"RoseDuke" beats yet another professional
Victor
Chow ("RoseDuke" on KGS), the legendary South African amateur who
defeated two Japanese pros (Yahata Koichi 6p and Sasaki Tsuyoshi 5p) in a row
in the IGS World Rapid Championship (2005), hadn't played any ranked game on
KGS against high dans since September.
Finally
today he decided to put up a great show by playing the KGS-superstar
"smartrobot" (Chinese pro, Jin Jing 2p) with his unusually aggressive
style.
R14
(move 10) is probably an overplay since Black's corner is strong (White O15 was
honte), but that move shows Victor Chow's style - he likes to fight a lot, and
he is good at it. That is one of the reasons why 'RoseDuke''s games attract so
many spectators (this game had over 500 observers): his games are always very
exciting!
In
the end, "smartrobot" resigned as he was about 10 points behind.
After the game, Jin said that Black lost due to a "misjudge" in the
middle-game.
One
thing is certain: even Chinese pros need to look out for Victor Chow!
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