Wednesday, February 11, 2015

Super Fun Game!

He Who Laughs came over on Monday, and we played this super-fun game. He was white.

18 - I made an empty net, just to make sure he couldn't kill the four black stones.
44 - It hurt me to make that shape, and I said as much. I've come a long way since the last time I played against He Who Laughs.
45 - Playing in the elephant's eye. Asking move. So, which direction do you want? I chose the wall side.
57 - This was a dirty trick. He even said something like "oh, well at least I can still make eyes," and I totally fell for it.
72 - Thought about connecting the wall of five. Took a gamble on a tenuki. That was a mistake.
84 - Creating a bamboo joint would have been a stronger move, to keep white from creeping up.
104 - Really passive, but I wanted a strong defense of the corner.
130 - He called that move sneaky, but clearly it wasn't sneaky enough or he wouldn't have seen what I was up to.
131 - Took the threat out of my sneaky move by putting my two black stones in atari.
138 - I really wanted to find a way to win back that corner, but I didn't know how yet.
143 - We had it check the score, which, if I remember correctly, was how He Who Laughs became aware that that group of mine was kill-able, since the AI was counting them all as prisoners.
144 - Big mistake. Didn't look at the board carefully or long enough to see what He Who Laughs was up to.
145 - With that group gone, the whole lower left corner is looking pretty hopeless. At this point, I'm fairly certain that mistake cost me the game, and I'm looking to reinforce what I have.
166 - Still going after that corner. There has to be a way, right?!
168 - Turns out, yes. Yes, there is a way.
175 - And I won by 1/2 point. Huzzah!