Fractional Team Go, Game 1

Oof, I had a couple beers tonight (it’s “beer week” in my city right now), let’s see…

I think it’s our only move if this weren’t 4-coloured rengo, but I’m not entirely sure in this variant. F1 would be white-atari, which requires me to fill G2, but then Martin can capture that, since G2 is blue-self-atari, which would need an immediate G2 by white-red afterwards, bringing us to:

Is that good?

As another option we could play F1, I guess? Blue-Black F2 wouldn’t be as much of a thread if I fill G2, since all blue stones would form a chain:

Those blue stones are going to be captured sooner or later, but I’m not sure if that’s necessarily a bad thing for us.

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