Simultaneous Fractional Go Game 1

Okay. Submitted

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The second image is indeed a much higher resolution image that has to get scaled down for display. Maybe it has something to do with how @martin3141 enters the code differently for a link?

When I want to link an image, I think I usually do it like this:

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Round 62

Team Blue Green Pink
Black @Maharani: T12 @Jon_Ko: R6 @Vsotvep: J13
White @yebellz: L9 @Feijoa: O11 @terrific: R11

After placing all stones …

… the big blue chain connected to Q10 contains a stone that was placed this round (L9). Hence the green chains at T10 and L11 (which contain no stones played this round) are removed first, freeing up liberties.
Furthermore R11 is removed. New Position:

fractional_game2_Round62_2

Check-in Time for Round 63: 2022-04-01T06:00:00Z

What a round, I think my heart skipped a beat when I saw the moves :smile:

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Right, so I’m not sure what @Feijoa was planning… Were you expecting a capture?

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@Maharani, you can create more eyes now, any of L10, L11, P12 or T10 will make the group more secure, and seem necessary to me.

I’ll spend this move trying to capture some white stones. Maybe @Jon_Ko wants to assist?

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Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhh, argh, sorry, I mean anyway, ahem, yes, that’s exactly what I was planning :persevere:

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I’m happy to help.

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@yebellz I’ll leave H8 to you since the two pink stones are not very important now.

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@Maharani has not submitted yet. Next reminder: 2022-04-02T08:00:00Z

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Sorry. Submitted.

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Round 63

Team Blue Green Pink
Black @Maharani: L11 @Jon_Ko: H8 @Vsotvep: J7
White @yebellz: E12 @Feijoa: L10 @terrific: E12

… notably there are multiple chains without liberties and all contain a stone placed this round.

  • the pink chain at E12
  • the white and green chains connected to L10
  • the pink chain connected to J9 as well as the two black chains H8 and J7

Thus all of these chains are removed simultaneously. New Position:

fractional_game2_Round63_2

Check-in Time for Round 64: 2022-04-03T19:00:00Z

This game keeps fascinating me :smiley:

By the way I’m very grateful that all players have continued playing up to this point. Keep it up, you are doing great!

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Cookie

fractional_game2_Round63_BlackWhite

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Dumb question: what do y’all think is the status of the bottom left? Is black clearly dead there? Or clearly alive? Or uncertain??

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Certainly not clearly alive. But I’m not yet ready to give it up totally.

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I’m stupid :clown_face:

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HA! I love what happened between @yebellz and @terrific. I was heavily doubting whether I should attempt that capture instead, and wasn’t sure if @Jon_Ko had noticed this as well. I decided that I’d try it if there was anything in Jon’s message that would hint at trying a different group than the J8 group, and couldn’t find any, thus I went for that group.

Certainly uncertain. Until a move ago, I was believing the O10 Blue group might’ve been dead under worst circumstances. Both the green groups and the pink groups in the lower left lack eyes, although the white part is clearly stronger than the black parts. I’m looking forward to finding out what will happen.


The endgame of this variant is without a doubt my favourite of any variant of Go that I know. I love the challenge of public communication and simultaneous moves, and the different colours bring so much depth and flavour. I might say this is my favourite variant so far.

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I’m sorry about messing up that capture two rounds ago! But yes, I’m having a ton of fun with this. I really don’t know what to do next; I found a really boring move that I’ll have to play at some point, but I don’t see anything really exciting to go after now.

@terrific want help with the lower left?

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I’m very happy to hear that you are enjoying the game :blush:

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I have noticed that white is down to two liberties, but until now I didn’t notice, that this lack of liberties might threaten the eyes of pink’s lower left group.

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Handling collisions by combining the colors of the stones is genius and elegantly simple.

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