Two interesting games

There are two interesting games from ongoing tournaments on LitteGolem.

Full Board

This game was played in 10th WYPS championship between JeanHerbert and chianti. Game was played to last stone and last 13 moves were atari moves. There is final position:


The win with a few stones

Second game is played in 7th WYPS championship on small board. Game is played between gpallis and Michal Piszczalka. gpallis is a new champion on small board and this interesting games is his only lost. In this position:

gpallis plays excellent move REFILTER.



White is not only connected, but there is only one free field in corner, very distant from important letter R. But Michal Piszczalka found right solution.



In final position has black only 9 stones against 19 white's stones. But it is enough to be connected.