Guess rank game

2 KGS 9dans is the answer:
http://gokifu.com/s/1us1-gokifu-20140703-Butterfly2(9d)-kghin(9d).html

Butterfly2 is a pro https://senseis.xmp.net/?OhashiHirofumi
kghin is Chan Chi Hin, Chinese 6 dan http://gosensations.com/?id=2&server_id=1&new_id=1370

They played each other frequently, the game is 2 friends having fun… It was a difficult one to guess.

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Hmm well I got the part about them having fun right! lol but that’s pretty easy to guess when it comes to go :wink:

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A tricky blitz game played over 7 minutes. 7 minutes of time I’ll never get back.

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I wondered when someone would resuscitate this c:

The opening is, obviously, very peaceful. I very rarely see an opening that peaceful on OGS. It doesn’t look bad though.

The invasion at the top is a bit nifty… I’d be surprised if they were worse than 12k.

On the left side there are some good shapes, now I think they are SDK.
Black’s fighting skill is weak though, so probably low SDK.

I’m gonna guess 9k.

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3k. I agree with everything bugcat said, but also it is blitz.

Well, this didn’t quite take off. Anyway.

Summary

Although not a perfect hit, Eugene was very clever.
https://online-go.com/game/22824866

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It seems like all the forum games are going slow. As if everyone … went away for Easter!?

A correspondence game…

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I have a good one, but we have to finish Eugenes… so… 5k? Decent moves and knowledge of sequences, but too timid overall.

2k

There were some nice active play with good timing and sacrifices, and the kind of mistakes one plays when trying too hard. I’ll say strong sdk or low dan. I’ll venture 1d.

I’d say 6k. But I’m just a donkey.

Vsotvep is the winner! So is S_Alexander, who immediately recognised his old game:

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Interesting, isn’t it, how long a player can vaguely remember the feeling a game gave them? As long as they played it seriously.

Anyway, wanna guess? Only half an hour spent on so many moves.

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3k (ogs rank)
Where was the game played?

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I was gonna guess like 4kyu.

The double ko was funny in the upper left

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8 kyu.

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340 moves in half an hour. I was a little conservative guess they were 2k. My regress: 2d

I don’t understand new ranks anyway, I resign.

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This is an interesting game for me because I never play, and rarely even see, the “jump-out sanrensei” (8) instead of the usual “dive-in sanrensei” of (8) R17.

The peep (20) feels a bit vulgar, removing the S12 connection aji, but it’s not like I’d call it a mistake.

(38) is too hurried for my style, since I’d rather continue on the bottom side, but again I can’t really fault playing swiftly there.

(58) seems to have been a mistake, and a little fancy. (69) perhaps lacks some severity, but that could be a style approach.

Overall, my feeling is that the players are noticeably stronger than me (EGF 4k) but not massively stronger (not as much as, say, EGF 3d).

I guess that they’re 1k EGF, aka new-ranks 2d or, I suppose, old-ranks 2k – the same sort of range that terrific put forward.

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