Well, this is hardly a weekly series, but never mind!
When I was first learning about Go, I was so baffled by the placement of stones in the opening and the sorts of comments of strong players had about fuseki that I drew a cartoon for R4D in which a bewildered me lost a game at Move 1 because she didn’t understand the ramifications of playing the 3,3 point. Of course, then I learned a few things about corners and everything sorted itself out for awhile.
Recently, however, I read Takeo Kajiwara’s The Direction of Play. Chapter Three is intriguingly entitled, “Move Two Lost The Game” and begins with this anecdote:
“A certain professional go player, carefully scrutinising one of his own games, once remarked with a sigh: ‘Ah, move two lost me the game.’”
Kajiwara then goes on to show an amateur game in which he claims that Move Two was probably a losing move.
So, the question is this: which play is the losing move, A, B or C?
Kajiwara’s answer is here….
