BLACK WHITE the next move in order to balance the advantage gained by his adversary; this is something like castling in Chess. moves slowly from a corner out over the board, and one side of the board is entirely filled with stones, while the other is completely empty. This is a sure sign of bad play. In the beginning the good players spread their stones over the board as much as possible, and avoid close conAicts. 9. E 4. W. C7 10. C 10. If White did not occupy this point, we might have the following continuation: B. C 10 W. E 7 and Black has the advantage, because White's stones at C 7-E 7 can only get one “Me” on the edge of the board, and later on must seek a connection with some other group. By constantly harassing such endangered groups territory is often obtained. 12. C 5. White sees that Black plays too carefully, and therefore challenges him with a bold but premature attack that gives the whole game its character. 14. C 6. 16. D 6. 18. E 7. 20. H 3 3. As soon as Black answers this move, White will take territory on the right or left of H 3. 21. G 2. Is played very care- 22. M 3. Two stones which mufully. K3 would probably have tually support each other on the been better. In that case White margin of the board and form a would either have played H 5 in position cannot be separated by order to save H 3, whereupon more than two spaces; for instance, B. F7 W. E 8 R 13-R 16. In that case the adB. K 5 versary cannot cut one off from the would have followed, or White other. (Korschelt here inserts conwould have answered at K 4. tinuations similar to what we have shown in a preceding chapter.) Therefore, White's twentieth and twenty-second moves are merely intended to fill territory that would otherwise fall to Black, and are not intended to form a new group. 23. H 2. The only correct an- 24. M 5. White seeks to form a swer would have been K 3, which connection with No. 6, which Black would have separated White's twen- frustrates by his twenty-fifth move. tieth and twenty-second stones. It is of the greatest importance to prevent the union of groups which the adversary has formed on the margin, in order that they may remain weak, and require continuous defense. The player who has the “Sente” most of the time will generally be the victor. 25. 06. 26. Q9. Is very necessary in order not to surrender the entire right side to Black. 27. K 17. All good players agree 28. H 17. This move has the that 27 should not have been effect of abandoning stone No. 4 at played at K 17, but at L 17. This P 17. After Black's twenty-ninth is difficult to understand because at N 17, No. 4 could still K 17 can be supported from both but giving escape by means of P 15, move to 29. N 17. Black White that it may afterward aid in sur- 30. F 7. 32. K 3. It might have been better to have played at G 8. Then if Black replied at H 7, White could play at C 10, and the white territory in the neighborhood of line D would be very large. Certainly in that case H 3 would have been Since 32 K 3 is purely defensive, Black gets the attack, and appreciably reduces the white territory in the neighborhood of line D. 33. D 8. 34. D 7. 35. DI. * 36. Cu. 37. D 12. 38. C 12. 39. D 13 40. C 13 41. G 9. 42. G 6. If this move had not divided the black groups, Black would have become too powerful. > 1 not 43. H 7. was 44. E 9. This connects the two parts of the White position, which connection threatened by Black's thirty-third stone. Moreover, the “Sente" remains with White, because Black cannot allow his position to be broken into through F 10. 46. Q 14. 48. R 17 50. Q 16. * 52. RII. The beginner will wonder that 52 Q 15 did not follow 51 R 15. This is because 53 R 1054 R 9 would result, and White would be at a disadvantage. The moves 46-52 are part of a deeply thought-out plan on the part of White. Black could afford to ignore No. 4 as long as it stood alone. Thereupon White increases it by Nos. 48 and 50, and Black must accept the sacrifice, because otherwise Nos. 27-29 are threatened. By this sacrifice White gets the territory around No. 27, and also has an opportunity of increasing his position on line Q by his fifty-second move. 54. M 16. On the fifty-third move Black proceeds with the capture of Nos. 4, 48, and 50, while White on his fifty-fourth move hems in No. 27. 56. M 17 S 5 to his fifty-sixth and fifty-eighth 58. M 18. 60. J 17. 61. J 16. 62. K 18. 63. E 16. 64. D 16. 65. G 17. 66. K 16. 67. P 16. This is necessary to 68. K 15. avoid the following continuation: W. P 16,0 15, N 16, O 14 B. P 15, N 15, O 17, P 18 and White has the advantage. 69. D 14. 70. C 14. 71. R 5. 72. R 6. as follows: W. S 5, S4 B. S 5, S6, S8, R8, Q8 W. E 15, S 7, T7, R 7 the accom |