Yes, all chains need liberties, and each stone is part of one chain for each of its colours. Right now R9 is a black chain consisting of one stone, which has one liberty left.
It’s limiting black+pink’s and white+green’s space in the center, so it will get crowded there.
I think it’s quite essential that R9 doesn’t get captured.
I will play Q9.
Me too (just in case).
Sorry for the delay, I kinda forgot a little bit and the last move submission came in three hours ago
Round 19
Team | Blue | Green | Pink |
---|---|---|---|
Black | @Maharani: Q9 | @Jon_Ko: D8 | @Vsotvep: P11 |
White | @yebellz: T10 | @Feijoa: Q13 | @terrific: E8 |
After placing all Stones …
… D8 has no liberties and gets captured.
New Position:
Check-in Time for Round 20: 2021-12-16T23:00:00Z
The mind games in simultaneous move go are brutal!
A bit of luck is definetely part of the game ^^
Did you let a random number generator decide your move?
Yes, but I’m not proud of it .
I would’ve played D8 as well.
Yes, I was expecting Vsotvep to connect one way or the other but he was a step ahead of me on this one.
I’d like to play Q11 to kill his stones and connect mine, but he can counteract that by colliding, leaving my new stone trapped with the others. So I might as well play something else, like O12 or P14.
(I will leave the blue-black stone at S10 to @yebellz since I’d just be trapped if I killed it myself.)
But then, since I’m not playing Q11, there’s no urgency for Vsotvep to play there either. So maybe I should consider it after all?
I’ve discovered that you generally try to mislead us about what your next move is, so I’ll assume that you are actually going to play Q11.
Of course saying this itself will have an effect as well
I hope S11 survives, so that we may capture R10 / R11.
@martin3141 something is wrong with your time widget this time:
Meanwhile, I’m thinking about how I can credibly select a random move…
This is the reminder. All but @Maharani have submitted a move.
Deadline for next reminder: 2021-12-18T19:00:00Z
Oops… sorry everyone.
Round 20
Team | Blue | Green | Pink |
---|---|---|---|
Black | @Maharani: S11 | @Jon_Ko: F5 | @Vsotvep: Q11 |
White | @yebellz: O11 | @Feijoa: O12 | @terrific:D5 |
After placing all stones …
… the two (white | green) stones R10 & R11 are removed.
New Position:
Check-in Time for Round 21: 2021-12-21T07:00:00Z
Maharanis move was a bit late but hit a good spot
By the way, I know that Feijoa prefers that players who missed their move are announced publicly, but how do the others think about it?
The alternative would be to remind these players privately and publicly only reveal that some submissions are missing.
I feel a bit bad about putting someone on the spot like that, although the intention is not to make this person feel bad.
I have no preference
I think public reminders are alright.
More than half of us have been publicly reminded anyway