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Liu Xing keep alive in final of Changqi Cup
Filed Under (Changqi Cup) by Tomasz Ślązok on 17-01-2008
Tagged Under : Gu Li, Liu Xing
Today Liu Xing 7p beat Gu Li 9p and equalize the result, so the deciding game will be tomorrow. Today Gu Li 9p was black. In first joseki Gu choose very rare variant and after White 24 he need to invade into white moyo. In middle of the game Gu Li feel very comfortable but Liu don’t start any unnecessary fights and play very solid. After white 51 black was very busy. Gu Li made a live in upper left corner but his group in center get weaker and weaker.
After white 64 black position was very bad but Gu found great tesuji at black 2 on Diagram below:
Black 2 is standard tesuji from books about attack and defense. After black 8 white group below is under attack so Liu need to play 11 to link his stone but Gu Li 9p immediately cut black 14. The ladder is unfavorable for white so he need to play something to made a shape in center . Black group is very big so semeai for white is out of question. After 17 white position seems to be solid buy Gu find another great cutting tesuji After 24 the result is ko. Liu won this ko but he was forced to give up two stones (1 and 5 from diagram)
In yose Gu show one great move (black 1) but thanks to big komi in Chinese rules Liu was leading by very small margin. In the end Gu resign after 302 moves. The last game of this final will be tomorrow 
SGF of this game you can find at Go News
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szkoda ze Gu tak poszlo
mam nadzieje ze jutro mu lepiej pojdzie :< pewnie dlatego jak to lesio mowil ostatnio "czekalem kiedy podda", no i pech :(
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