Well, they play a large avalanche, and that’s still not played at my level (4 – 5k.) But their play is poor in the bottom left, and I don’t think that they are stronger than I am. So I’ll guess 4k.
Personally I only know this variation of the large avalanche (and that not fully):
so I couldn’t say whether or not they play their variation correctly.
I’ll say it was a 12 kyu correspondence game. Consulting joseki dictionaries is permitted in correspondence games and apart from the avalanche the rest of the game feels very DDK.
Edit. Whoops forgot the game took 55 minutes, even so I’ll keep my same guess and reasoning.
They are worse than 5k for sure (they usually follow things that are happening around the area instead of playing big moves. Not to mention the lower right - you rarely ignore that pincer) - I would say 7k .
They basically covered strong SDK range completely.
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Hell, you guys and gals are savages, you just roasted two very good players.
The answer is 1d https://online-go.com/game/12869100
Either you need to lower your standards or OGS needs to change ranking system
I guess closest one was AdamR, not bullseye, but good enough. So, congrats!
Hello, good people of OGS. I finally have time to choose another game, how about one more round of guessing?
Tried to make sure that these aren’t streamers or anyone famous, so should be just a regular run-of-the-mill OGS game. Both players have the same rank. Lasted 1 hour 25 minutes, it seems. Features ko fight and life and death!
So, how strong are these players? What rank would you assign? Make your bets!
Edit: for anyone who is new, in short this is a forum game where we try to guess players’ rank just from how they played in the game in question, results can be surprising!
Why are the time controls concealed? I find this game baffling because W plays so much weaker than B. W is destroyed in the opening and should have resigned much sooner. Based on the elapsed time you told us, the rate is 25.8 seconds per move including any maintime that may have existed. So this is a pretty fast game. Therefore, assuming their equal ranks are valid, I deduce that W is much weaker at fast play. Consequently, I cannot guess their rank.
Blacks invasion into the top left was impressive. White also showed some skills in leaning attacks and some tesuji in the end, although he might have lost his concentration. I would say 5k, about the same as me.