British Championship

British Go Journal No. 64. [1] March 1985. Page 4.

Game 1

Matthew Macfadyen

Black: Matthew Macfadyen, 6d
White: Terry Stacey, 5d
Time: 3 hours each. Komi 5.5
The game-file in SGF [2] format.

1984 saw Terry Stacey's fifth challenge for the British Championship, but some of his usual tenacity seemed to be missing and he was unable to pick up a single game.

We present all three games in the best of five match, concentrating on the second, in which Terry had his best chances.

Figure 1 (1-54)

Figure 2 (55-110)

• White 58 starts a difficult running fight.
• Black 77: Bad. I should push at 94 first. White has a lot of territory after 78, and Black has no real chance to kill the centre group.
• White 104: Slow, he could play 106 to take sente.

Figure 3 (111-204) White 198 ko at

• White 200 should answer the ko threat - White can easily win this ko since 202 is sente - 199 was one of Black's very few sufficiently large threats. A large exchange follows, but it favours Black.

Figure 4 (205-282) 215 ko at black , 218 ko at 212, 221 ko, 240 ko below 237 at white , 245 ko at 237, 282 connects above 252 at

Black wins by 13.5 points.

The article continues with game 2 on page 5 [3].