Game: haijinx vs. watsu 03/13/2019
Posted:
Mar 13, 2019, 9:43 PM
This was a study game haijinx and I played based on an old novelty P1 move found by up2ng in an analysis game against Rollie Tesh. Dmitri King and I studied this variant for an hour or two one day as it applied to Boat Pente, but somehow I don't have notes on his creative P2 play which forced me to think outside the box a bit to find a Pente win - which obviously to us wasn't going to work for boat Pente. So, haijinx and I played this one out as mostly a real time game, but I initially played a (likely) losing move of 17. ... N8 (18. L9) before requesting an undo and time to study the board. Eventually, I thought L9 was winning, only to look at the board after I made the move and think he could get 5 pairs on me with an O10 capture! Boat Pente real time is mighty tough to analyse, at least for me, anyway.
Retired from rated TB Pente, but still playing live and TB variants
