@Maharani, @Vsotvep, if you want my help somewhere, just tell me.
Looks like thatās under control so Iāll kill the blue stone.
Wait, @yebellz @Feijoa we probably need to rethink our moves.
Well, it seems we end up with a similiar position if playing differently. So maybe letās not bother and see what happens next round.
Occupying neutral points in what otherwise would be considered dame as a good strategy, it kind of saves them for later when I or @Maharani have time to play dame (as I think we should at the moment probably focus on connecting and expanding).
Another idea may be to remove eyespace from the Pink group in the lower right, perhaps we can get to some kind of āinverse sekiā position (mutually dead) with the green group next to it, and itās not certain then which group will survive longer.
Please elaborateā¦?!
Well, the green stones at the bottom do not have the four eyes required to be alive, but neither does the pink group yet. I donāt know which of the two will be captured first, or if the pink group will be able to make 4 eyes, but we should aim for capturing the pink stones.
Especially if we manage to connect the Blue-Black chain in such a way that the Blue-White chain becomes cut off from the left side.
I meant āmutually deadā in the sense that mutual life / seki is a situation where two opposing groups are only alive because the other group cannot capture it without being captured first. Mutually dead would be two groups that are both dead, unless the other group is captured first.
Like both groups being captured at the same time? Thatās the only way I can think of a mutual death.
For example. You could also see it as a seki, but seki doesnāt really exist in a game with simultaneous moves.
Anyway, itās not the terminology thatās the main point, I think the pink group is killable, thatās what I wanted to point out.
Round 83
Team | Blue | Green | Pink |
---|---|---|---|
Black | @Maharani: N6 | @Jon_Ko: R1 | @Vsotvep: Q4 |
White | @yebellz: N6 | @Feijoa: N6 | @terrific: P6 |
Feijoa, Maharani and yebellz collide at N6. No chains are removed. New Position:
Check-in Time for Round 84: 2022-06-01T17:00:00Z
@yebellz, when the green chain dies, letās play N6 and N7 and try to trick them so that Blue-Black collides with my stone and yours gets to live.
For now Iāll work on killing Black chains on the bottom.
Also @martin3141 itās really Round 84.
Right, thank you! I edited the post accordingly.
Iāll reduce the liberties of the black chain as well. There are 8 moves we can play. To avoid collision, Iāll play one of the 4 candidate moves: F3, F4, L1, L2
Actually, green L2 seems good. Iāll leave that move to you. Also, letās leave 2 or 3 liberty reducing moves to @yebellz , since I am not seeing anything emergent blue.
Currently there is no round 82 and it says āRound 83ā twice, so I think the first round 83 actually is round 82.
Yes that makes a lot of sense!
Finally all the time Iāve spent studying is really paying off.
Round 84
Team | Blue | Green | Pink |
---|---|---|---|
Black | @Maharani: R7 | @Jon_Ko: L1 | @Vsotvep: T3 |
White | @yebellz: J4 | @Feijoa: J4 | @terrific: T2 |
yebellz and Feijoa collide at J4. Placing all stones ā¦
ā¦ T3 is removed. New Position:
Check-in Time for Round 85: 2022-06-03T20:00:00Z
White being efficient again
Iāll attack the bottom group. Specifically, at J3.
Sorry for the delay, everyone