From: jlzhong@vision.csl.uiuc.edu (Jialin Zhong)
Newsgroups: rec.games.go
Subject: A Famous Ancient Japanese Go Game (The Blood Spiting Game)
Date: 26 Aug 1992 02:45:22 GMT
Organization: Center for Reliable and High-Performance Computing, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
NNTP-Posting-Host: vision.csl.uiuc.edu

Hi Guys, several reasons for me to post this game. No. 1, zhuge 
has posted some ancient Chinese games (Danghu series) which inspired 
me to post a Japanese game to compare with. No. 2, it seems that most
articles in rec.games.go these days are nor related to Go at all. We need 
to make some noise to let people know that Go is the game here. No. 3, 
I want to test smartgo program. I input this game by smartgo on a Macintosh. 
You can read this game by smartgo or mgt. Try it, tell me if it works. No. 4,
I want to use the story of this game to warn people the serious effect of
playing Go. :-)

Hit n now if you are a sentimental person.


Background of this game. This game played in 1831. The white is Meijin 
and Haninbo 12 (I can't translate his name into English). The black 
is a 7d from another Go family. The game was played before Danghu games.
Since players from other Families wanted to overthrow the Meijin, it was 
a must win situation for both. Surely, this is an important game, and both 
players played excellently. The game ended when the player using black spitted 
blood over the Go board. He died within a month.

Like zhuge, I want to dedicate my typing in of this game to bbbb and shylock.
Both of them are gone from igs, but without them, I cannot post this game
here.


zhong

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(;GM[1]BS[0]WS[0]BL[1800.0]WL[1800.0]SZ[19]FF[3]
(;B[cp];W[pq];B[qd];W[ed];B[oc];W[eq];B[qo];W[qk];B[qi];W[op]
;B[iq];W[dn]C[this move of white starts from this period of time];B[ep];W[dp];B[do];W[dq];B[co];W[eo];B[fp];W[cq]
;B[bq];W[br];B[cm];W[gr];B[hp];W[en];B[bp];W[ck]C[w28 is very agressive.];B[dl];W[dk]
;B[el];W[gn];B[cr]C[b 33 is tesuji.]
(;W[dr];B[bs]
(;W[fq];B[go];W[ar];B[hn];W[gm];B[hm];W[gl];B[ek]
(;W[hl];B[di]C[b looks better];W[io];B[ho];W[fo];B[ch];W[cd];B[lq];W[pn];B[gc]
;W[qn];B[dc];W[cc];B[ec];W[cf];B[il]C[end of first day.];W[gp]
(;B[nq]C[b 61 is small];W[ic];B[fd];W[lc];B[bg];W[bf];B[af]C[obviousely a sente but...];W[bi]C[one of three excellent moves by white.
]
(;B[dj]C[b has to do this otherwise...];W[eh]C[the second excellent move by white]
(;B[fj]C[now w left upper corner lives];W[qg]C[the game turns around.];B[oi];W[qe];B[pd];W[nf];B[ok];W[pk];B[ol];W[pj]C[the last excellent move by white.
]

(;B[rn];W[rm];B[qq];W[qr];B[rr];W[qp];B[rq];W[pr];B[rp];W[po]
;B[pp];W[mp];B[qm];W[pm];B[np];W[mq];B[mo];W[lp];B[lo]C[end of second day];W[kp]
;B[no];W[nr]
(;)
(;B[or];W[qp];B[mr];W[ro];B[pi];W[lr];B[ns];W[ip];B[jr];W[hq]
;B[jn];W[ko];B[kq];W[kn];B[jm];W[km];B[ik];W[mk];B[mm];W[ir]
;B[jq];W[kk];B[mi];W[nm];B[ml];W[ki];B[lj];W[lk];B[kj];W[jj]
;B[kl];W[ll];B[lm];W[oj];B[mg];W[jl];B[jk];W[nj];B[ni];W[im]
;B[in];W[jo];B[kl];W[js];B[ks];W[jl];B[im];W[is];B[kl];W[ei]
;B[ej];W[jl];B[hr];W[hs];B[kl];W[cn];B[bn];W[jl];B[gs];W[fs]
;B[kl];W[hi];B[ij];W[jl];B[ls];W[ji];B[hj];W[oe];B[kg];W[jg]
;B[gi];W[nc];B[jf];W[nb];B[re];W[if];B[je];W[hd];B[fe];W[gf]
;B[ff];W[fg];B[gg];W[gh];B[hg];W[fi];B[gj];W[ig];B[hh];W[hf]
;B[ii];W[rf];B[pe];W[pf];B[le];W[kd];B[ad];W[kh];B[qf];W[ef]
;B[de];W[qe];B[ld];W[lg];B[kc];W[jd];B[qf];W[db];B[eb];W[qe]
;B[jb];W[od];B[ib];W[mf];B[qf];W[jp];B[kr];W[qe];B[lf];W[kf]
;B[qf];W[hc];B[qe];W[hb];B[pg];W[og]TR[nf];B[of];W[cg];B[bh];W[pf]
;B[ph];W[bb];B[da];W[cb];B[fh];W[ac];B[eg];W[bd];B[ob];W[oa]
;B[kl];W[mh];B[rj];W[jl]))
(;B[oj];W[pi];B[mn]C[b should play patiently like this]))
(;B[oi];W[bm];B[bl];W[cl];B[bn];W[bk];B[am];W[ej]C[w collaps]))
(;B[bh])
(;B[oi];W[bh];B[cg];W[dj];B[ej];W[ci];B[eh];W[bl]C[w lives,]))
(;B[fd]C[this is much better])
(;B[oi]C[b can play]))
(;W[bk]C[w should play like this.];B[bm];W[hl];B[di];W[ch]))
(;W[ar];B[ds]C[a ko]))
(;W[cs];B[fr]))
(;B[ci])
(;B[se]))
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