Analysis: Tak Open Finals R1: applemonkeyman vs SultanPepper (1/2)

Note: The analysis and positions described are for the 6x6 game. Extend the principles and ideas to the 5x5 and the 8x8 at your own risk...

The next match in the Tak Open finals that I'll be looking at is the first game between applemonkeyman (white) and SultanPepper (black):

Analysis: Tak Open Finals R1: Gerrek v Simmon (2/2)

Note: The analysis and positions described are for the 6x6 game. Extend the principles and ideas to the 5x5 and the 8x8 at your own risk...

The next game in this series is the second in the match between Simmon and Gerrek, this time with Gerrek as white and Simmon as black:

Analysis: Tak Open Finals R1: Simmon vs Gerrek (1/2)

Note: The analysis and positions described are for the 6x6 game. Extend the principles and ideas to the 5x5 and the 8x8 at your own risk...

The number of games in the tournament is quite massive, so with the current state of the tournament, I am shifting focus to comment the Finals matches. Granted, this still will wind up with 14 matches (for 28 games) to comment, which is still quite a bit. As such, if anyone wants to pitch in their own comments, feel free to get in contact with me and I'll set you up with a game not currently being processed.

To kick this off, I will be looking at the first game between Simmon (white) and Gerrek (black):

Game Analysis: Novice and Experienced play on the corner

Note: The analysis and positions described are for the 5x5 game. Extend the principles and ideas to the 6x6 and the 8x8 at your own risk...

In the last few posts, I discussed some theory in regards to the Adjacent Corner Opening in response to the AB line. In this post, I want to take a look at an actual game that was played on this line. My hope is that by looking at player moves, it'll be easier to see some of the impact of the choices of certain moves and how they pan out to the later game.

The game I want to discuss in this post is between two humans, a novice (white) and an experienced player (black). I would recommend following through the game as I discuss the moves in the viewer below or at the following link:  Novice-Experienced Game.