Simultaneous Fractional Go Game 1

[martin3141]

Round 24

Team	Blue	Green	Pink
Black	@Maharani: K5	@Jon_Ko: G7	@Vsotvep: M12
White	@yebellz: H6	@Feijoa: N14	@terrific: J8

New Position:

Check-in Time for Round 25: 2021-12-29T11:00:00Z

This middle-game fight is fascinating! I do not know what to expect next

[mafidufa]

@terrific played J7 or J8? diagram and move table are contradictory.

as a spectator, very fun to watch

[martin3141]

Right, I apologise for the mistake, and thank you for correcting it!

[Feijoa]

Seems like I have to play O15 now.

[martin3141]

Sorry for being late, I was feeling a bit ill earlier today.

Round 25

Team	Blue	Green	Pink
Black	@Maharani: J7	@Jon_Ko: J2	@Vsotvep: O15
White	@yebellz: J6	@Feijoa: N17	@terrific: J5

New Position:

Check-in Time for Round 26: 2021-12-31T17:00:00Z

[Feijoa]

I realized that if I play something like D3 it would look lonely but actually be hard to kill since it’s touching large chains of both green and white. A similar thing happened with the blue moves this turn.

So @terrific let me know if you need some help harassing any of those groups. Otherwise I do still have plenty to work on in my corner!

[terrific]

Yea, working on the corner seems reasonable.

[Feijoa]

Okay, that’s what I’m doing.

[Maharani]

Not feeling very confident about my move, nor my last one…

[Jon_Ko]

Our position around your last move is okay. Black+green is still in trouble, but so are the two white chains that just bumped into each other. Black+blue has help on the right and the top. You can put some pressure on white and you just need to to leave some space for my green and Vsotvep’s pink.

[martin3141]

I set the next time to 2021-12-31T17:00:00Z but actually I won’t be able to post the update until the next day after new years, around 2022-01-01T07:00:00Z

Happy new year everybody

[martin3141]

Round 26

Team	Blue	Green	Pink
Black	@Maharani: G10	@Jon_Ko: K2	@Vsotvep: N18
White	@yebellz: K6	@Feijoa: O14	@terrific: G2

O13 is removed.
New Position:

Check-in Time for Round 27: 2022-01-03T11:00:00Z

There has been no collision for the last eight rounds. You are coordinating very well to avoid them

[Feijoa]

Ooh, now I can take the opportunity to cut @Vsotvep at P15.

[Vsotvep]

I call bluff

[Jon_Ko]

But do you dare not to connect?

[martin3141]

Round 27

Team	Blue	Green	Pink
Black	@Maharani: M5	@Jon_Ko: H4	@Vsotvep: O18
White	@yebellz: L6	@Feijoa: M18	@terrific: L4

No Collision again!

New Position:

Check-in Time for Round 28: 2022-01-05T13:00:00Z

[Jon_Ko]

@Maharani, I think we need to cut pink at K4 and/or M4. I might play at K4, but I won’t play at M4, so you could play there.

[Feijoa]

I was hoping/expecting @Vsotvep would try to block the cut so that my response on the top would have been unchallenged.

Now it’s a little more complicated, with the two possible places to separate those groups. At P15, if we collide, I lose that battle. With a collision at M17 I think I still have a ~50% chance of separating the groups in a local fight, depending on how we play on the fourth line. Also, I get a lot more liberties, and if it fails I can still play P15 later.

So I’ll go for M17.

Also, O18 was my “backup move” for a long time so I’ll need to find a new one

[Vsotvep]

@Feijoa

I was hoping/expecting @Vsotvep would try to block the cut so that my response on the top would have been unchallenged.

I already told you, it was a bluff

I can read you like a book.

@Feijoa

So I’ll go for M17.

It’s funny, because I already expected that, and am playing it myself.

[Maharani]

Yeah. It’s probably next to impossible to prevent white from connecting to the right side, but we probably need to connect out ourselves either way. I’ll play M4.