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.
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 think I falsely deduced from that that a stone’s primary colour (black/white) took priority over its secondary colour as far liberties are concerned. (In that example, R9 would have been captured despite being part of a blue chain, because it was a “black chain consisting of one stone”).
Which, thinking more about it, would mean that the secondary colour is only ever cosmetic, and my assumption nonsensical…
Okay, duh, so if a group of stones includes a liberty-less chain of a given colour, that chain is removed from the board, regardless of what other colour-chains with liberties those stones may be a part of. Makes much more sense
How about this: @Jon_Ko plays T11, @Maharani T13 and I play P10, then we will almost certainly capture the S12 stones (assuming Feijoa is indeed going to attempt capturing me instead of defending) and it’s impossible to kill the Q12 stones.