When the pro says “I know empty triangle is often a bad move, but this situation is the exception” and the AI says “no exception, bad shape is bad, good shape is good”.
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I’m not sure in which thread to post this.
I found a game where most of the moves are played in ko threats:
White launches a first ko at move 76 on the west side, even though it looks like Black has more ko threats.
At move 87, Black ignores White’s threat and finishes the first ko by making a double-ponnuki and killing a small white group on the west side.
As a result of White’s executing the threat, a new ko starts on the east side at move 98. Black “wins the ko” a first time at move 103, but decides that simply finishing it is not enough, so instead he plays a tiger’s mouth. The ko starts again.
At move 122, it looks like White has won the ko, but instead of finishing the ko, White plays a move that creates a lot of ko threats. The ko restarts, but now White has a lot of threats.
At move 150, White wins the ko, but decides that finishing it by connecting is not enough, so he plays an atari on the black stones that surround the ko, to increase its value. The ko restarts. At move 155, Black connects his stone which is in atari, and White plays a double-atari on two other Black stones surrounding the ko. The ko continues. At move 161, Black caves in, saves the more important of his two stones and lets White capture the third stone. Finally this second ko is finished.
157, 160: recapturing the ko
At move 172, White starts a new ko on the north side. At move 189, Black turns this ko into a double-ko that favours Black. So, the ko’s value is greatly diminished, but they keep playing it for small endgame/sente reasons.
At move 199, it looks to me like this ko is completely resolved, it’s a simple double-ko that favours Black, so there is no point in playing it anymore. But for some reason, White keeps taking it from time to time. I can only guess that it’s a “timesuji”: taking the double-ko is a worthless-but-costless sente move for White, so if the game is played with a byo-yomi, playing this thoughtless sente move can add some time to the clock.
Finally at move 241, White resigns, with the double ko still on the board.
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What a fun game! I watched the beginning live and caught the rest later. I’m very happy to have Ida Atsushi in a title match, just to have more variety.
At least this game was not the same old 50 more AI opening.
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Noodle Cup is about to start.
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Yes.
Looks like Fan Tingyu and Ichiriki Ryo.
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3 dan
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Congrats to her. She has been playing (and winning) a lot of games for sure. Too bad she seems sleepy in that photo.
I think promoting (marketing) the female players is a good idea and I wish I knew more about how well it’s working in Japan. I have to imagine that there are a lot of kids inspired by Sumire.
I look forward to more.
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Yeah, most likely taken right after the games.
Fan Tingyu finally fell. And that’s all for noodles cup this month.
We have female version of this though. Lake Cup Seoul Shinmun World Women’s Go Overlord Battle or whatever. I have no memory of the games. They were in May, anyone remembers what was going on there?
Apparently two Japanese and two Chinese players left and four Chinese.
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According to goratings.org 's Elo rankings:
Choi Jeong, #1 woman, #96 total;
Ueno Asami, #6 woman, #219 total.
Also, Ueno Asami is #2 Japanese woman, behind Fujisawa Rina.
That’s one way of looking at it. Another is “that’s a lot more money than I’ve made playing Go” 
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Well, I make at least some money playing Go. 
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Oh wait I’m not supposed to play corr moves during working hours? 
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Soon gonna have to define yourself as a pro player
Any insight on what it was that Yoda did? Something he wrote online?
I think we’ll never know
Ueno Asami got destroyed by Fujisawa Rina. It’s baffling how poorly the game went for Ueno.
Go nowadays
I like the continuation even more. “Yep, that seems settled”
This is of course from today’s Nakamura Sumire vs Xie Yimin game. It’s nice to see young players defeat older generation.
Big day for Fujisawa Rina. She’s playing in Juudan main tournament (elimination) to decide the challenger. And she defeated #18 Japanese player Rin Kanketsu. Notice how the game is even for 80 moves. She’s got her work cut out for her, she’ll have to play #5 Yo Seiki next.
Of course, Samsung Cup is going on. Top games are something else. Fighting, nothing makes sense. Results, winners are on the left:
Ichiriki Ryo 9p - 
Oh Yujin p9
Kyo Kagen 9p - Han Woojin 5p
Yang Dingxin 9p - Shin Minjun 9p
Xu Haohong 8p - Geum Jiwoo 4p
Tan Xiao 9p - Lee Changho 9p
Kim Jiseok 9p - Zhao Chenyu 9p
Tang Weixing 9p - Yoo Ohseong 7p
Shin Jinseo 9p - Mi Yuting 9p
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