But it is explicitly stated in the rules of this game. Maybe I am wrong and there is something I do not see - but my goal was to win not to take the highest possible place, which affected my gameplay a lot.
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I guess I will clarify the goal is to place as high as possible for the next set of rules if I host another.
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I am pretty sure there even was some kind of discussion about it (“sacrificing to let an ally win”), but I cannot find it quickly.
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Is that really what happened here? I was always working my hardest to potentially win, and even lasted longer than Red, and missed victory by just one liberty. Perhaps, I could have been just slightly more ambitious (rather than cautiously defending) during some parts of the middle game, and I would have had it in the end.
Even at the very end, maybe I missed the opportunity to suggest that Red play just one more move inside before suiciding in the top-right. Maybe I could have made a potentially successful argument for deserving it more because I had a more challenging start than Blue.
I think you were expecting a bit too much from players at the beginning. The way I saw it was that I could have done more to impede Blue and Red near the very beginning of the game, but I felt that it might not accomplish much besides maybe shifting the advantage from one to the other, while also drastically weakening my own position and actually decreasing my chances of winning.
I was taking a flexible best position possible mindset, since I did feel that I had a slim shot of winning from the beginning, but I was also placing a high premium for preserving the probability of winning. I was also considering that seeing some other weaker players eliminated might free up some crucial room for me to expand, if only I could survive long enough. It definitely hurts one’s chances of winning, if one leaves too much risk of being eliminated.
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Based on the two games we have already played, it is very likely eliminated players’ stones mostly remain on the board so outlasting them does not really open up much space.
Sorry, I thought it won’t change the game result.
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Thank you for the apology. I am sure you did not mean any harm.
Your post did not affect the game, but please try to follow the rules people post in their threads.
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