Thursday, January 17, 2008

2008-01-17:
No sun today, but still warm enough that it keeps on melting. And then really, in the late afternoon also the shower pipes are again free.
You may guess what I am doing later...

Yesterday evening I watched on KGS a game between two 3-kyu players. Exiting game, capturing races, ko-fights! But I was amazed by the amount of crude moves and reading-mistakes. One example that really stroke me:


Position is in lower right corner
Black to play
Black had a very comfortable lead
No time-pressure, both players have plenty of time


Black started at S3 and started a ko-fight (after he played at later stage T3) instead of playing at R4 with easy life...

3 comments:

mikong said...

If black R4, white can play T5 and make seki, right?

Katya said...

on behalf of Markus
Yes, but playing T5 is gote, eg W T5, B sente somewhere else, W S3, B T1, W T2. No problems for Black.
Actually, if Black starts with S3 (instead of R4) it is also ok as long as Black doesn't play T3... In the real game Black played at a later stage T3 and started the ko.

Anonymous said...

Why not just tenuki?