This game showed the superb ability of Shusaku is attacking, sense of balance and flexibility. From the very beginning, black built thickness over left top corner and push White groups towrds to the left edge and top edge. This thickness later on joined force with Black's left bottom group in attacking White's left center group and bottom group-White kind of sacrificed the left center group in order to kill Black's right bottom corner-but Black got a large territory around lower center in one hand, on the other hand White's left corner group became weaker, to make it even worse for White the right bottom Black corner is not that a clean kill-this provided black with much needed ko threats when the fight in the center turned into a ko fight...Over the ko fight, Black let White connect home but increased its center territory significantly. Desparately to catch up in yose, White took Black's right top corner, but pretty much gave up the center top territory in the process-talk about "much ado about nothing"!
Definition of a winner in Go battle? firstly is overall thickness, your opponent can do nothing to you unless you donate something; secondly, if your opponent kills, he would rather not kill; thirdly, when your opponent lives/escapes, he would rather ..... then you have reached a new level.
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