Si vs Dan 280406 B - W Res
I played Dan on Thursday. I'd been reading quite a bit following my defeat last time. I found that playing speed games against Many Faces (which I always lose) was giving me a better grounding for my reading, and seemed to help with my intuition.
I also reread certain chapters of Toshiro Kageyama's Lesson's In The Fundamentals Of Go and felt I got much more out of it than before, I guess because I have more games behind me. The killer chapter, and I think the one that helped me out in this game in particular, was Kage's discussion of correct endgame strategy. When Dan began invading my framework, instead of simply defending I used it as an opportunity to stage a bigger invasion of his territory. This allowed me to encircle the group of white stones centre left as depicted.
Daniel resigned, which was a first for either of us, and I ran a couple of play throughs beyond it which largely favoured black, so perhaps it was the right decision. He had lost the top right corner in quite a silly mistake, tenukiing when he should have connected, and had he not made the mistake the game would probably have evened out. But if you see a pig, steal it...
There's also a lot of adji on the board, which MFOG tended to exploit rather effectively.
He's keen to play again, perhaps with less wine being drunk on both sides.
I also reread certain chapters of Toshiro Kageyama's Lesson's In The Fundamentals Of Go and felt I got much more out of it than before, I guess because I have more games behind me. The killer chapter, and I think the one that helped me out in this game in particular, was Kage's discussion of correct endgame strategy. When Dan began invading my framework, instead of simply defending I used it as an opportunity to stage a bigger invasion of his territory. This allowed me to encircle the group of white stones centre left as depicted.
Daniel resigned, which was a first for either of us, and I ran a couple of play throughs beyond it which largely favoured black, so perhaps it was the right decision. He had lost the top right corner in quite a silly mistake, tenukiing when he should have connected, and had he not made the mistake the game would probably have evened out. But if you see a pig, steal it...
There's also a lot of adji on the board, which MFOG tended to exploit rather effectively.
He's keen to play again, perhaps with less wine being drunk on both sides.
posted by Hamilton's Brain | 12:34 pm
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