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Recently I play at iLMM. Here I want show you my games and show that everyone should review their games.

Black: higaki94

White: Nexik

Result: B+T.

Diagram 1

Opening was good for white but very quickly I play very stupid moves :).

Black  5 and 9 working very well with black 3.

White must play 14 because Variation 1 is very painful.

Variation 1

Black 15 is very bad. Kakari in empty corner is much better.

Variation 2

Black 1-7 build nice position on right side.

Variation 3

Maybe black didn’t like to be forced after white 1 in Variation 3. Anyway black position is really good

A and B are miai. Black has also nice attack move at D

Wariant 4

White can also try some fight in Variation 4 but again the result is really bad for him.

Diagram 2

Unfortunately white play even worse  move – white 20. Instead…

Variation 5

White 1 on Variation 5 is very good. Situation is reversed compare to Diagram. Next white A is sente because of severe invasion at B.

Diagram 3

Exchange 32-33 show again that triangle stone is bad move.

Black play on left side is slack. With black 41 he should play at B and start fight in his moyo.

Diagram 4

Black 45 is really bad. White connected and two white stone still create some bad aji.

Diagram 5

White 66 is probe before start fight on bottom. Black answer very aggressively but after white 72 situation is unclear.

Diagram 6

In complicated fight white capture black on upper side. Black get nice moyo in center, but situation looks little better for white.

Diagram 7

In early yose black made big mistake. Black 129 must be at 130.

After big capture white is leading with very big margin. Unfortunately I lost by time, because I was unable to make a move.

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Hello again, this is Whiteboard Sunday #5. We’re slowly coming to the end of our topic — the “First Joseki”. There are many more variations, but soon let’s move on to something else. What will it be? You can ask for joseki, openings, direction of play or any area where you’d like to be more comfortable.

Dan players may not learn as much from this column, but kyu players should benefit. In other words, this is for you kyu! Please leave your requests in the comment section below the article.

Diagram 1 — 4th line

This time I want to change a little basic shape in our “first joseki”. Here black 3 is played on the 4th line instead of the 3rd line. What is the basic difference between moves on the 3rd and 4th lines?

1. Black has a weak spot at A. Black’s territory is open. White can play at A and aim to break into black’s corner. Goodbye territory.
2. When the territory is open, expanding it is much easier. Black can play a big extension at B and still have solid shape.
3. When one has a stone on 4th line, escape to the center is much easier. That is why black doesn’t fear white’s move at A.

Diagram 2 — Basic Shape

OK, armed with some basic knowledge about the difference between the 3rd and 4th lines, it’s time to look at our diagram for today’s Whiteboard Sunday. Diagram 2 shows a situation which happens a lot in real games. I added two white stones in the upper left corner to make the white invasion more severe.

If you manage to master this situation from Diagram 2, then the invasion at 1 won’t be a burden to you anymore. Let’s examine what black can do.

Diagram 3 — Greed

Black can try to play a severe-looking move at 1 in Diagram 3. At first this looks like a tesuji. Unfortunately, white won’t fight like hell when he can just build life on the side. After white 8, black has lost all territory on the upper side and leaves a weakness at A.

If only black could use the wall efficiently! But the two white stones in the upper left corner are reducing black’s thickness to zero. This variation is a disaster for black.

Diagram 4 — Tsuke

Black can also play the most natural and most popular move. Black’s tsuke — contact play — seals in the white group. White has 3 standard responses: A, B and C. Let’s start with white A.

Diagram 5 — Hane

A famous baduk proverb says “Respond to an attachment with a hane”. In this situation, hane is an unexpectedly bad move :( Black’s shape only gets thicker.

Diagram 6 — Extend

Another very common answer by kyu players is the extension to 1 in Diagram 6. The purpose of this move is to make life on the side without a fight. Unfortunately, black has a nice tesuji. Double hane at 4 is a sacrifice tesuji.

Black defends his territory, and white gets a ponnuki on the second line. The real value of the ponnuki is very small; the two white stones in the upper left corner are too close to it. White has failed again.

Diagram 7 — Wedge

White 1 in Diagram 7 is an actual tesuji. This move is very strong. Of course, there is some drawback with this move. White needs the ladder to be favorable…

Diagram 8 — Ladder

If white can get a good result, it’s all thanks to the ladder. If the ladder is good for black, white will get a very bad result.

Diagram 9 — Variation

Black can try to play the atari at 1 in Diagram 9 instead of connecting with 3 in Diagram 8. This variation also gives white a chance to capture one black stone. This situation looks almost the same, but it isn’t…

Diagram 10 — Iron wall

White gets a lot of forcing moves and builds the almighty iron wall. This is a very bad result for black. Black 1 in Diagram 8 is only possible if black is good in the ladder.

Diagram 11 — Black only choice

When the ladder is good for white, the only good answer to the wedge at Diagram 8 is the atari from the outside in Diagram 11. This and the following moves will be the topic of the next Whiteboard Sunday.

Diagram 12 — Black to play

Like always, I have problem for you. This problem looks difficult but it should be very easy ;p (If the problems are too hard, please let me know in a comment or message).

I want to publish problems from real games. Sometimes they may not be as easy, but they are worth the time to study them.

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Hi everyone, we’re in the 4th edition of Whiteboard Sunday. Last month I started this new column on Haengma — but I don’t want to publish only short lectures on how to play baduk. I want to publish baduk book reviews and tournament/event reports. For this reason, I want you to join the Haengma team. You can help me build this website! I’m open to any ideas. If you are interested, please leave a comment or send me an email.

Diagram 1 — Endgame perspective

Now let’s get back to joseki. In the last articles, I discussed weak and strong points of this “first joseki”. I mainly looked at the situation from a middle game perspective, when the strength of the group is the most important thing.

Today I want to discuss the same shape, but from an endgame perspective. Let’s assume that both the white and black groups are alive. How many points is the move in Diagram 1 worth?

Diagram 2 — Simple endgame

We’ll start from the easiest variation. If black starts first white will defend with 2. Now white has 7 points and black 9 points. The key is to understand that black’s hane at T16 is gote and white T17 is sente. It’s very likely that players will play: white T17 – black T18 – white T16 – black S18.

Diagram 3 — Huge move

Let’s go back to the first Diagram. White 1 is sente. White not only shrinks black’s territory, but also extends his own. Now white has 9 points of territory and black has only 5.

The difference between this and Diagram 2 takes a little calculation. White’s territory is increased by 2 points, and black loses 4 points. Add those together, and white gets 6 points in sente. And because this is sente it’s twice as valuable. The move itself is really worth 12 points.

Diagram 4 — White Gote

Of course, white’s move from the last diagram is not always sente. Sometimes it’s gote. How can we judge whether it’s sente or gote? Let’s calculate how many points we would get if opponent played tennuki.

White would play the sequence 1-5 in Diagram 4. This time the black territory disappears, and white builds a huge territory worth 12 points. In a normal situation where black has some points in the upper side, white would get one more point at S19, because Q14 would be sente for white. In Diagram 4 we can’t count S19 as a point :(

By comparing this situation to Diagram 3, we get a difference of 8 points. This is made in the second move, so we need to divide its value by 2 and add it to our first move. Now we have 6 + 4 = 10 points in gote. More calculations are necessary to see how many points black can get if white plays tenuki after black 1 in Diagram 2.

Diagram 4 — Black Gote

Black captures one stone and increases his score by 5 points. In the meantime, white lost all his points because T14 is now black sente. The difference is 12 points. It’s again in the second move so we divide the result by 2 and get 6 points.

We can add all these results and get a final value of the move from Diagram 1. Diagrams 2 and 3 give us 6 points in sente, so 12 points in total. Diagrams 4 and 5 give us 5 points and 6 points. So we have: 6 + 5 + 6 = 17 points in gote.

Conclusion: If there is no other move bigger than 17 points, the move from Diagram 1 is worth 12 points (6 points in sente). If there is, then it’s worth only 17 points in gote.

Diagram 4 — Black to play

At the end of this short Whiteboard Sunday, I give you a real game tsumego. This shape happens really often in high handicap games after the tsuke-nobi joseki.

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Welcome to the 3rd edition of Whiteboard Sunday. You didn’t write in the comment section what you wanted to see next, so I’ll continue analyzing the first joseki in the next few articles. This joseki is one of the most often played, so mastering it, will give you an advantage in real games.

Diagram 1 — Basic Situation

Last time I added few black stones and discussed black follow-ups. It’s time to look at white follow-ups. For this I will add one white stone to the basic diagram from a week ago. The topic of this article is Diagram 1.

Diagram 2 — Placement Tesuji

If black doesn’t defend the corner, white can attack it very severely. White 1 is basic move to shrink black’s eye space. Next white 3 is a tesuji. Black is in big trouble. What can he do?

Diagram 3 — Basic Answer

The first thing that comes to mind is connecting to black 1. Unfortunately thanks to the marked stone, white can connect very easily. The outcome is very bad for black. There must be another way to handle the situation.

Diagram 4 — Black Tesuji

Black 1 and 3 are tesujis to handle the situation. This way the white attack is not so severe. It is important to descend with black 3 and not at T18. The next diagram will show why.

Diagram 5 — Greed

If white blindly tried to capture one black stone, he would be trapped after black 6 in Diagram 5. As you can see black 3 from the previous diagram is important for black 5 at Diagram 5 to work. Of course white won’t play this way.

Diagram 6 — White success

Instead of white 3 from the last diagram, he will play the hane. This way the outcome is decided by the ladder at A. If the ladder is good for white, then black can’t defend two points (A and B) at the same time. In such a situation black 2 from Diagram 2 is mistake.

Diagram 7 — Black choice

If the ladder from Diagram 6 is bad, black can play the exchange of B for C, or jump to D instead. The B-C exchange is pure and simple, but the jump to D needs more study.

Diagram 8 — White disaster

Thanks to the marked stone, the ladder at A doesn’t work. The result is very bad for white. This diagram closes this week’s topic. Next I will discuss this joseki from a territorial perspective.

Diagram 9 — Black to play

Of course, there is also a problem for you to solve. Like always it’s black turn to play.

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This week ended very quickly and now it’s time for the 2nd Whiteboard Sunday. After the first edition a few peope wrote that they like the joseki explanation. I decided to continue this topic and today I want show another follow-up to the last joseki.

Diagram 1 — Extra stones

This week I’ll discuss a tricky little follow-up. The main topic for this post is Diagram 1. I added some black stones to the situation from last Whiteboard Sunday. The question is: “Can black find a better follow-up that uses these extra stones?”

Diagram 2 — Tesuji

The answer is black 1. This tesuji gives black a local advantage. Of course, you can only use it if you have the extra stone at R9. Let’s check a few possible white answers to this tesuji.

Diagram 3 — block from the outside

The most natural answer is to seal in black and block from the outside. Unfortunately, this is wrong. Black can steal the whole white territory and connect with his stone at R9.

Diagram 4 — block from the inside

Defending from inside looks solid, but black has another great move – the crosscut tesuji. After black 2 from Diagram 4, white can play atari from either of two sides. Which to choose? Let’s start with white 3 from Diagram 4. This gives white a very strong shape (ponnuki – shape after capturing one stone), but black gains a big territorial profit. This looks too good for black.

Diagram 5 — atari from the second side

An atari from other the side is also not so great. Black again takes solid profit. This variation is very painful for white, because black has a nice follow-up at Q14 which will seal white inside and build a powerful black wall. Before we lose all hope, let’s back up a few moves and search for the mistake we made.

Diagram 6 — White counterattack

Instead of capturing a stone with white 3 on Diagram 5, white can play a counter atari. This tesuji leads to a ko, and the fight looks even. Unfortunately, black can extend on the second line and connect to his R9 stone. This is why black needs the stone at R9 to play the tesuji in Diagram 2.

Diagram 7 — Answer

The proper move is white 1 in Diagram 7. This is an awesome tesuji which connects all the stones. Of course, black can build some thickness, but the final outcome looks even.

Diagram 8 – Black’s greed

If black becomes too greedy and tries to cut the white stones, he will incur a big loss. A and B are miai points for connecting the white stones.

Diagram 9 — Joseki

The best that both sides can do is Diagram 9. White secures territory and black gets some nice forcing moves to build a small wall. The result is acceptable for both sides.

Diagram 10 — Black to move

This time I’ll leave you with a very famous life&death problem, which happens very often in real games. White wants to live inside, but it’s black’s move. Can you kill the white group unconditionally?

I have decided to cover the shape from this post (and the previous post) for a few more weekends, so if you want to master this joseki stay tuned!

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Hello guys and girls :) Haengma is changing dramatically! It will have more tutorials and interesting columns.

The first new column will be called Whiteboard Sunday. Why Whiteboard Sunday? Because I won’t use Eidogo in this column, but instead I will make black and white Diagrams. I think this is a better way to teach. Every Sunday I’ll post about some small topic and give one problem to solve in the following week.

Diagram 1 — First Joseki

In the first Whiteboard Sunday, I want discuss one of the most common joseki in the corner. Diagram 1 shows that joseki. The sequence itself is easy to remember, but afterward the situation becomes complicated if you want to find a nice follow-up.

Diagram 2 — Black tesuji

From black’s perspective, a follow-up is very easy to find. Black 1 from Diagram 2 is a tesuji. In 99% of games white will answer with 2 and next black will link all his stones with black 3. Now white has two major moves: A or B. Most players play next at A, because B looks a little passive.

Diagram 3 — White wedge

White 1 in Diagram 3 is the most popular answer. This way white puts more pressure on the black shape. After move 4 black gets a nice strong wall but loses sente. This is the purpose of white 1. Sometimes Black keeps sente by skipping black 4. Of course this is not as good, because after connecting at 4 black gets a wall without any weaknesses.

Dia. 4 — White mistake

White 1 at Diagram 4 is a mistake. There is no chance to break this huge wall. White gains very little and black gets an iron wall. This sequence is possible, but only in the endgame stage when there isn’t any other way to reduce the black territory in center.

Diagram 5 — Hard time

White can also try to play atari form the other side, but after black 4 in Diagram 5 the situation becomes very hard. As you can see, the white wedge from Diagram 3 gives black a very nice wall.

Diagram 6 — Calm response

Some people don’t like the previous outcome. They prefer to play more calm and thick with white 1 in Diagram 6. This move doesn’t give black too much strength. It’s also very good from a territorial perspective. The black endgame move at A is no longer sente, so we can say that locally white gets a nice profit from this exchange.

Diagram 7 — Break out

If black plays tenuki after Diagram 6, white will break out to the center with 1-5. This makes black’s first move meaningless. White 1 in Diagram 7 is a tesuji and worth remembering.

Diagram 8 — Black to play

At the end of this Whiteboard Sunday I’ll give you problem to solve. Also please leave comments. What do you think about this column? Which topics do you want me to cover next in Whiteboard Sunday?

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28-29 November I was playing in Andrychow Tournament Pod Basztą ’09. I was also asked to make pairing for this tournament, so I didn’t expected good results. 22 people played in 5 rounds.

Unexpectedly I was theoretical the strongest player in the tournament, so few people said that I’m planning to win tournament. I didn’t like this idea. Pressure was too high.
I couldn’t afford to lost any game :( In first round I play against Paweł Skrabania 3kyu.

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I forgot to wrote kifu, so I have only openings from my games. Before tournament
I analyze few patterns in Chinese opening, so I decide to try this opening in tournament. The fight in bottom right corner is little complicated, but I was convinced in my middle game and endgame skill, so I decide to choose the easiest variation.

Black 41 was little far-fetched, but I want to fight. This was good decision, because before endgame I got solid 5-10 points lead. In endgame my opponents lost enormous number of moku. I won this game by 55 and half moku. My next opponent was Paweł Stepnowski 4kyu.

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I took white stones this time. I was contented with my opening, but suddenly black play weird move. I don’t know if this is playable or not, but next black move is really bad making previous move placed really bad. White gets extra thick for free.

In middle game I planned to attack the black group in upper side, but Paweł unexpectedly ignore my sente move and reinforce his group on upper side. This give me chance to build nice moyo in center. After some fight I get free points in center. I won this game by 48 and half moku. In third round (last game in first day of tournament) I play against Kuba Straszewski 1d

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I always enjoy games with Kuba and this game is also was very good. I took white stones. In this game we play two avalanache joseki. In both we made mistakes ;p Kuba made a bad exchange: black 21 for white 22. Because of this, B16 was no longer black ultimate sente. My mistake was to start large avalanchein bottom left corner. I should play B4 instead of white 36. This way game would be much simpler.

In game I had hard time in the fight in center. Black got a lot free points on left side and I had weak group on bottom side. I luckily survive to endgame phase. In endgame, game was overturned and I won by 6,5 points. The first day of tournament ended.

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My first opponent in second day was Marcin Skrabania 2kyu. This was my second game with black stones and I play Chinese Opening again. Marcin decided to interrupt my opening playing hasami. After black 39 my position was really good.

White 50 is mistake giving me chance to block at C11 in sente. I won this game by resignation before entering to endgame. In last game I was playing against Jan Frejlak 1d.

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Jan in opening play intersting tsuke. I made miscalculating in variation from the game and black take a lead in opening. Fortunately Black made mistake about my group in center and I get a lot of big points in the last part of opening. I was happy to sacrifice group on left side for big moyo on upper and right side. This way situation was unclear and black was forced to invade. After long complex fights I manage to kill one of two invaders and won the game by 21 and half moku.

Full results of this tournaments are available at Go w Polsce – Turniej Pod Basztą. I got nice Cup for first place. I want thanks Organizers for preparing nice tournament for people who couldn’t play in Polish Championship, which was played in the same time.

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Last year I couldn’t go to Polish Summer Go Camp 2009, so this time I decided to do everything this year to participate. After very long travel by train (567 km and about 12 hours) I arrived to Alaska, place of the Go Camp. In first days the weather was great. People were enjoying the time on the beach. Of course this was Go Camp, so there were plenty of Baduk tournaments.

First tournament, was prepared to help new visitors to get to know each other. Unfortunately I was playing only with people that I know. In first round I had big hallucination and resign very quickly to Stanisław Frejlak 2d. In next three round I play much better and won them all against: Anna Sośnicka 1k, Krzysztof Bożek 2d and Michał Langner 3d – full results.

There were 2 type of baduk tournaments. First type you can call important and in this tournaments people were playing for big prizes (Polish Academic Championship for example). Second type of tournaments you can call “for fun” (Ligthing, Rengo, Team tournament). In first type I play not bad, but couldn’t win important matches. My luck goes to “for fun tournaments” where I won all three tournaments very easily. In the end I’m very content of my overall results in Baduk tournaments in Polish Summer Go Camp 2009. BTW: After Lighting tournament I was promoted to 2-Dan in Polish Ranking List.

Playing Baduk whole time can be fun, but the most enjoyable part was meeting old and new friends. I was shocked to met some friends after so many years. In the end we decided to make eve night and singing to the dawn. This was just amazing :) Of course this kind of summer camp is great to met new friends. For example launching hand made boats on the lake was hilarious. I just can’t wait to go there again and met these great people.

P.S. More great photos you can found on tasuki gallery.

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20-21, Andrychów, Poland held Polish preliminary to Korean Prime Minister Cup. For two days we could see strongest Polish players in one place. It is worth to remind that this tournament was also comeback for current Polish Champion – Kamil Chwedyna 4d, who was in military service for a year. Unfortunately last year champion Andrzej Zyzak 4dan don’t come to defend his title :(

I was placed into top group so I get chance to play with strongest :) In first round I was paired with Kamil Chwedyna 4d. Everone and me was sure that this game will be one side, but when I saw that i’m playing with white stones I thought that maybe game is not decided yet :)

To white 22 game was typical, but black 23 is very weird. Of course my opponent is very strong in middle game fighting, so ommision opening and starts fight was good choice for him. I overlook his power and play very bad move of white 26 I should play at R13 instead. After some fight in center I sacrifice some stones and starts playing endgmae moves. The most shocking were respondes of my opponent. He give everything I wanted. Of course in exchange he build framework in center, but big framework is easy to reducing.

Main problem was time, because when he form a framework I was in byo yomi. In this tournament everyone had 1 hour and 30 sec one time byo yomi. Not only time weren’t so huge, but also i descovered in main time that i lossing too many time on simple moves. In the past I used to play very fast, so I decide to play in byo yomi only at opponent shapes, without reading anything.

With black 113 my opponent made mistake. After exchange black 105 to white 106 white territory in upper side is very solid and black 113 have no followup, it’s only dame so white get profit. Now game looks very even and i thought that i have chance to win the game and black madeanother mistake of black 117. This time mistake was final. Black dragon die and my opponent was forced to resigned.

In 2 round I was paired with Koichiro Habu 4d. In past i didn’t have many possibility to play games with him :( His baduk is interesting and he always is surprising me with moves from no where :)

In oppening I made mistake I should play black 17 at white 18. After white 22 my wall looks meaningless :( After opening I play very chaotic and made a lot mistake in fight. For example black 57 should be at D12, if white defend then 57 is making powerful shape. In the end I choose exchange and turn fighting game in very long game for the points. Unfortunately i discovered that I’m losing by few points. I tried my best to complicated situation and with some help from my opponent I made it :)

White 110 is little too much, he should just back and play at P9. White 114 is also bad it take one his own liberty. IMO he want too much and play white 130. If cut black two stones and made a live he would be won by few points. I welcome very happy complicated fight :) After black 137 I was in good mood. He must overlook black 143. In the end we made exchange. Unfortunately I was in byo yomi and made 15kyu mistake. My opponent make life :( Instead of black 157 I should play at 158 and kill white dragon. Anyway I was leading a little, but miss his peep at 186 and lost the game by resignation :(

In third game I play against 2kyu, and won this game by huge margin. I forgot i made a kifu so only few game are available on baduk.pl :(

Next day I play against Mateusz Surma 3d and lost this game, because of overlooking variation in corner. Leter I tried little to complicated situation, but Mateusz show great reading ability and without mistake he kill my groups.

In last round was paring  Krzysztof Urtnowski 1d. This game is very interesting from few points of view. First I made mistake in opening by making ko. In opening there is no ko threat, so my opponent get solid profit. Another interesting is what happend with people when they get leading in early stage of game. In most cases they relaxed and give up more and more points in leter parts of game. Krzystof is very strong fighter, but after winning the ko he lost his fighting spirit. In the end I won the game by 40,5 points.

I end at 6th place. The prize for 1st place goes to Leszek Soldan 5d who beat all his opponents. This tournament show few interesting things about my baduk. I tend to thing a lot longer, but making stupid mistakes. I think this is because in last few weaks i didn’t play and lost a lot of fighting stamina. Before another tournament i will for sure make some training:)

Games are available at baduk.pl Photos are from http://go.tengen.pl/album.html

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Today I back from tournament in Frydek-Mistek(Czech Republic). IMHO tournament was very good. My paring was very good for me. First I played with 1-Dan Smid from Slovakia. In this game i decide to change my style. I play very solid in fuseki an later start big fight. I won this game by 26,5 points after killing big group.

In second round i played with my Friend Vit Brunner 4-Dan. Unfortunately I made big mistake in opening and I was behind in territory. Vit made mistake in bottom side and game back to even but my 89 was too greedy i should just capture single stone. Few moves later I resign.

In third round (vs Petr Cipra 3-Dan)I don’t play bad but few small mistake put me in unfavorable position (40,52). In chuban i play some yose moves and game back to even but I made big mistake in fight in center and lost group. The game show me that must study more about shapes.

Fourth game was with my friend Jarek Kopek 1-Dan . This was my first peaceful game with him. I play very badly in chuban but Jarek had misread and gave up hanami ko for free. After this my situation was very good. When we enter yose Jarek resign (in his opinion I was leading 13,5 points).

Five game was the most interested because I was playing with Lukas Podpera 2-Dan. In first round he play with my friend Radosław Jachym and beat him in complex fight. In next round he played with Radek Nechavicky and lost by 0,5 points! I was preparing for big game, because i’m not so strong like Nechavicky or Jachym.

Game started very common, but after my mistake with white 42, black find great move at 47 and I feel that I start losing the game. I had many good place to resign in the game, but Lukas play very beautiful baduk and i don’t have enough chance to play with this kind of player, so I was fighting to the end. Fortunately Black made some mistakes in yose (he could play 5-point gote, but played 3-point gote) and I won lucky by 0,5 point.

Result isn’t bad and I feel I learn a lot in this weekend. Now I find my path to improve my baduk and this is the most important.

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