Re: Pente Challenge- How to answer a open 3 by not blocking it
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Aug 20, 2010, 1:42 AM
Here's a fairly rare one which doesn't seem to have made it onto the list yet, as far as I can tell- extend two blocked threes to tesseras which when they are blocked will allow a double keystone pair capture of the blocking stones. I've mostly seen it as a way for P1 to win certain hammer type formations- such as in this game-
but a similar potential threat existed in the game Karlw and I just finished up at Brainking, a hammer type formation on diagonals-
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Re: Pente Challenge- How to answer a open 3 by not blocking it
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Apr 19, 2020, 7:30 PM
I think it's comparatively rare to see the ignoring of a tria in a live game by a player who isn't a red, so I thought I'd share this old game by mike321, at move 11 using an extension + capture to create a superior threat of making a four by two caps across the tria.
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Re: Pente Challenge- How to answer a open 3 by not blocking it
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Apr 12, 2023, 2:47 PM
Nice move by ned indeed.
Another one, variation of what karl said-- "make it so any tessera extension he makes can be capped, opening up a blocked tessera (rare)"
Changed to
make it so any tessera extension he makes can be capped, leading to a win by captures. Meaning, you dont have current cap threat on the 3, but would regardless of which way it gets extended
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Re: Pente Challenge- How to answer a open 3 by not blocking it
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Apr 16, 2023, 11:29 PM
look at nosovs' 11th move. P13. I can not make a solid 4, because nosovs will get a double capture from it. so im left with either make an extended 4 or block his 3. a devastating move by nosovs.
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