

SCoG: Problem 50 -- correct answer  

SCoG: Correct
The correct answer is for Black to play the keima of . This is the vital point for both players. Now there is no way for White to make sabaki or to escape. The sequence to shows one variation.

SCoG: Problem 50 -- incorrect answer  

SCoG: Incorrect
If Black descends with , becomes kikashi and White immediately jumps to . Black will not be able to capture these White stones and so Black's wall is rendered useless. The lesson that should be learned from this example is that when one is strong in one part of the board, he should not become embroiled in a fight because his opponent will easily be able to make sabaki. In Correct, Black hit White's vital point of sabaki before he could execute his kikashi. Black, however, was able to do this because of his stable formation in this part of the board which rendered White's subsequent kikashi useless.

Wu Ren Go 3 -- Moves 56 to 61  

Andy: So now I think I can articulate my misgivings over and . By playing solidly this way within his sphere of influence, both and become kikashi and Black has been forced. I don't have any better moves to suggest for Black, but I feel better now being able to describe explicitly what only felt vaguely problematic before.

Any other comments or suggestions?