Guess Who Won (7)
Thursday, March 6th, 2008Tang Yi (left) was paired next against Lee Hanjin from Korea in Jeongganjang Cup.
Tang won by 7.5 points. Here is the beginning of the game:
It’s interesting to see:
- the variation in the lower left: White prefers to build a thick position in gote with 14 and 16 nowadays instead of taking sente with 14 to the left of 9 and leaving bad aji behind.
- how patient Black is with 33 (in most pro games I’ve seen Black attacks at 34 instead)
- how Black plays 43 to “threaten to build a big go threat”: it’s not in itself a ko threat since the ko on the lower side hasn’t started yet, but if White responds to 43 in the upper left corner, Black can start the ko next and then she’ll have a clear ko-threat in the upper left.
Tang Yi is playing Yashiro Kumiko of Japan next.
