Dieter: about "finishing a pro game" as a title (2012-01-08 21:30) [#9223]

Just concerning the first entry - I used to think that the most difficult part of the game is chuban - middle game, am I right? There aren't so many books around about chuban as there are about fuseki, for example, and this indicates that fuseki is easier - one can learn much about it from a book. -- Bizonbyk (24k KGS)

Not to digress too far, but chuban is usually fighting (at least in my poor games); and how well you do in the fighting is directly related to how well you placed your stones in the fuseki. It's easy to get a stone into the right area but have it turn out to be useless or even harmful because it was one line from the "ideal" spot. So, chuban is hard, but if you're like most people, you'll soon regard fuseki (planning for chuban) as even harder. This is really why there are more English books about fuseki -- it's more mysterious (therefore, more people seek to learn it from books; and it's harder to contradict the author). -- TakeNGive (11k)

I'd like to offer the opinion that this first offering is a little too ambitious. This isn't really "finishing" a pro game - the game is no where near finished! :-) To finish this game we would have to post a few reasonable guesses about what happened next followed by another 200 plays worth of typical amateur blundering about (we might as well call it on-going game 3 then ;-)

I suggest that "finishing a pro game" should start rather nearer the finish - about early yose. That way we can't stray too far away from reality! -- Dave Sigaty

As I understand it, the point is to stray from reality. It's not so much an exercise in that form, more a curiosity. Finish the game and post the result here. It doesn't have to be perfect! -- Anselm