Professional players making rookie mistakes

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Well, the title says it all

Let’s make a collection of professional go players making rookie mistakes

I got reminded of this first one by an early post in the Go Jokes topic:

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Here’s another one from the NHK cup:

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Even pros struggle with dames

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This one is slightly different: Cho Chikun “losing” on time because of a mistake by the referee.

What happens, is that the referee announces that Cho is starting his last period, which takes 30 seconds. Now, usually the referee calls every ten seconds, and starts a countdown during the last seconds. Here, however, he says nothing until the 30 seconds have passed, then Cho looks up, states that he has run out of time and plays his move. It appears that nobody reacted after that. He goes on to win the match, here’s the kifu.

Since the referee is a pro too, I’ll count this one :stuck_out_tongue: No idea who it is, though

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1:14 for the actual blunder.

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Another one (sneakily stolen from @snakesss mentioning it in chat)

Ke Jie, playing against Park Junghwan, forgets to connect up his stones:

Apparently featuring Chinese swearing, viewer discretion is advised :stuck_out_tongue:

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I love the sneaky look at 1:44:39.

EDIT: oh wow I should have kept watching.

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Uh oh! Language warning!

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I heard that too :joy::joy:

I’m really surprised it wasn’t censored

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oh come on that’s not fair. :frowning:

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What are you all doing at 3:45 in a Saturday morning? 'Cause I’m rewinding a Go professional game YT video trying to catch a swearing in a language I don’t know.

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You’re not alone :stuck_out_tongue:

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I’m with headphones and everything, I used to segment Asian dramas, I hope it paid off.

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He said 操(cào) twice. English f bomb.

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1:50:34? Or am I much off?

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He says it immediately before he slaps himself

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He slaps a lot, keep watching.

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Are they playing one over the other at some point?
Also, I hope nobody parked in Ke Jie’s spot that day, ooh boy.

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1:44:40! Yes! I can go sleep now.
(sorry for spamming, but this was intense)

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I watched this 3 or 4 times again this morning. I love the comentators’ reactions, especially Hua Xueming’s. So funny to me.

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