Variant Tournament

[Tschej]

https://www.govariants.com/game/67e9867b8dd5bd0afc7a4f69

I won by Time out x.x
Having no time warning really is a bit unfortunate :x
It was close in the end, but Valens was likely a few points ahead at the latest point of the game.

[martin3141]

@Tschej

Having no time warning really is a bit unfortunate :x

I agree, improving this is (now) on the ToDo-List.

[benjito]

Does black need to connect here? Can Black atari instead?

[Jon_Ko]

Atari and then what?

[benjito]

Ah shoot i thought it was a ladder, but im re-reading and that’s not the case. Thanks!

[martin3141]

I think it’s a good observation though, and playing Atari from the other side makes sense to me, before protecting against the cut.

[benjito]

Looks like it also becomes feasible later in the game, when black has more stones in the area

[martin3141]

I believe white can capture

Spoiler

[benjito]

Oh wow, that’s right, I keep misreading these holes!

So why does white ignore? To me it seems like white can put a good deal of pressure on black if white controls that strait (but probably I’m just overvaluing it)

[martin3141]

The holes make it so our previously learned pattern recognition is sometimes wrong. So it’s easy to miss this kind of sequence, which wouldn’t work on a normal board - especially under time pressure.

[Tschej]

Indeed I didnt see that move 3 works. At least Valens neither xp

As for the atari before connecting, you have to explain. I cant seem to understand rn.

[martin3141]

I was thinking of something like this:

[Tschej]

Ohh, thats what you meant with ‘the other side’
Yes, that makes sense.

[martin3141]

Let’s move on to round 3.
Unfortunately I did not hear from @doh , so I’ve dropped them for now. But as always I’m happy to re-add for future rounds, as long as there is interest to play.
The game Atorrante - DoubleU is also a no-result (which I’m entering as a tie), but both players expressed that they want to continue (please feel free to play your round 2 game anyway).

@Sadaharu and @Senffarbe will also play starting this round, welcome!

Walllist

Pairings (Round 3)

[martin3141]

Oh I almost forgot, lets use a board with 5 new random holes:

with bitmap

[
[3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3],
[3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3],
[3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3],
[3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3],
[3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3],
[3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3],
[3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3],
[3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3],
[3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3],
[3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3],
[3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3],
[3,3,0,3,3,3,3,3,3,0,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3],
[3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3],
[3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3],
[3,3,3,3,3,3,0,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3],
[3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3],
[3,3,3,3,3,3,0,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,0,3,3,3,3],
[3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3],
[3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3]
]

Looks like play in the lower half will be quite funky

[Jon_Ko]

There’s an intersection with two liberties between those two holes, right? G4!

[martin3141]

Yes

[benjito]

G4 is the new Tengen

And darn, I was just getting used to 19x20

[Atorrante]

okay, I sent a renewed link to @Feijoa .

so sooner or later we will play.

[martin3141]

@fuseki3 has told me that they want to participate again - welcome back!
Since we have a Bye, I will pair them with @benjito - all other round 3 pairings are unchanged.

Walllist

Pairings