UK Beat Ireland

The second match of the B-League season, on 10th November, was against our old friends Ireland. Jun Su played the first game early, on Sunday evening, and won by resignation. The other three games all went our way with two quick resignation and another in Ryan's long game. This win should move the UK towards the top of the league, whereas Ireland remain bottom.

League Page with game records

Jake Game wrote: I was lucky in my game against Karl Irwin. It appears my opponent resigned after surprisingly dying. However, from at least my human point of view, the game could still have been long.

Jun Su wrote about his game: I played black against Philippe Renaut. In the lower left corner my moves 27-31 are unreasonable. However my opponent didn’t manage to grasp the opportunity and played strange move 32. Since then the game was no longer quite so difficult for black.

Ryan Zhang won a nice game by putting great pressure on his opponent, John Courtney, and capitalized on it in John's time trouble.

Jon Diamond wrote about his game: I won this game comfortably, as was to be expected, as Byoung-Ju Lee is a kyu player. He made a small mistake with the cut of move 36, which made the game hard for him as he lost points and made both his groups in the bottom left weak. When I played 63 to capture the left group I was easily ahead, but I was a bit ambitious with 81, which turned into a weak invasion when he played 90. However I did have many resources and cut my way out. I’m not sure whether 117 or 121 were best, but the semeai was always good for me and the tesuji of 141 secured the capture of two stones and his resignation.