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This is a game I just played on IGS and I feel that some of the moves exemplify my new strategy. I will comment the game here.

F.S. if you have questions about this game, post them at the end and I will add the comments to the game record here. Good luck and I hope this game exemplifies my MagneticStonesIdea, showing how it can be put into practice.

MagneticStonesQuestion 1

Black: Kungfu IGS 3k* White: an IGS 2k*

[Diagram]
Diag.: Once you start down the road there is no going back.

With the feeling that 4 aims at an inside approach against the marked black stone, I play 5.

With white 6, 7 is the first magnetic stones idea. 7, in my mind, aims at reducing the left side, possibly with a move at c8. And one cannot deny the impressive framework I have already started to build.

White 10 is the first panic move. Now that white is panicking, I feel that I am doing well.


[Diagram]
Diag.: Black 3 and white 8 at marked white stone.

1 might strike you as odd. It is an attack on the right side group (look at the field surrounding the group), aiming around a or b, or something. I feel that a simple descent is not strong enough. With this, I weaken the right side group considerably. From 2 to 4 my thickness is completed. Why the ko-shape with 5-7? Because I want to keep sente. White connects which is ideal for my purposes, and I honte at 8.

White 10 was an odd move which I find only helped me attack his group. Can you guess the next move by black after the obvious 'c'?


[Diagram]
Diag.: 19x19 diagram

Black 3 is the 2nd magnetic stones move. I have a wall. With 3, white's 2 stones' magnetic force has been weakened enough that 3 cuts them. Black 3 was made after about 2 seconds of deliberation because of the magnetic stones theory. Who would think to move at black 3? But it's possible, I think. By black 7, the marked white stone has been placed under my control, or so it seems. Black 9 is the correct block in this situation, in my opinion, due to K4-K9-R7-Q10 magnetic field (moyo).


[Diagram]
Diag.: 19x19 diagram

White chooses to hane in the lower left, another desparate move to shake things up. But the magnetic field is now too strong for these games, and with 3 black could not have hoped for a better line of play (imo, of course).


[Diagram]
Diag.: Tian Xue (Death Touch)

Knowing the power of K9 to reduce the left, and the magnetic force of the black wall against the top, black choses a 3-3 invasion. Whichever way white blocks will be bad for white, and the invasion is definately sente imo. In a nutshell, Black makes a lot of territory here, while white builds a nice wall. However white's potential to make territory here is severely limited because black is already touching white's magnetic field.

VARIATION:


[Diagram]
Diag.: White makes this play in sente?

If white makes this play, instead of the one he actually made (at the marked white stone), I could respond this way:


[Diagram]
Diag.: White makes this play in sente?

(Black 8 takes ko)

A ko fight! Well, there was a ko for the life of the center group which black lost. But, in this case, my center group might live, and I got a lot of points out of that other ko fight in my opinion. But, who knows what would have happened like this.


[Diagram]
Diag.: Or this way?

Black 0 is ok because if white a, black descent and then at c captures some stones. (while a is uner attack now). This line of play is what I would have come up with in a 20 byoyomi game.

Anyways, as predicted, white would move near D10 soon. What is black's next move? Think magnetically.


[Diagram]
Diag.: 19x19 diagram (black 53 to white 62)

1 is a possible move anyways, but due to K9, I ignore white 2 and perform another corner invasion. Black 7 may seem strange to you but I feel the heat of white 2 now, actually, and consider that 7 is possible and perhaps desirable. White somehow doesen't take advantage of my slack and moves 8. (I didn't think too long for black 7, sorry). Actually, 8 was what I wanted anyways.

New comment: If you look at what happened until black 9, black lost a few points. Well, he -solidified- about 10 in this sequence while white -solidified- about 18. So did black lose? First, maybe not- white had 2 stones on that corner. If white attached to f3 first, white would have gained much more. Secondly, the loss of black 1 above is OK because black 1 being inside white's territory allows me to move closer into white's moyo. Now, a move which would normally be considered too deep a reduction is OK because it can escape by magnetically threatening to connect to black 1. So now, again, think magnetically. What is black's next move here? (think 3k* magnetically, that is.. :))


[Diagram]
Diag.: 19x19 diagram

What's up with black 1? In this sequence, white has demonstrated that there is indeed a perceived weakening of a sort of field between black 1 and the marked black stone, and he has moved to protect that weakening.

But by black 7, it is evident that I have canceled out most of his magnetic field in the center. He has to work very hard to capture the reducing group now. I'd call 1 to 7 a success. After white 10, black a, white b. The power of the magnetic forces has been made evident and all bets are off in this game now.


[Diagram]
Diag.: 19x19 diagram

I feel white 2 is not so good because of the loss of the marked black stone. 4 is much better so I move 5 to protect the bottom. White 6 doesen't seem so good after black 7 and 9. Black 9 actually might not be so good. More slackness? Well, I *am* only 3k*. After white 10, the center and bottom right are sealed off (a to e).


[Diagram]
Diag.: 19x19 diagram

Black 4 wants to close off the right center. It's a nasty looking ko fight but here is the board when white finally wins the ko fight:


[Diagram]
Diag.: 19x19 diagram

Black, in sente, now starts taking yose moves. The score?

Black: 123.0 White: 111.5 Black wins by 11.5 points (komi 0.5).

So, is there something to this theory? who knows. If I can get another good example game, I will post it here, if desired.

kungfu IGS 3k*.



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