MilanMilan also returns?
For a while MilanMilan was the highest rated player on KGS, there were speculations that he is Peter Liu, a Chinese 2p. However, after a period of relative inactivity in the summer, he is no longer #1. In this game he returns to play bigbadwolf, who is Andy Liu, the recent hero of the NAIM (defeating 3 professionals in a row).
The opening begins relatively normally, with Black creating a big moyo on the bottom in a quasi-Kobayashi style. White invades immediately with 16. I am not strong enough to offer much analysis on the fight, the result is Black getting a fairly big corner by capturing 2 stones and White capturing a stone in the center and becoming very thick. Personally I think White is better off. Black creates a moyo on top with 43 and 45, but White invades immediately once again, at 3-3. Black takes thickness in gote. However, I feel that White 62 is too slow. If it were played F17 or C14 instead, I think it would be really hard for Black to win the game. Instead, Black gets to approach and limit the corner. When White takes the last big point at 70, Black begins attacks the corner with 71. White dodges in sente up to 77, however this leaves Black's group absolutely alive in a big way, whereas his own group can still be attacked. White overplays big time with 80. Black's clever responses of 81 through 91 kills White's bottom group. Immediately, the game is favorable for Black. White creates a center moyo with 96 through 108, but Black is able to reduce from two sides. I do not see really any points of importance in the yose, it seems fairly normal though perhaps White missed a winning chance there. In any case, White resigns shortly before the yose is finished. At that point, if my calculations are correction, Black would win by 3.5 points.
From this game, it is easy to see how a single overplay and easily ruin an otherwise won game.
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