The Second Go Battle Royale ⚔

I gotta hand it to you @antonTobi, you know how to make it exciting :smiley:
Unfortunately I can’t play N15 without getting captured there afterwards. So I play C2.

On mobile atm so no picture. Your move @yebellz

I believe this means that Green will win ^^
but it’s close.

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N15

Thank you for playing, @antonTobi!

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Back to @martin3141

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OOC: Thank you for playing @antonTobi!

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My reading was that Blue could play N15 - but I might have missed something.

I didn’t see a way for me to improve my place so I tried to set you two up for the more interesting endgame :slightly_smiling_face:

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Very close by my count. Nice! This has turned out to be an interesting game.

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I thought N15 would be possible for Blue, but I think next Green at O14 would work.

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Ah yes, I missed that Green lives in the corner:
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I am not seeing it. Let’s explore after the game finishes.

:+1:

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Since we are discussing it, I played it this way for Green:
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But then Blue at O14, green at M14, Blue at O15 would live for Blue.

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Yes, agreed. Thank you for pointing that out. These kinds of situations are the reason I am still a novice rank :upside_down_face:

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Really close. I think blue will win by only one more liberty.

There are two things wrong with this post:

  1. The rules specifically state only players may post
  2. You are stating future information about a game in progress

Please do not spoil other peoples’ enjoyment.

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Could have been slightly more interesting if you had played P5 first :wink:

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Blue plays P3:

battle_royale2_36

Back to @yebellz

I thought about Red N15:

battle_royale2_theory

If anybody captures, the lone stone at P15 would immediately get captured back.

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Oh, very cool. That would have been a nice play!

Red N15 was my first idea instead of P15, since it seems natural for me to disincentivize anybody from capturing me - however I expected Green to be content with second place (after Blue declines to capture me I think Green can’t afford to let me survive), so it would be a similar outcome.

So I picked P15 instead just because I wanted to see some more interesting stuff than an immediate recapture in the top right :slight_smile:

I did deliberately make the move at P3 as big as possible, because I was trying to make the other endgame (where Blue captures) as close as possible, and in that variation you are the one that gets P3… turns out all of that was based on the faulty assumption that Blue was able to safely capture.

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I think the endgame plays out like this, so perhaps it is time for me to resign

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I’ll just double-check that I’m reading this out correctly, since it is so close.

I made this remark

since, it could have ended like this, if Red had played just one more move

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At least I can honestly claim that I did not knowingly give the game to either Blue or Green, since I did not have a full understanding of the position :smile:

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I think it’s also fine to give the game to the player in-game-character you favour. I imagine this kind of situation will occur often with these rules, and it’s a part of the game :slightly_smiling_face:

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