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(Message started by: ginrunner on Feb 26^th, 2011, 6:15pm)

Title: Marwin vs ginrunner
Post by ginrunner on Feb 26^th, 2011, 6:15pm

http://arimaa.com/arimaa/games/jsShowGame.cgi?gid=173669&s=w

I am completely at a loss here. I am not entirely sure where I went wrong. 40s was definitely a mistake (I have been trying to figure out if I was a dead duck by then or if that is what killed me) but what else could I have done there? I feel like there is an obvious flaw in my game that I can't find. I can find multiple lines that would have been better after the fact but for some odd reason those lines don't even begin to occur to me during the game.

Title: Re: Marwin vs ginrunner
Post by omar on Mar 4^th, 2011, 12:00am

On 20s I might have used two steps to get the dog on g3. On 35s elephant to g3 and rabbit to h4 looks pretty good.

You played very good though and it was a very close game.

Title: Re: Marwin vs ginrunner
Post by chessandgo on Mar 6^th, 2011, 8:49am

wow, the position on 40s is quite wild. Materially I feel it might be kind of even. Your position is unbalanced with no small piece in the west, but you have an advanced rabbit, so I'd think it's a close game.

You'll have to switch to the eastern wing with your elephant at some point, but given the sparsity of your goal defense you can do that only if you have a very serious goal threat (or if you replace your elephant wih a cat for example).

I'd consider 40s rh4s dg5es rh3s, Gold can't pull the rabbit to g2, otherwise your elephant is able to switch over with a strong goal in 1 threat. When Gold defends, you can play something like cf5ww x x, and then replace your elephant with your cat on the next move. If the rabbit advance allows gold to capture too quicklly, then 40s cf5ww x x looks reasonable. But I can't see a good way for Gold to threaten capture, for example 41g Cg3s Hf4e Hg4n dh4w should not be reasonable, as you can answer 41s rf7s cf5s rf6s dg4s, and actually Gold is much more threatened than silver in the east.