I'll start this week's post with the announcement that I rose from D2 to D1 in AYD for the final cycle of the current season. The rise was undeserved, but appreciated nonetheless.
My opponent failed to show for the game that was supposed to be played on Friday. As a result I got a forfeit win. That game would have been very high stakes if it had actually been played. If I had won the game I would have gone up to D1. If I had lost the game I would have gone down to D3.
I find myself now in a league with players significantly stronger than myself. This has happened a few times before. Two of the players have come down from C3, and one of them came up with me from D2. The remaining two managed to stay in D1 for this cycle based on their records in the previous cycle.
I'm writing this post after my first game which was played with bugspray who came down from C3. The first game of a new cycle pairs the strongest player with the weakest player. He is the strongest player, and I am clearly the weakest player.
I had the pleasure of playing bugspray at the U.S. Go Congress this year in the Die Hard Tournament where we played an even game. We were both registered as 9k, though he was clearly stronger than I.
Bugspray had a very good Congress, and I suspected I would not win against him in our league game, but I expected to make it past the opening.
Here is where I resigned. I am black. Ordinarily I would have continued to play after the loss of a group in the opening. In this instance I knew there was no chance for me based on the fact that this person is significantly stronger than myself, probably more than his YD rating would suggest.
I hope it wasn't considered unsportsmanlike to resign a game I felt I had no chance to win, but I did not have the spirit to go through the motions.
Enough about that.
Here are the stats for the week:
I spent fewer than thirteen hours on Go Activities last week. I have been taking a break. I don't have a Lesson with Clossius this week coming up, so I took a break.
Only three games were played.
One of the games was a special AYD Game that In-seong arranged for me with a player whose opponent had also not shown up for their AYD Game. We goth go forfeits.
I had a lead in the game but fell victim to a problem that cost me quite a few stones. I considered resigning that game, but it was a far different situation from the game with bugspray.
Something bad had happened, but I was ahead before it did, and my opponent was weaker than myself, so I felt that there was still a chance. I did want to exert a little Mind Control by not rage resigning.
The resignation in the other game had been a Despair Resignation rather than a Rage Resignation.
Here is what happened in the second game. Whoops. Even more of a woops because I could have saved the majority of the stones and maintained my lead.
Big Whoops
It could have gone this way.
I wasn't happy about this loss by 2.5 points, but I got quite a nice review from In-seong, and I took my loss in stride. It was very nice of In-seong to arrange a game for us.
In kindness to those on the Facebook Go Group, I did not post a link there to a recent blog I wrote about Creating Homework on 101 Weiqi.
I'll make it a point to add any mid week blog post links to my usual Weekly Go Activities post to avoid controversy on Facebook about me posting once a week.
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