After 5.p9 I feared n10 & m12 to connect p9 to k13. I haven't yet had understood that letting white a straight path in the middle of the board was a very serious threat... and actually I feel it as being a huge (if not decisive) advantage toward victory.
So I played 6.m12, letting David to play 7.r14 which drived me to an even worse situation.
Then I played 8r11, which was very stupid but I cannot see a way to attack such a 2-5 connection where both pegs are free of any threat. So maybe should I have played p7, or q5 ?
Anyway, at this point I felt the game was over for me.
...and after 11.p13, I cannot see how this is possible to stop white. I feel the game is over, but I would be interested to know if other agree...
...but then... what about if 7.m12, 8.k17 ans 9.h16 ?
...and coming back to my initial comment, do you think the game can me still won by black after 9.r10 ? After 11.p13 ?
It looks completely hopeless to me after |11.p13. |9.r10 could be met with some resistance - maybe 10.q18, but it still looks like White has the upper hand.
I think it really does go back to the opening moves. I have seen intermediate players make this same mistake over and over again, so I guess it works at the intermediate level well enough. But if (at |5.p9) you imagine the k13, k8, and p9 pegs as the 3 corners of an almost-square quadrilateral, your |6.m12 is inside the box. You should think outside the box! Continuing the box, such as with |6.p14, would not be very good because k13 already blocks its path to the left. David's suggested |6.o17 looks good to me.
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2011-02-12 at 19:33,
Thierry Pertuy
said:
Hi Alan. Thanks for the comment. Very usefull to me, really !... Will try to keep this in mind in the future...
...and by the way, congratulations for this site. I just discover it (I'm quite new to Twixt) and it's very handy !
So I played 6.m12, letting David to play 7.r14 which drived me to an even worse situation.
Then I played 8r11, which was very stupid but I cannot see a way to attack such a 2-5 connection where both pegs are free of any threat. So maybe should I have played p7, or q5 ?
Anyway, at this point I felt the game was over for me.
...and after 11.p13, I cannot see how this is possible to stop white. I feel the game is over, but I would be interested to know if other agree...
...and coming back to my initial comment, do you think the game can me still won by black after 9.r10 ? After 11.p13 ?
It looks completely hopeless to me after |11.p13. |9.r10 could be met with some resistance - maybe 10.q18, but it still looks like White has the upper hand.
I think it really does go back to the opening moves. I have seen intermediate players make this same mistake over and over again, so I guess it works at the intermediate level well enough. But if (at |5.p9) you imagine the k13, k8, and p9 pegs as the 3 corners of an almost-square quadrilateral, your |6.m12 is inside the box. You should think outside the box! Continuing the box, such as with |6.p14, would not be very good because k13 already blocks its path to the left. David's suggested |6.o17 looks good to me.
...and by the way, congratulations for this site. I just discover it (I'm quite new to Twixt) and it's very handy !