If we do concentrate for just a moment on how to beat mogo, I can
report that in the 3 blitz games the pro figured out that multistep
kos were the easy way. But in the longer game he presented the same
pattern to mogo to start it, but mogo played differently. I thought
that was a huge difference.
Cheers,
David
On 11, Aug 2008, at 5:10 PM, Peter Christopher wrote:
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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