What's the greatest capture differential you've ever had in a game you still lost? Or vice versa

As the title suggests, I’d love to see some games involving huge sacrifices and “sacrifices”, from amateurs, pros or yourself on OGS.

“Big groups never die.” Who doesn’t love to see big dragons get captured? But it may be even better to see the comeback/clever sacrifice!

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what great post i to would love to see a comeback move played to save the game please anyone post some game for us to see

As for vice versa … If the biggest “capture differential” represents how many more of my stones that my opponent captured before I lost, well, that describes most of my games. :wink:

As a newbie, I’ll come back to report when the situation begins to change. :vulcan_salute:

So, I watch a lot of games on OGS, and I save some really interesting ones to my SGF library for future study. As such, none of these games are mine, but they fit the brief of this thread. For me, these were interesting not only because of some major captures, but because the winrate switched drastically from one to the other late in the game - so they are all cases where someone was able to snatch victory from the jaws of defeat

For instance, in this game, White had a comfortable 18-20 point lead, until they made a -133 point mistake at Move 244

In this game, Black was leading by 124+ points in midgame, but then White was able to turn it around at Move 186, take the lead by 27+ points, and Black resigned

In this game, White was hanging on to a tenuous 5+ point lead through most of the game, but just ended up with too much bad aji in the endgame, and Black was able to turn it around with some shrewd play starting at Move 241

Enjoy!

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Couldn’t resist posting one more - so, on the topic of “big dragons never die” - I saw this Cho Chikun pro game on a Dwyrin real board YT playthrough, and I found it fascinating. Both players juggled their weak groups very well, right up until the end when Cho Chikun just devastated the big group which started on the left side, and then fought all the way over to the right edge. White resigned at Move 185, but OGS score estimator guesses Black leads by 148.7 points

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I didn’t keep track of big captures in my games, so this one is not the most spectacular. I started badly as black

but managed to kill many stones afterwards, so White resigned at this point:

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