Hosai Masao - Two Ladders Mirror Go

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This game, played between Sugiuchi Masao (9p) and Fujisawa Hosai (9p), involves a mirror go where two ladders were played almost all the way to the end.

It is mentioned in Kageyama Toshiro's Lessons in the Fundamentals of Go as a game that will "go down in the annals of professional play as an all-time freak".

[Diagram]

Moves 25 to 34

[Diagram]

Moves 35 to 44



You can see the complete game at the GoBase Replay Service ([ext] http://www.gobase.org/service/uncgi/bin/replay-sgf?gam=/games/japan/titles/meijin-old/1/game-l46.sgf&off=null).

Sharp readers might realize that this game is almost identical to the second example of countering mirror go.

% TODO: Expand on the game by saying when the mirror go was aborted, and also Black eventually won by resignation.

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