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White: Julian Vogel    Black: Thierry Pertuy
twixt.mc.2011.feb.1.3 (LG) | This game (LG) | Download JTwixt file
On 2011-02-21 at 23:18, Thierry Pertuy (info) said:
I played hawfully in this game, even starting on the bad side (l13 instead of j15 !!!), and the following moves were very bad too... Some say you learn more from your defeats than from your victories...
Why I'm posting this game is that I wonder how to attack the j8+j13 pattern after 11.k19. I feel doom because I cannot see how to do...
Post sriptum : If such a post is not welcome, please tell me !

On 2011-02-22 at 00:01, Alan Hensel (info) said:
This kind of post is of course welcome!

The 0-5 gap is typically attacked in the middle, on the weaker side, so |12.j10. It still doesn't look like a winning board position, but it does look more difficult. Here's a possible line from that: 13.k11 14.k8 15.l7 16.i8 17.n8 18.l11 19.n12 20.l15 21.m14 22.j19 23.n16. Yeah, doom.

The other 0-5 gap strategy is to get a downstream peg in. Of course, you have to find some way to do it for free (that is, while making some other threat that he must respond to or lose immediately). I don't see how to do that in this game, but if you actually did it, it might look something like this: |12.h8 (silly 13.f15 move) 14.j12 15.i11 16.i10. |12.h9 is an alternative.

On 2011-02-23 at 19:38, Thierry Pertuy (info) said:
Thanks a lot for your comment. It helps !
By the way, I would find very usefull some discussions about standard patterns just like : 2-5 gap, 4-5 gap, double 3-3 gap and so on. Maybe will try to write something twixt.wetpaint.com the day I feel confident enough in my play.

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