Dear all C6 players:

Year 2006 is the first year we have the Connect6 games on Little Golem. (Thanks to Richard, even though there was a big crash and further improvements can be made here.) On the last day of Year 2006, maybe we can retrospect all these C6 games you have played and recommend noteworthy games for all others to take a look. By “noteworthy”, I mean games which contain good moves / tactics worth of recommending, either you won or lost. By doing so, we may then look and learn good tactics from those games (and don’t have to look at all the games). You can recommend games you played or games played by others. Just post the game # or a link to the game(s) you recommend. I know some of you may disagree with this idea. Come on, we can learn from each other. So, let’s do it.

Let me start with listing below “noteworthy” games:

Game#597229 – Black’s Move 13 is the key - Black didn’t try to block White’s two “2”s; instead made an open-ended “3”.

Game#547004 – Andrey captured my “I-thought-it-was-a-good-move” mistake and made a winning move (Black has 1 more “3” than White.)

Game#613877 – White made a wonderful move on Move 22 (p12), leading to Move 24 which contains a very obscure winning chance.

Game#564937 – Black made a series of open-ended “3”s (Move 7, 11, 13), leading to Move 15 which is the winning move.

here are 2 positions which show that having a possibility of making open four with one stone doesn't always mean that you have an easy win.

http://www.littlegolem.net/jsp/game/game.jsp?gid=579630&nmove=14

http://www.littlegolem.net/jsp/game/game.jsp?gid=593993&nmove=14

If I'm in such position it always makes me angry ;)

nice vcf(?)

http://www.littlegolem.net/jsp/game/game.jsp?gid=593988&nmove=35

edge effect, shift board one stone left and black attack is dominating

http://www.littlegolem.net/jsp/game/game.jsp?gid=597455&nmove=13

GOOD! The more, the batter! and i will try to search some ^_

#606575 - I decided to try gomoku-like space-move in move #25 and succeed.

#612427 - Attacking from move #13, typical example of win for begginers.

#612432 - Move #45 was meant to prepare board for other win but move #47 were luckily found by me later (o12). If I would attack before there would be a cut. Suczkins didn't saw any danger in south-east part of board and I won : )

599452 - I learned very much while analysing this game (one of first that made me think for long while searching for a win). Watch closely moves #26 and #27. Move #26 was not winning for me but I didn't find any better. But if black put stone at o6 instead of p6 I wouldn't win that!

624499 - Best ranked playerd that I've beaten so far. I were scared by move #14 („no way to block this”, I tough) but I searched for attack and won (moves #15 and later).

That were some brillant games that You posted, I hope my ones were not boring for You : )

In the “connect6.ch.2.1.1”, there are two games in different sides, one is aggressive, and the other is defensive, but what make me surprise is both of them are so wonderful!

In the “connect6.ch.2.1.1”, there are two games in different sides, one is aggressive, and the other is defensive, but what make me surprise is both of them are so wonderful!

In the “connect6.ch.2.1.1”, there are two games in different sides, one is aggressive, and the other is defensive, but what make me surprise is both of them are so wonderful!

In the “connect6.ch.2.1.1”, there are two games in different sides, one is aggressive, and the other is defensive, but what make me surprise is both of them are so wonderful!

In the “connect6.ch.2.1.1”, there are two games in different sides, one is aggressive, and the other is defensive, but what make me surprise is both of them are so wonderful!

the aggressive C6 is: #597239 by “euhuang” and “thomas”

the defensive C6 is: #597267 by “Andrey” and “Marsh Song”

also these:

597233 by “Andrey” and “Patriot”

597245 by “euhuang” and “Marsh Song”

597237 by “Marsh Song” and “Patriot”

My game in 2d c6 champ against Marsh Song was not defensive as richu333 said. I was in hard situation, the only way i could win Champ according to current standings and current game positions(f.e. at that moment i could bet that Marsh would easily beat Patriot, he had so strong position!) was way by beating Marsh.

I played this game on victory. But Marsh Song did very good. What only costs this move Very strong defensive move

This is also nice and strong move 12th move

After that i was trying to gain advantage on some area of the board. Since all attempts by putting 2 stones close to each other(on 1 area) could be easy blocked i started moving distributing stones like this

And next moves till 29 was my attempts to gain advantage. But no mistakes from Marsh. It was alredy easy to block.

And after 30th move it was easy draw game.

so good a game and so good a comment!

who knows Marsh Song? introduce to us,, please…

During the game #597267 against Andrey my situation was very hard. Andrey hold an initiative. After j7 at move 23 black has the threat to win via m4, therefore I was needed to play into m4 (or to that area). After this black had the opportunity to attack h5g4 at moves 25 or 27. I hoped to defend by i6h4 but I don't sure completely. Note that here in some variants of straight attack (f7e8, f8g8, e6d5, etc.) only counter-four i6-i7-i8-i10 allows to defend, the white's three h4-i4-m4 is very helpful too for counter-threats.

My best attack at LG was in the game #546996 against Infinity in connect6.ch.1.1.1. Unfortunately, the text of this game was lost at server after the crash. I give the text of this game below. I take a pride in the development of my attack beginning with the 10th move.

connect6.ch.1.1.1 (before the server crash)

546996 Infinity - Marsh Song

1.j10 2.k11l9 3.k10l10 4.m10j8 5.k8n9 6.i10n8 7.h9m7 8.i11k6 9.i12i6 10.k13m11 11.j12m13 12.j14l12 13.i15n10 14.k14n11 15.k12l11 16.i14h14 17.g14l14 18.h13o12 19.p13h12 20.g12f11 21.e10j15 22.g11h11 23.j11e11 24.f13e14 25.j9d15 26.e13g13 27.resign

Good sharing. I hereby re-create this Game#546996 txt (same when you click on LG game “txt”) below. For those who use CHY's board analyzer, you can cut and paste below whole paragraph into this analyzer's input area and then choose “LG(Little Golem) format” and enter to see the game board.

(;FF[4]EV[connect6.ch.1.1.1]PB[Infinity]PW[Marsh Song]SO[http://www.littlegolem.com];B[j10];W[k11l9];B[k10l10];W[m10j8];B[k8n9];W[i10n8];B[h9m7];W[i11k6];B[i12i6];W[k13m11];B[j12m13];W[j14l12];B[i15n10];W[k14n11];B[k12l11];W[i14h14];B[g14l14];W[h13o12];B[p13h12];W[g12f11];B[e10j15];W[g11h11];B[j11e11];W[f13e14];B[j9d15];W[e13g13])

euhuang, thank you

Here is my very nice win . I like it very much ;-)

To Andrey: The games with defensive or aggressive as I said are only on the surface, it always means connotative opposite. And your game #577691 is interesting.

To Marsh Song: In the game #546996, if the 7th move is L6 I11, maybe it will better?