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Handicap Games from Argentina

The Argentine Go Association has

section for training young players 3 7
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under the guidance of Mr. Tadashi
Kado, amateur 3-Dan. Mr. Kado´s 4 6 8
students range from high scool to 5
university students, but while the
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period they have been learning Go
varies, the longest is barely three
1
years.
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Mr. Ernesto Cepeda of the 11

Association sent records of 15

games wich Mr. Kado played in Fig.1
early 1973 with young players to us,
with a request for comment. “Go
Review” is happy to comply and we
asked Mr. Kazuo Sato, 4-Dan, a
teaching professional, to look at the
games. Unfortunately, because of
limitations of space, we can only
present the opening sections of
three games in this issue.
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Game 1. 5 stones: Mr. Cepeda

A 1
Mr. Cepeda, who collected these
games together, is a 5th year Dia.1
student at the Buenos Aires
Technical College. He began
playing Go in March, 1972.

Fig.1, Dia.1.
Black `B´in this diagram is directed
only towards defence. Black should
always look for a move which
combines defence with attack. A
play at `A´ instead of `B´is a must 9 11
5 6 12
for this situation. The best approach 1 4
is to try and make territory by 7 2 3
10 8
means of attacking moves, one
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should not play moves whose function is limited solely to making

territory.

Game 2. 4 stones: Mr. Lindenbaum

Mr. Lindenbaum started learning Go about a year earlier than his

fellow students. He took. 5th place
in the first section of the national 3 7
championship in 1972. He was 9
also 4th in the finals of the Marco 4 8
Polo Tournament.
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For the joseki from White 13 to 10

Black 24, refer to Dia. 1.

In the game, Black played 22 at 1
21 23 11
the wrong point. 17 18 A
This way of capturing is not good, 2 13 16 24 12
22 19 14 15 6
because a subsequent White 20
forcing Black to capture at `B´. For
it easier to play an uchikomi Dia.1

(invasion) at 1, because he is able

to get watari underneath at `C´.
Black 24. This move is bad. Joseki
calls for one point jump at 12 in
1
Dia. 1. B A C
The reason isthat Black will get a
very cramped shape if White plays Dia. 2
a tsuke (attachment play) on top of
24 in the actual game.

Game 3. 7 stones: Mr. Fernando 6 1 39 25 23 3

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43 44
47
46
5 38 24 22 37 51 52
41 40 36 29 30 50
Mr. Fernando Aguilar, aged 14, is a 2 42 19 12 31 4
18 20 14 33 32 34 48 53
high school student. He began to play 13 35 11 49 27

Go in April 1972. He has performed 17

15 28
well in a number of handicap
tournaments, including 1st place in the
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2nd section of the 1973 national 8 26 10 64

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championship. He also won the Marco 54 7
21
9
62 63
60 56 55
Polo tournament witout a loss. 58 57 59

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Black 6. The value of this move is

6
small one. White has defended this
position at the top with 5.
Black should rather direct his attention
to such points as `A´ and `B´in Dia. 1.
Dia. 2. It would be more efficient for
Black to make a play at `A´, for this
point is not only profitable from the
territorial point of view, but also is A
B
useful for aiming at an invasion at `B´.
Black´s group of stones in the upper
Dia. 1
right corner met an infamous death
wich he naturally could have
avoided if only he had followed A
B 4 1 3
either of sequences in Dia. 3 and 2
9
4. 8 10
The sequence Fernando has
5 7 11
folloewd in the lower right corner is Dia. 2 6
one which can´t be seen in Japan.
He should learn the joseki in Dia.
5. This gives a reasonable result Dia. 4
and is widely used in Japan. 1
108
12 11 9 7

6 2 1
4 3 5

Dia. 3 Dia. 5