Go Fighting Strategies #1

[Music] [Music] hi everyone my name's Stephanie and welcome to our go fighting strategy series in this video I'm going to show you the five most interesting fighting situations in my students games so in go games we have pretty much we have a three stage opening making and inking so in the opening we take most important places so that we can develop our territory in the mid game so endgame is pretty much you just secure your all of your territory and before we start counting so in the making everything is about fight so how can we win a fight or how can we get ahead in a fighting situation and here he comes the reading skill so what is the reading skill reading skill is how many moves you are able to see or how many moves your you're able to predict another fighting situation so why don't we get started with thirty to twenty q question so this is the this is the game so now is black to play so both black and away are pretty much controlling the same amount of territory on the board White has two huge territory on the on the top on on the right and black has a small territory on the raid and some territory on the left so both players are actually fighting very serious on the bottom area here as you can see so what happened is black now is a little bit stronger than white group right here this black group is just around a little bit stronger than the white group right here so black played a Kasumi and trying blackens trying to enclose that's the entire group so if white pushes here and black it can honey on the top so it seems very hard for a weight to get out so what white was thinking is hey I have a center here so that I can get two stones and black needs to connect these four stones otherwise I can cut here and after these four stones are dead the two groups are connected already so I don't have to worry about the love and death anymore so black connects here and white jumped out so now we can see this variation it's much better than the previous one I just showed you but the question is both players didn't realize the life and death in the bottom area here is is actually it's not a life for white and so both players didn't didn't play anything until the game ends so both of them thought this is a life because if if black and wedges here white can connect and black connects no it's a band three but it's it's whites turn so I can take the vitamin to make it life if it black Ataris inside and white can connect and now we can see that's a bent for it's already a live shape as well so if black and reduced eye space from the outside and what now can connect so that's also a bent for so how is this dead how is how is able to kill this group so the vital point for black is right here so it looks very strange I just put a one random live inside of whites shape so how does that work if white connects on the top now we can't use the watch here and connect back now you can't see black I already took the letter point and that's not bent three anymore if white connects to the top since I already have one stone in the bent for I can add another stone to take both vital points in a bit for that's dead so that doesn't work for wait so if what thinks okay I'm gonna spend my eye space by playing here so that I can have a five spaces inside and now you can see there is a double Atari here so if what if black is able to see this move and it killed its group by the way of course black is going to lead the whole board that's that's at least the 30 points but unfortunately both wears didn't see that move alright so now let's look at the next example now let's look at an example for 19 to 10 Q players alright so this is the this is the game and now which is positive few seconds free to analyze the whole board situation right now and I will be standing here I will make sure I'm not blocking the board is one of the common said sometimes I block the board so this time I will make sure you have enough space to see the board see I do read the comments all right so is it just territory game and because pretty much when we finish the game already and it's more like an end game at this moment but the question is it's not actually endgame the true dragons the two dragons in the middle are fighting against each other black is surrounded and what is it surrounded so for this black dragon right here black doesn't even have one eye so if black is not able to kill this wait screw up here there's a whole dragon is dead so let's look at what situation White has a eye on the bottom right here and a half I Patricia I on the top right here and another half eye on the bottom so logically we can kill this group anymore right we have one eye for sure and two half eyes if you take one and I'm gonna fix the top one if you destroy the top one and I'm gonna make form the eye on the bottom so how is it possible now black has a tesuji so that you can you can destroy eye in center so that you can you can destroy the second nine alright so where is the Tassili move is right here you want to throw in first and avoid captures now when you push here that's a sin tape because if weight makes the eye on the top you can kill the eye on the bottom so white connects on the bottom you can kill the eye on the top so my next question is after the throwing move here is this dead so is white dead answer is no white actually has a tattoo G as well to create a cold right here so whoever is going to win this Co well when the skin because if white is able to win this code this whole group is a life that means black is dead so if if black wants this curl and then wait doesn't have a two eyes and obviously white doesn't have enough Liberty to fight against the black dragon here so that's a fine example for 19 to the Pankiw players now let's look at the next one the next example is buying nine to one two players alright so this is the game so what happened in the game is like this so at this moment wait is White's turn and white thinks this is sente so white played a kicking move there right there and after black took a few seconds a few minutes to think about that life-and-death situation and black decided to tanuki and then white clapped here black descend and then white-hot endless hop so extending on the top in this situation doesn't work because black only has one eye over here and there's no eye on the bottom even though there are some sent ace but black doesn't have enough space to to make another real line so in the actual game black decided to just sit right there and then white honey on the top so at this moment pretty much you will think these two stones are dead how is black able to so there's no stone right here and how is black able to make a life then if I cut on the top and Dwight will Atari on the bottom so there's no more high space and then there's a to Susie for black so that it you will see the second eye so is the tattoo D it's right here so this is what black played in the actual game so after this Kasumi and if wait atari is here so the idea behind this myth is black wants to sacrifice these two stones so that lack of what happened to sente right here and then now we're able to make the second eye on the bottom and then you probably will have a question now whatever I don't kill these two stones what if I just destroy the eye right here and then since I have a stone right here and then when a cut here now I'm making a net of the stone so this is self Atari and black is able to capture the two stones so if white Atari on the right on the outside the black can connect and then there's another eye right here so destroying the eye space right here doesn't work and then what if wait just connect the stone back if black descend here I can take this vaj and then make this eye to a full side but the question is now when black connects here is also a sente so if white Hana here and then after black cuts here this is still a net because if black and what wants to go here that's a self Letarte V so no matter where what goes either on the top connecting here or killed these two stones a black is always able to make the eye on the bottom right here so that's the example 491 Q players now let's look at the next example now let's look at the next example so this is a game so why don't we analyze the whole board situation first so that you will understand better why the next move is very important so it's blacks turn now and white has a not big moil but it's very quite big moil on the bottom right corner and very sell it and then big territory on the left and some points on the top so what black has is the turret or on the left this is undecided yet so it if black is able to get some moves around here I'd say if I play attachment move here since this group is not strong yet then I'm able to get some sent ace and then expand my territory on the upper right corner and then I have some point on the bottom so if black is able to get a sent a right now and expand the territory on the on the top and black is still able to fight against White's territory but the question in this game is is that group alive where black needs to use actual move to make a life so in the actual game black decided to play a play at remove to make a life but is that necessary eventually this game black lost this game is because the next move because this is not necessary this group is already alive so let's see if I played this move right here and then white well probably played this move that's the only move and it's impossible to kill this group because if I already have two already kill the two stones on the top so if weight reduced the eyes face on the bottom it won't work this black now Atari is in connects and I'll have some ice base on the top and as a my space in the bottom so the only way to kill this black verb is to destroy all the eye space inside right here so that's the only move white can and try to kill this group but it looks like this is very very important move and it looks like his value point because this move is looking for pulling these two stones out and also descending on the bottom so that of white is able to connect it on the lap and connect the on the right so if black does simply captured these two stones white can't descend and I have a lot of liberties I have a five liberties so if black a block on the right now I'm able to connect it from left so if black the blocks on the left then I can connect it from right so now black probably will have a question and then I will just simply block then there's no afraid to connect back that's don't but the question is now white is able to pull the stone out and if I simply Atari on the on the top and the three stones is dead I only have a one Liberty left so this becomes two all itself Atari that doesn't work either if I capture these two this stone and get one more Liberty but it's still not enough to fight against this group so how can we make this group alive then black needs to test ug so where is the tesuji is right here so this move is not only preventing white connecting from bottom but also is preventing white pulling these two stones out so if white pulls these two stones out then I can Atari here and make this group to a ladder so now I have a five spaces of five stones and I have a five spaces of course that's alive and then you probably will ask a question what if I block here and I'm looking for the connecting move here and Atari here to make you walk into a connect and die but the question is after I have that stone here I'm able to reduce one of White's liberties right here so now white only has 3 liberties compared with this situation I have a five so if white only has two liberties left and use the connecting moves on the bottom and then black is able to throw in and Atari on the top now you can see white actually is not able to save the three stones so I have one eye on the top and at the second eye on the bottom so this group is alive but unfortunately black didn't see this tissue this mr. gene moved to make this group of life so blackness decided to use actually move to block here and white is able to destroy all the potentials and territory on the upper right corner and eventually black lost this game so see the sensei is very important in the mid game so please do read some sequences when you're especially wearing a very serious fighting situation okay so now let's look at next example all right now let's look at the last a fighting example so this is the game is it complicated it is it looks it looks very complicated to me when I was first starting to looking at this game all right so why don't we analyze this game first so that we we know what's going on on the board so black has some territory on the bottom and there's some AG's in the corner wait is it still able to make a KO in the corner by making the Tiger's mouth but black has a huge territory on the left so white has a the entire side was the two corners to compete against the terror on the left so the three grooves in the center a still fighting the five stones and the black group over here and the huge or the dragon on the bottom so right now black actually has a winning move so let's see what happened in the actual game so this group is not alive yet so there's some eye space on the bottom but it's not enough to make this whole group real-life so but let me show you some wrong variations first because they're somehow weaknesses here and come here and kill kill this white stone might be the first intrusion for on four for all of us but if we leave we use one more move here and then we have to have to use a goat a and the white is able to make a the second eye on the left there's a one eye on the top so Atari and capture is not working and in actual game black played a knight's move here has to reduce all the eye space from the left this is a good move but in this situation it doesn't work because white now is able to descend on the right side and create more eye space right here but you probably have a question what if I played this move and then why can honey on the bottom and black Ataris it looks like a we're reducing y space right we're hoping Y connect so that will come target and kill this bed 3 but what it has a tournament on the top and so that what can create a connection die for black so that this entire group is dead and then what is a lot so attachment move here doesn't work how about the peep here if white connects on the top black connects back and then there's no second die on the bottom but white can block after black a purchase here why can't use this sente and connect it on top and now it is a double life so double love is custody red life so that move doesn't work either if what pushes here white can still walk that's the same result as the first one that shows you there's a connect it and die so there's no way for black to kill white because that is the mistake so where is the tetsuji to kill this entire group and where is the winning move the winning move is right here Atari on the bottom so sometimes it would call this move these kind of moves this kind of moves as a blind move because it's not that to see at and also that's it doesn't do anything right on and now you probably have another question since black and red used to ice based on the right then whatever white now expand ice with on the left so if we just simply capture in a stone that would be the same variation as the first one I showed you that doesn't work either so black now needs to use the second tsuki which is peep at Tiger's mouth so in white blocks here simply just block here and then black can pull that stone back and then even though I can kill these two stones but it doesn't matter because lucky and just simply sacrifice these two stones and kill oops sorry there's no stone right here even though there's no stone here the score was still dead because the bottom line is still a full side so does it mean after the peep here the whole group is dead the answer is no white still have a good move to make the whole group to a coat which is attachment move here I will say or extending move here and black now needs to pull this don't back otherwise then this group is alive so I can use to pull the stone back and then now what is able to Atari here and make a coat if what blocka connects why can't block here that's a still coat but the reason why this is a winning move is because that's a picnic Oh or that's in other words that's a freak over for black that means black can use any two free moves to kill the group in the center so let's say even would just put the two stones right here and then kill this entire white group in the center and of course black is gonna win but if unfortunately in the actual game blocked it and see them of Atari on the bottom and the beep the first line so the final result is white was able to live on the bottom alright that's pretty much the five most interesting fighting examples that are finding January if you liked this video don't forget to give me thumbs up if you have any any questions you can leave the comments below I do read your comments or you can have other questions so you can go to a website or follow us on Twitter Facebook page one more thing before you leave make sure you're gonna - in next Monday because you're gonna see the vast movement in February my name is Stephanie and I will see you next time [Music]

Channel: NYIG_Go

Views: 45,751

Rating: 4.9482312 out of 5

Keywords: Go, Weiqi, Baduk, Igo, 圍棋, 바둑, 囲碁

Id: 5qyLPWIMV78

Length: 23min 54sec (1434 seconds)

Published: Mon Feb 25 2019