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Week 12

From: "Charles Matthews" <charles@sabaki.demon.co.uk>

Newsgroups: rec.games.go
Sent: Monday, March 19, 2001 3:24 AM

Subject: Re: Nets

Andrew Morris wrote

>I've reached a rather tenuous 1-kyu rating, but still find myself regularly being caught in nets.

Not to worry (too much). I've known 3 and 4 dans fall into knight's move nets (the type that used to be on the cover of James Davies'  "Tesuji").And I (a 3 dan) got caught in a net-squeeze-ladder type thing yesterday in the British Championship :( .

>Are there any good studies on this subject, or better yet a set of problems.

I'm told there are over 40 types of nets. Matthew Macfadyen reckoned one Ion Florescu played on him recently was of a kind he'd not seen before, which is saying something. But there's a bit of a gap in the literature here (I've heard of a booklet of Russian origin). May do something about it myself some day.

Charles


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Goran Siska wrote
>
>Charles Matthews wrote
>> I (a 3 dan) got caught in a net-squeeze-ladder type thing
>> yesterday in the British Championship :( .
>>
> I'd sure like to see that :) Any chance of a post?
>
Since you insist. (I won anyway ... good luck rather than good
management).
The problem arises after play 118. I've commented the game,
which was interesting (net.zip). Charles


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