Thursday, October 27, 2011

Unexpected Move

A few days ago I had someone play this against me.

 


I had not seen it before and suspected it wasn't joseki, but the question is how to deal with it. If you want to see the game and how I dealt with it, click here.

Another interesting situation which came up in that game has to do with a capturing race starting at move 176. It is a simple capturing race according to the Hunter book (Counting Liberties and Winning Capturing Races). Still, I was as always surprised to see how much harder it is to read this out in a game, in 30 seconds byo yomi,than from the comfort of your arm chair in studying the Hunter book. Looking back I should have tenuki'ed from it much earlier I think.
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2 comments:

Tomasz Ślązok said...

In your game answer looks good enough, but later white 10 and looks very slack and slow.

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