Black to move

Move 175

Tom Newman[14k]

2 captures

②

trohde[8k]

4 captures

+ 0.5

Ranked

Rules: Japanese

Black to move

Move 0

March 7, 2025

[23:08] trohde[7k]: Good Game!

Move 1

March 8, 2025

[0:05] Tom Newman[14k]: I wish I could make a good game of it with you! Bad go, friendly discussions. I hope it balances out

Move 5

[1:03] trohde[7k]: Ah, Tom, my dear friend, pls don’t torture yourself … you’ll win again soon enough in one of our games – and then at some time one HC stone less, and the dance begins again 😆 plus my game is apparently deteriorating rapidly 🤷‍♂️

Move 8

[19:39] Tom Newman[14k]: Saw you comments about stopping smoking on the last game. Hopefully you are thru the worst of it now (as far as getting thru withdrawal). It's a good thing to quit.

[19:40] Tom Newman[14k]: And I don't see it impacting your game at all!

Move 9

March 9, 2025

[0:01] trohde[7k]: Thanks, yeah, the detox, resp. *physical* craving was a little more than one month, then it got better.

[0:03] trohde[7k]: So, I’m through the hardest phase, and really glad to leave the addiction behind, but the depression is worse than ever.

Move 17

March 11, 2025

[22:56] trohde[7k]: W = clueless as usual

Move 27

March 17, 2025

[0:13] trohde[8k]: no idea what rid me there

Move 58

March 24, 2025

[15:10] Tom Newman[14k]: Well, at least you know the cause of your depression and it's a physical response. My depression is all due to politics.

[15:11] Tom Newman[14k]: I hope the cause of each will improve for us both!

Move 59

[16:09] trohde[8k]: I feel you, Tom!

[16:10] trohde[8k]: Solidarity greetings

Move 97

April 2, 2025

[23:27] trohde[8k]: https://www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/openforum/article/insurrection-act-president-trump-20201819.php

[23:27] trohde[8k]: Not meant to deepen your depression, my friend, but you may want to know

[23:27] trohde[8k]: but you’ll actually know more than I about all this

April 3, 2025

[1:37] Tom Newman[14k]: Scary stuff. I've been calling my congressman (a Republican) weekly. Even went to my first protest calling for him to hold a town hall.

Move 99

[17:17] trohde[8k]: Variation: ehh, never mind

Move 100

[23:48] trohde[8k]: Yeah, I know I fup’d it uck there 😄

[23:48] trohde[8k]: fupdeeduck

[23:49] trohde[8k]: reminds me of a book I have somewhere in the house, never read it to the end for some reason I don’t remember, it was about a duck, and the title of the book was “Fup Duck”

[23:53] trohde[8k]: ah no, it just was “Fup”, but Fup’s a duck, so … not totally off. And the pun lingers like Aji :-D

[23:53] trohde[8k]: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/272614.Fup

Move 102

April 4, 2025

[0:22] Tom Newman[14k]: Or as we sailors say "f**k a duck" :-)

[19:14] trohde[8k]: 😆

Move 103

[19:14] trohde[8k]: Now I’m actually not so sure anymore 🤷‍♂️

Move 105

April 5, 2025

[9:47] trohde[8k]: Now it’s Ko?

Move 141

April 10, 2025

[22:07] trohde[8k]: Variation: cond move

[22:08] trohde[8k]: BTW, that lower left corner … I was totally confused there, I honestly thought it was lost for W and only later realized it wasn’t so.

[22:09] trohde[8k]: It’s because I play so many bad moves these days, I'm quite frustrated and somewhat demoralized, was even pondering quitting Go for a while

[22:09] trohde[8k]: what mean to say is that I wasn’t playing psycho games

Move 146

April 11, 2025

[16:08] Tom Newman[14k]: I thought it was more brilliance than psycho!

[16:32] trohde[8k]: I wish … it was more luck than anything else

Move 159

April 13, 2025

[23:18] trohde[8k]: I have no idea whether there is a chance to do something, but I simply cannot read this to the end, and it is not clear to me how many liberties etc.,

[23:18] trohde[8k]: Variation: this for example looks “interesting”

[23:19] trohde[8k]: Variation: but ofc this would be better answers by B that would refute W’s attempts

[23:20] trohde[8k]: 🙄

Move 160

[23:47] trohde[8k]: sometimes I can only imagine the moves I might play … like here, and only later I see the better move

[23:48] trohde[8k]: but now I have a bad conscience again … should I maybe ask you to pls request undo?

[23:48] trohde[8k]: but that also feels awkward

Move 161

April 14, 2025

[0:05] trohde[8k]: So … I’m not sure, honestly.

[0:05] trohde[8k]: senseis: Hamete

[0:05] trohde[8k]: senseis: TrickPlay

[0:06] trohde[8k]: And, most severely, senseis: RelyingOnTrickPlays

[0:06] trohde[8k]: Tom

[0:07] trohde[8k]: 🚨

[0:07] trohde[8k]: maybe we should both ask for undo

[0:09] trohde[8k]: please ONLY grant the undo request if you’ll also request an undo 😄

[0:20] trohde[8k]: senseis: ChanceTesuji

[0:20] trohde[8k]: senseis: SpeculativeInvasion

[0:20] trohde[8k]: senseis: BadHabits

[0:21] trohde[8k]: I haven’t read all through “Bad Habits” but I’m sure I’m guilty of many.

[0:22] trohde[8k]: senseis: WouldntItBeNice dammit

[0:24] trohde[8k]: maybe I should even resign and then commit Seppuku

[0:24] trohde[8k]: OK, that last thing was joking, ofc

[0:25] trohde[8k]: but not the resign thing, but that would make me a sandbagger?

[12:21] Tom Newman[14k]: Thanks, but you have nothing to feel bad about. Let's play it out.

Move 163

[13:02] trohde[8k]: Thanks back. You will see what I mean in the MLog.

Move 168

[19:17] Tom Newman[14k]: You probably could have killed the group with a move to A14. I've really made a mess of it.

[19:18] Tom Newman[14k]: Variation: Maybe escape...

Move 169

[19:21] trohde[8k]: Yes, I think B could have connected, is why I captured, also to reduce liberties on D18

[19:21] trohde[8k]: and I also saw A13 and wondered whether I could destroy eye space, but B would’ve been faster to capture C17 group then

[19:22] trohde[8k]: also, I need to relax and stop panicking when I am leading – but I also need to realize it when I'm leading, one of my biggest weaknesses, I think, not to count

Move 173

April 15, 2025

[10:05] trohde[8k]: Variation: $*!%!

[10:07] trohde[8k]: four moves ago already 😳 and we both didn’t realize?