My next move is “for fun” and not having to pretend like I understand how this variant works 
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I think I need to spend my next few moves connecting my two groups. Not exactly sure how this is going to work, but I guess I’ll start by extending along column P.
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Round 18
| Team | Blue | Green | Pink |
|---|---|---|---|
| Black | @Maharani: O13 | @Jon_Ko: D6 | @Vsotvep: S17 |
| White | @yebellz: S9 | @Feijoa: P12 | @terrific: D6 |
Jon_Ko and terrific collide at D6.
New Position:
Check-in Time for Round 19: 2021-12-15T11:00:00Z
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P12 was not on my radar when I submitted my move yesterday, but funnily enough was what the Inseong Hwang lecture I watched today was about, the elephant squeeze: 2020 e-Go Congress Lecture #4: Local Techniques, with In-seong Hwang 8d - YouTube
O13 was probably too loose?
I assume if blue-white plays Q9 next round and no one else plays locally, the black stone at R9 still gets captured even though it’s also blue?
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.
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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.
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I will play Q9.
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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! 
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Guess I’ll have to send an angry complaint to random.org.
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A bit of luck is definetely part of the game ^^
Did you let a random number generator decide your move?
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Yes, but I’m not proud of it 
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I would’ve played D8 as well.
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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?
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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.
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@martin3141 something is wrong with your time widget this time:
Meanwhile, I’m thinking about how I can credibly select a random move…
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This is the reminder. All but @Maharani have submitted a move.
Deadline for next reminder: 2021-12-18T19:00:00Z
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Oops… sorry everyone.
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