:: Igo Hatsuyôron 120 (2017)

Harry's Trade – A Tribute to AlphaGo (2017)

An Unbelievable Tenuki

We chose to insert Black's atari at White's four -stones in the hanezeki immediately after Yamada Shinji's tsuke in the top left corner.
Even though Black's move threatens to resolve the hanezeki, it is nevertheless no absolute sente!

Harry found that White can savely tenuki, and play the hane in the upper left corner, instead.
Black is unable to answer locally, because White will take sente in the upper left corner to return to the course of Our Solution with connecting at in the hanezeki, having gained sufficient points in the upper left corner to turn the game in her favour.

Black has to capture at .

Connecting the hanezeki's tail with a move at instead will be three points worse, losing him the game.

White kills Black's upper right corner.

Capturing the hanezeki's tail with a move at instead will result in the same final score, and so is miai for White.

Black inserts the atari at at the left before connecting the tail with .
White will continue the endgame with her sente moves of and , before connecting at in the upper right.

Black will win the game by two points.

White gained one point – compared to Our Solution – by discovering an unbelievable tenuki.

Copyright © 2017 Thomas Redecker.

Design by Jan van Rongen, modified by Thomas Redecker.

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