ko threat amplification
Enlarging the value of a ko threat, normally before the ko fight starts and usually by means of forcing plays that could themselves serve as threats. That is, in the typical case one player uses a sente sequence in advance of a fight to make a trade-off between number and size of threats available in some part of the board.
tderz: I wonder whether move W173 in this game serves as ko threat amplifier.
I think that this here is an example:
Jowa vs. Shinomiya Yonezo (2H-game, 1821) move 173 by Jowa:
- the ko is at B172
- later W183 and W189 are much bigger threats than the initial W173:
7 at O15
10 at O14
However, because this is complicated stuff, consider my contribution as a question. What is your opinion w.r.t. W173?
tderz:Additional question: Which program has an ASCII output, which is immediately ready for Senseis?
(here I used Pand-gGo, but it's a bit a mess)
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Dave: Kombilo's "File -> Export current position" has the option to directly produce SL format ("wiki" check box).
tderz: thanks a lot, Dave!