I am about as strong as the mogos running on kgs. I get a kick out of
trying to learn how to beat the mogos there. It's certainly not as easy
as beating gnu go with a few stones (just surround it) or beating aya
giving it 6 stones (just don't make tactical mistakes, but take
advantage of its tactical mistakes). With mogo there are other
techniques, but this isn't a post about the strategical considerations
for beating mogo at go thinking.
Often, mogo can beat me because the game is short, thus I can't think
quickly enough in some of the complexity it presents. I get back,
though, occasionally. When I stay properly ahead of mogo on time,
sometimes in the endgame it has the standard few points ahead, but
sometimes mogo doesn't estimate time properly... and gets down to 5 ...
4 ... 3 ... 2 ... Then mogo gets scared. It doesn't play any more
stones, it just passes. (pass doesn't remove time on kgs). I calmy
destroy one of mogos groups, quickly making 5 or 6 moves in a row ... I
still have 10 seconds left ... mogo passes again, I pass, I win ...
Of course I was the loser of the real go game, but because the mogos are
running with bizarre time settings, and they beat me sometimes because
of them, I get my revenge.
Pedro
Costa Rica
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