Hello everyone.
This is the 64th NHK Cup.
I am the moderator, Nagashima Kozue.
Today is the 6th game of the first round.
B block.
Awaji Shuzo 9 dan vs. Suzuki Ayumi 7 dan.
Please enjoy.
After the nigiri, Awaji Shuzo will go first.
Komi is 6.5 points. Each move must be made within 30 seconds.
However, each player gets 10, 1 minute periods of thinking time.
Good luck.
Now, to introduce the players.
Playing Black, Awaji Shuzo 9 dan.
66 years old.
Born in Tokyo.
Studied under Itou Tomoe.
Plays for the Nihon Kiin in Tokyo.
This is his 26th time to play in the NHK cup.
Playing White, Suzuki Ayumi 7 dan.
32 years old. Born in Tokyo.
Studied under Ibata Hajime 8 dan.
Plays for the Tokyo Nihon Kiin.
This is her 6th game in the NHK in 4 years.
Now to introduce our commentator.
Yamashita Keigo 9 dan.
Thank you for being here.
Good to be here.
First off, what will be the highlight of today's match?
Well, both of them have considerable confidence in their reading.
The game can easily become a fighting game.
They'll be hitting each other hard.
I think the game will be quite enjoyable for amateur players to watch.
Looking forward to it.
The game has progressed up to here...
They're playing out a joseki.
You play this if you like to take territory.
You can take territory and then bring the game into a fight.
Let's talk about the win/loss record between these two playres.
Awaji 9 dan has won twice with no losses.
Black approaches here, and will play in the upper left depending on how White responds.
Recently this is a commonly seen move.
It's a faster opening.
Awaji 9 dan is 66 years old.
He's the oldest player in the NHK cup.
Well, he still seems young and lively when he's playing Go.
They say that the younger players have an advantage when it comes to reading.
As you get older your ability does in fact go down but...
Awaji doesn't seem that way.
He plays youthful fighting games.
Is this a commonly played opening?
Yes, very common.
Chinese opening.
This is rare.
Normally you expand along the left side.
That would be common sense.
Nowadays, computers play these kinds of moves.
I think he's drawing inspiration from the computer's style.
The most common move would be to expand here.
You played here so that White wouldn't get this move.
The meaning of the approach was to avoid this.
So now you develop over here...
Now the pincer looks great, but...
Black's tiger's mouth shape is rather safe.
White can't really attack Black that hard. That's the meaning of this move.
He must have really studied games played by a computer.
I think there are few games played like this.
They might be heading straight into a fight.
They've taken common sense and turned it on its head.
Our way of thinking has changed.
White has pincered.
Since her opponent has played elsewhere, you want to attack.
Will Black play elsewhere again?
For example, something here...
Running away would make the group safe.
This area is wide open, and would be a good spot.
You can pincer or approach.
Playing here would make Black's position quite good.
If White were to immediately start attacking here...
It'd be hard to say how White would gain from such an attack.
Probably he's thinking of playing elsewhere.
Solid.
I think there is nothing wrong with protecting like this.
Is White going to start attacking?
I think White will pincer.
White could also try to split Black.
Pincering is more aggressive.
Black is coming at White from the other side.
It would be thick for Black to reinforce the two stones after White kicks but...
That would let White extend easily.
Instead he wants to improve his position on the right side.
He's going to continue to fight.
This style is indicative of Awaji's play style.
Black could play like this and there is nothing wrong with that..
White is comfortable when he extends here.
This move expands this side.
White also has a lot of territory here.
They'll probably fight.
I feel like Black is under attack.
It'll come down to whether or not he has a good move to sabaki.
Can he run away?
He could jump, there shouldn't be a problem.
There are a lot of moves to think about.
He's thinking about which one is best.
It's still a calm game.
Fierce fighting hasn't broken out yet.
It could be though.
They're both patient.
Because this is a two space jump, one worries about the connection.
This move here is forcing.
White cannot cut.
I don't think this will happen right away.
I think White will play here and then aim for a cut here later.
You could also attack from this side.
Let Black play towards this direction
You can also hane here.
Now the ate komi here no longer works.
It makes aiming for the cut easier.
There is the 3,3 invasion which is aji Black can aim at as well, and it would be protected.
In the game she played Kosumi.
A normal move.
Suzuki 7 dan just got promoted to 7 dan this year.
I think in the ranking there were two people promoted...
There was just one person who got promoted from 6 dan to 7 dan.
Just one?
Wow.
She was number one among the 6 dans.
There are a lot of young players nowadays.
To make it to the #1 spot is great.
This season Suzuki Ayumi and Lin Kanketsu who are husband and wife have both entered this season's NHK cup.
Lin 7 dan won his first round game last week quite brilliantly.
Ayumi probably really wants to win her first game too.
It looks like White's group on the bottom is getting attacked.
Well, it's not so much that Black is attacking White, but rather to focus on building the Black territory on the right.
Black is aiming to play this next.
It looks like White can capture a stone.
White can, however...
Here is better,
Now this area is a nice framework for Black.
White needs to avoid this.
Therefore...
The question is how to defend.
Coming out and protecting at the same time would be normal.
Black might continue to press. White might be worried about that.
So does Black not need to worry about these Black stones.
Black is out in the center.
Peep.
This might get fierce.
The fighting has begun.
They're both trying to counterattack
I thought that Black might sacrifice the two stones towards the bottom.
He seems to have accepted her challenge.
This is getting intense.
Will White push through?
White could.
It leaves a weakness in White's shape though.
White might have a way to handle it.
Is White going to block?
If White does, Black can cut.
Black could also atari from the top.
White will then need to connect.
Black could play a tiger's mouth at that point.
But White is already out into the center.
White extended,
Now it would be good shape for Black to wedge at the bottom.
He'd have some safety.
It looks like neither of them are in any real danger.
It ended peacefully.
Now the question is how to reduce the right side.
Can White play elsewhere?
Yes. White doesn't need to worry about that group.
White approached.
Black has quite a few stones in the area. Despite that, is it safe for White to approach like this?
White's group in the center is nothing to worry about.
White just has to make life with this group. There's nothing to worry about.
White is playing a light shape.
White doesn't need to be worried about getting captured.
While White is making life, the upper right will become Black's framework.
While White is living with her group, she'll want to avoid that.
White is playing peacefully.
if White were to just make life, White's position would feel quite cramped.
White can come out and focus on the center.
How much territory has White taken so far?
In the upper left 15 points.
In the lower left White has around 20 points.
So 35 points.
Black should be able to turn the right into territory.
So the question is how much territory can Black make by attacking White?
Black wants to turn the upper right into territory naturally.
White invaded the 3,3 point.
This seems a bit early.
I feel that it'd be more natural to continue to make life with the White group after the capping move.
This way, White is trying to make territory and will handle the White group on the left should it come under attack.
I thought that Black would choose the joseki where Black hanes.
If Black plays the standard joseki, that'd be gote.
This allows Black to play elsewhere and find a way to attack White in the lower right.
Black was playing to take the initiative.
Normally, Black plays the joseki where he hanes.
Now hane and connect.
Now Black must protect.
White can make sabaki with this, and White gets the initiative.
This is the ideal situation. Black gets thick and afterwards White makes life.
Black isn't going to allow that.
This move is to take sente.
Now that we look at it, it looks like White may have perhaps focused too much on territory.
Blacks move looks pretty harsh.
Does White need to play something to connect?
Peeping once should do it.
It appears to be connected.
She haned.
They keep on fighting.
This is getting fierce.
The fight is starting to spread out.
The idea is to pick a fight, somehow gain an advantage from the fight, and then deal with the stones in the lower right.
Black's descent was unexpected.
It threatens to jump into the corner.
You can't bank on the idea that White will just live. White might do something else.
But then again, will White be okay if White does something else?
The most normal way to play would be to just connect like so.
Black can jump in and then the corner is not alive.
White can push and then play a knight's move like this.
Black has a lot to worry about.
It looks like it'll be a capturing race of some kind?
Well, let's try something simple.
This would be a capturing race.
White has 4 liberties.
This has 1-2-3-4 and here is 1-2-3.
Black loses by one liberty.
Not good for Black.
Black would have to attach here.
I'm not exactly sure.
It's difficult.
What if White protects?
Where should he play now?
Somewhere.
Allowing White to attach here is bad,
This way Black can block. White's corner is not alive.
Black can be satisfied with sealing White in.
That would be painful for White, I think.
There are a lot of options.
You can try to attach here first.
Block.
Now extend.
I'm not sure if Black is captured.
White can come here. It's really unclear.
If this doesn't go well, White will be in trouble.
She's using her time to think and work through the variations.
She just defended.
Black protected so he should also be...
He had a goal when he descended and now he's achieved it.
Is she trying to capture?
I don't think she can.
As I said before, blocking is sente.
You mean against the corner, right?
White forces Black to crawl to try and find a way around letting Black block against the corner.
If White extends then the shape may get broken.
I wonder what will happen next?
If White just extends..
Black will attach.
White is low on liberties.
White cannot escape.
Black has 3 liberties and White has 2.
Before that White might want to do something like attach.
White also could try and find some forcing moves, like turning here.
Now White can extend
Black extends, and this attachment is still there.
My first feeling is to attach.
As in, attach over here.
She attached.
Black cannot let the four stones at the top get captured?
He doesn't want them to be captured, no.
If he does let them get captured, he'd have to find a way to sacrifice them to make the lower right corner big.
Letting White hane is no good.
He'll protect.
It's hard to find the right move to do it.
Protecting this way is the thickest move.
Depending on the situation, White could play like this...
White then connects naturally.
This seems like a waste.
How will he protect?
Can he play like this and threaten White?
This is a possibility but...
Handling this would be difficult.
This?
White can atari.
Now White isn't worried about Black attaching here anymore.
In the game...he pulled back.
Did she have this moved prepared in advance?
I hadn't thought about it.
I was thinking about the hane, which would be a more normal move.
This move is aiming at the cut.
I really feel like haneing was better.
Now she has to pull back.
It looks like Black will be able to turn his attention back to the lower right corner.
It'd be nice to have a severe move against the White group towards the top.
It seems like Black can attack it.
There's some open space here.
If White plays here she can cut.
Reducing Black's eye space is going to be difficult.
Black has a forcing move here too
This should do the trick to capture these stones.
He might try for something bigger.
White could have haned and then come back here to make life.
I felt like that would have been a faster, less heavy way to play.
Now White has a group here and is looking to attack. Not only that...
It'd be best to sacrifice this so the loss is as small as possible.
Black is counting territory and judging the board position.
He's counting how much territory he needs to surround to be satisfied.
It might not be enough to just capture like this.
He might want to go for something bigger
He wants to attack and then capture them at the last moment.
Make these stones heavy and then in the end, capture them.
That'd be ideal.
The trick is figuring out from which side you should attack.
He protected.
White will play something in the lower right?
White will now turn back to the lower right corner.
If Black blocks is White connected?
Half of it would be.
He's not going to let her.
Now things are going to get exciting.
What's going to happen with White's group towards the top?
Is it weak?
It is.
Black has to attack it or White will find a way to settle.
Black's group on the right isn't totally alive.
White has weak groups too.
So they both are going to attack each other in the hopes that they can strengthen their own position.
Well White has broken the right side apart.
The 3 White stones in the lower right are probably all captured.
Black gained some territory.
It depends on how well White can use those stones to her advantage.
The fighting has begun.
Black pushed so it'd be strange for him not to cut.
I think he'll cut.
There it is.
This sequence makes me worry for Black.
The lower right is captured, but...
Now atari.
Escape.
Connect.
Now hane here.
Push.
Black's group here is not alive yet.
I wonder if this group will be okay.
If White seals Black in, then it comes down to whether or not Black's group here is alive.
There may be an even more severe move.
Black has some things to worry about.
This move would be normal.
With the game sequence he captures two stones, but White gets thick.
It's happening now.
Now that it's begun, neither one of them can back down from this fight.
It depends if Black has a move to more cleanly capture.
The aji is bad.
Now White's 5 stones are dead.
They can't escape.
This is a peep.
I thought she would push.
What is the status of Black's group?
I worry about it.
Suzuki is quite good at life and death.
It's her specialty.
There's no mistaking it.
Black cannot make eyes just by playing towards the edge.
He has to find a way out.
Awaji's facial expression hasn't changed all game.
Is he alright? He should be worried.
The situation looks dangerous.
But, he's a veteran player. The worry doesn't show on his face.
Black is going to have a difficult time getting out.
It looks like he can capture this stone.
If White runs...
Push through.
These two points are miai.
He can capture it however...
Cut?
Atari.
Even if Black captures...
This is a false eye.
This is bad for Black.
It's dead.
Just taking this stone won't be helpful.
Then what will he do?
He's using his thinking time.
Maybe he can extend.
Block?
White will defend, and then...
Peep.
This looks like Black can live.
This is solid.
This is definitely an eye.
This is actually tricky.
This is a solid eye.
Block.
Black is in danger.
This won't work for Black.
Black can push and cut through here.
Black has a lot of liberties.
In the game...
While I'm not exactly sure of what will happen, Black's position is painful.
He played here.
Playing here is bad shape.
If White blocks Black can cut.
This is a forcing move.
Black won't answer this move.
Black will come out.
Right, just capture these stones.
What happens if White connects the stone that's in atari?
It's possible.
Then, a capturing race?
White might just be trying to live with the group on the right.
Connecting is the right shape here.
Black isn't going to die, Black should live.
White can escape with the two stones which had previously been captured.
White can capture 3 Black stones.
Next if White attaches...
There is a cut here.
Saving these two stones doesn't seem like it'll amount to much.
I think she'll hane.
Now, what does Black do?
It'd be nice to be able to play this but...
Atari, and then there is this push and cut.
If White connects...
White can wedge and cut now.
She played this move first.
This makes pushing through and cutting and the wedge miai.
White can wedge here.
If Black protects, White can push and cut.
Black lives.
But now White plays here and Black cannot save the middle.
I feel Black is in a real bind.
So even if Black protects here...
Capturing these stones is big.
After this Black has to escape.
That would mean that White gained a lot from this cut.
Black has to find a good way to defend.
Black plays here.
If Black lives after playing all of these forcing moves...
Black lives.
Black's alive, but I think the game isn't good for Black overall.
He can live with all of these forcing moves.
Looks painful.
White could play the empty triangle in response to the peep.
Maybe the peep doesn't work.
Saving everything might be difficult.
He has only one period left.
Black can't let White block here.
He might extend.
He might not actually be thinking about what to play.
He might be regretting his move and thinking he's failed.
If White captures these she makes a lot of points.
These stones are dead but here...
White has this endgame.
There's no mistaking it. This result is a failure for Black.
White doesn't have to worry about her groups anymore.
She doesn't.
The endgame looks promising for White.
Black's group in the middle doesn't have two clear eyes.
His shape at the top is a little thin as well.
It has a few weak points.
Would you say White is in the lead?
Yes, I think so.
Black just pushed.
Hane is the normal move.
It leaves a cut.
The attachment from before no longer works.
Cutting right away would be overplay.
White would push through and this group looks to be in danger.
White wants to play here.
If Black plays here first...
Now Black's groups have a better relationship.
This is a forcing move.
Here he can make an eye in sente.
There's some eye space here.
Black's position is stronger.
It's a spot you want to play soon.
Is Black aiming at White's group at the bottom?
Possibly.
Depending on what happens, there might be a furikawari (large scale change in territory).
It's possible.
Black probably needs to cut. Just playing out the endgame won't be enough.
He cut.
So is Black trying to capture White's stones at the bottom? Even if his stones in the middle are captured?
There's a possibility he's trying to force a capturing race.
A capturing race?
Yes, with the White group in the middle.
That group doesn't have two eyes.
Well the White group on the bottom....has an eye?
Hard to say.
White has some aji she can use by extending.
That way she can make two eyes.
If Black wants to capture he needs to protect against that.
There's still open space.
If White plays she can make an eye.
There's a question if she can make an eye in sente.
There's the problem of this move.
Leaving this for right now, what happens here?
A capturing race between this White group and this Black group.
White is sealed in.
If this happens..
Really hard to say.
White probably wins.
Black might play here to make eyes first before this.
To get more liberties.
That sort of thing could happen.
White might be going for too much.
Maybe play less complicated variations.
Cutting in the center was really severe.
This move gives up on the bottom.
Well we looked at the capturing race earlier...
What about eye space?
There should be something.
White would be very behind in territory if she let this group get captured.
It's pretty rough with no time to think.
Both players used all of their thinking periods.
So now it's life or death for White's group on the bottom.
White might play the knight's move.
To expand her area.
It doesn't feel like it's going to die.
Jump?
This might be the shape to make an eye.
However, it's not clear cut yet.
Seems like Black will need to peep in the middle.
You mean at the bottom?
This move could create a ko. Black has many ko threats at the bottom.
What will White do?
White is up on territory as long as nothing horrible happens.
She can think about compromising.
If Black just makes two eyes then....
White's position becomes thin in that case.
If she can handle this situation well, then victory is within sight.
So Black has to lay down the gauntlet.
A ko fight has begun.
This is really difficult situation.
I don't think this ko fight ends with Black just connecting.
From White's perspective, this ko isn't that severe.
So does Black not have any eyes now?
Yes.
Now he played there.
What's happening?
I don't feel White can live unconditionally.
Maybe the cut will come next.
And then after the cut, Black will atari from the top...
After that the atari isn't sente.
Can White make eyes at the bottom in sente?
Will it be difficult?
I don't feel it's a sure thing.
Black atari'd from the top.
There might be a ko. The status of the group is not unconditionally alive.
So now is it ko?
Connect.
Black must play the empty triangle.
Oh, not really.
Attach in the middle.
Empty triangle.
Now when White makes an eye at the to part of the group.
Does White have an eye at the bottom?
At the bottom...
It's a ko.
Black has to watch out for White's attachment.
White hasn't made a full eye yet though.
When Black defends, White needs one more move to make an eye.
So what was the meaning of connecting?
Now White has a sure fire eye.
Now, the bottom.
If Black pushes it's a ko.
Is this Black group dead?
For the most part, yes.
There's still the aji of Black's hane.
There's also the matter of White's group at the bottom.
There's the hane.
Awaji 9 dan is mumbling to himself.
So White has to play the ko.
Does she have the ko threats?
Well it feels like a capturing race.
Black should have quite a few threats because of that capturing race.
I think Black has more ko threats.
It depends if it's worth as much as the top.
Black could trade the top for the bottom?
How many threats does White have?
White should have one more here.
Running out at the bottom....
That should be a threat.
This is a big ko.
Finding ko threats will be difficult.
This move is just aiming to live in the corner.
Black protected.
Does White have some leeway?
Black does have a lot of ko threats.
But it feels like his ko threats damage his position.
White feels like she has some breathing room.
White has to answer this.
She needs to make a bamboo tube.
Who wins the capturing race?
Attaching should let White come out....
At least I thought so.
Between the large knight's move.
This move wins the capturing race.
With this Black cannot squeeze White from the outside to make White lose points inside her own territory (semedori).
This move also has an eye for invading at the top.
Can White capture Black at the top?
It might be tough to save everything.
Black defended.
It looks like they'll continue playing here.
Next, White extends.
Is Black's group at the top in danger?
White can peep first.
So now White is connected.
Black wants to resolve the ko and play a move at the top.
Does he have a move to accomplish that?
He should.
What exactly that move would be...well....
Black attached there because otherwise he wouldn't have a means of unconditionally living.
Black won the ko.
White's response to Black's attachment at the top was probably to clarify the situation on the board.
We'll see if Black's attachment actually works.
Now we'll see if the top group lives.
We'll see if Black has a move to handle this soon.
I don't see a move for him to live.
Will it become a ko?
It doesn't look like he can live.
The central part has space for half an eye.
He has to find a spot where he can make an eye in sente.
White can connect out by playing the kosumi.
White played this move...connecting under would've been fine....
I don't think she'll pull back.
She connected under.
With this, White is connected.
He cannot make an eye in sente.
Will White be captured in a shortage of liberties.
Maybe my eyes are deceiving me.
Playing a stone next to it (narabi) should be fine.
Connect solidly on the first line.
There's still the push and cut.
Normally you respond with an empty triangle.
Black doesn't have two eyes.
He made one eye.
Now where to play?
I feel White should directly connect on the first line.
The problem is there is still the push and cut.
Connecting on the first line and the push and cut are miai.
White connects solidly.
Black taking the one stone and White pushing through and cutting are miai.
Black is dead, unconditionally.
He resigned.
After 204 moves, Suzuki Ayumi 7 dan has won by resignation.
Suzuki Ayumi 7 dan, White, has won by resignation.
Looking back at today's game, what are your thoughts?
In the beginning there was a fierce fight.
At first I thought things were in Black's favor.
Black overplayed and this became weak.
Suzuki 7 dan took a lot of points.
Awaji 9 dan then tried to find moves to settle the game.
It was a difficult fight.
The initial battle was very big.
Suzuki 7 dan was quite calm.
We really got to see Suzuki 7 dan's prowess with life and death.
I think she won handily.
In the end, all this was captured.
She won by resignation.
Yamashita Keigo 9 dan, thank you very much.
Thank you.
Today's result, Suzuki Ayumi 7 dan won by resignation.
She moves on to the second round.
Hope you enjoyed today's match. Goodbye.
Today "My Move" was move 70: the diagonal attachment (kosumitsuke).
Looking at the flow of the game so far...
White made a mistake in the upper right corner.
I thought that this game would be difficult.
So, I tried to start a fight, and create a complex game.
In response, if Black were to just block...
White blocks here.
White's weak stones in the lower right can connect to White's other weak stones.
This would be a rather long game.
So of course, Black extended to try and fight back.
White played another move.
When I attached here...
Black...
Had Black just played patiently and simply defended, Black would have been able to hang on to the lead.
In the game, Black wanted to press the advantage.
With this move, Black does indeed capture these two stones. However....
White pushes...
Oh, sorry. Before that.
First, peep here.
Because Black's group here is not alive yet...
He has no choice but to come out.
I was able to seal him in here.
The game got to be very interesting from this point.
It was a difficult fight until the very end, but somehow, I managed to win.
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