On 8, Aug 2008, at 7:29 AM, Eric Boesch wrote:
On Fri, Aug 8, 2008 at 8:04 AM, Mark Boon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
First of all, congratulations to the MoGo team.
Ditto!
Absolutely an amazing achievement!
Where I do differ in opinion from most is the remarks from the pro.
He
played too fast and made a few terrible mistakes at crucial points.
He said
that MoGo winning the lower-right corner was 5-dan level play but I
strongly
disagree. It was good play, probably dan-level, but the kicker was
that the
mistake by the pro was also almost sub dan level.
If it was an outright blunder then it was definitely sub-dan level. I
just don't know if that's the case.
In discussion one person said "So it was an overplay on your part?" His
answer was "With 9 stones I must make overplays." From the nature of
what was said after that it is clear that Mr Kim knew how to live in the
corner, but chose a variation that he did not think the computer would
answer so well that would prevent him from getting sealed into the
corner.
Maybe (as an alternative to the "misclick" theory, which would be my
other top candidate) Myung Wan
I mentioned the misclick theory in the chat and he was emphatic that
there was no misclick.
deliberately tested Mogo for a blunder
He showed us the kind of responses he expected, which he said were
1-Dan level.
after Mogo played a very nice squeeze. Myung Wan was disrespecting his
opponent to even try to see if r1 would work (but maybe he wanted to
see just in case Mogo was that dumb, and he wanted to find out early
in the game so he would know how many points he needed to make
elsewhere), but s1 is not great either because if Myung saves his
bottom chain, then as in the variation starting with move 52 in the
attached SGF, Myung is stuck in the corner after black plays s7. It is
hard to imagine that the lower right side is worth losing the corner,
but maybe the difference is small.
To me, r2 looks very good. What do you stronger players think? (I'm
only 1 kyu.)
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