Detective Go 🔍 The First Game

shinuito · May 24, 2021, 6:52am

shinuito · May 24, 2021, 8:46am

Update:

I have 16/19 stones as I got one stone captured at G16, and collided with G15 and B5.
18/19 stones, collision at D4.
16/19 stones, collisions with Q6, J16, N14.
3/20 visible, 7/20 captured (G15, G17,F16, N14, B5 C5, D4), so that’s 10 unaccounted for.

Do we want another move at say E2 or E3, or B3 or C4 just see if there are any more stones there – less because I’m worried we might be captured now, more so just to know where the rest of the stones are, and to help evaluate our position.

If one player, maybe @Vsotvep or @martin3141 for the (E moves) played one of these moves, the other could look elsewhere.

Maybe consider E3, M16 and something else?

bugcat · May 24, 2021, 9:57am

Beat you to it!

martin3141 · May 24, 2021, 10:17am

I feel like the four stones near C14 are a possible next tartet. It looks like they should be able to connect to E16 though.

I would like to play in the center, testing if yebellz has stones there. Are you ok with me playing G10 this turn?

yebellz · May 24, 2021, 10:19am

By the way, for the particular YouTube video that I posted, there actually are English subtitles available translating all of the Japanese speech.

Vsotvep · May 24, 2021, 10:31am

Yes, G10 is fine. I will play C2 then, should bring me closer to getting two eyes and hopefully reveal some information.

I think @shinuito should make sure the C14 or the C9 stones aren’t in danger. Imagine C12 / C11 / C10 all being connected, that would be very nice.

shinuito · May 24, 2021, 10:59am

I can play C10 now I guess since that group has one less liberty and hopefully if it’s surrounded I can reveal it a move earlier.

Vsotvep · May 24, 2021, 6:36pm

So, everyone on board with

C10
C2
G10

then?

martin3141 · May 24, 2021, 6:54pm

I can’t help but feel that C10 will make bad shape
But maybe that’s precisely why it’s a good move; yebellz will never see it coming
Let’s do it.

Vsotvep · May 24, 2021, 6:55pm

If the goal is to connect the two groups, it can’t be helped for now, right?

Vsotvep · May 24, 2021, 7:01pm

The problem with good shape, is that it’s often easy to disconnect if you can’t see your opponent’s stones

shinuito · May 24, 2021, 7:31pm

Im okay with it. Yeah c10 is bad, and it doesn’t do anything for liberties, but if it’s a collision it’s good to see it early, if it’s not a collision it’s one step closer to connecting.

martin3141 · May 24, 2021, 7:50pm

Ok lets go for it. @yebellz

yebellz · May 25, 2021, 12:55am

Detectives Win

I resign

Thank you for the game!

The Kibitz thread is now public here: Kibitz for the Detective Go First Game

shinuito · May 25, 2021, 2:29am

Thank you for the game! The kibitz thread looks really cool, and the quips/memes/videos when stones were discovered/captured added to the fun

It does seem like a tough game for the fugitive looking through the kibitz thread at times, but it also felt tough as a detective, trying to imagine the worst case, but also the more realistic scenarios and then trying to make a plan based on it.

I think @martin3141 and @Vsotvep were better at making the plans

martin3141 · May 25, 2021, 7:50am

Thank you for the game @yebellz . It was a lot of fun and I love the idea of this variant.
Now that the stones are revealed, it looks like you were very close to capturing the lower-left in major fashion. Well played!