Andos WC 1999 games 五子棋比赛技巧 知识.docVIP

My Games in The World Championship ‘99 By Ando Meritee Meritee – Nishizono, 1:0, 47, D11 The game with Nishizono was a big question for me because I had never played with him before. Previously, we had just heard about each other, but not played, so the game was quite nervous therefore. The opening was played quite fast. I had decided to play as black in this tournament as many times as possible because previously people knew Meritee likes to play as white, so I had to change my tactics to surprise my opponents. As a result, I played 10 times as black and once as white in WC’99. The 14th move surprised me. I thought people had given up playing this because black advantage is too obvious there. Anyway, I was a bit concerned about his possible surprises. I continued standard pattern up to 25. The 26th move should not be good according to my old analysis. So I replied 27 immediately. The 28th move was a big surprise to me, especially because he played it so fast. At first I thought it was his home analysis, so I took a long time to check the variants. But soon I realised the disadvantage of that 28th move – although it is sharp move and makes promising position for white above, the key point 38 will remain open and therefore black will have one extra open line on the right side. So, whenever white plays at 38 then the 39-point will give black winning power on the left side. In this game, black even didn’t need the left side win – the right side happened to be powerful enough. Therefore, I think that 26-38 is much better – it will block the open diagonal line towards right side without giving winning power to black on the left. Kozhin – Meritee, 0:1, 26, D3 This was my only game as white and it happened to be so because Kozhin changed the color in the d3 opening that I had set. As I had laptop PC with renju database with me in Beijing, I used special preparation for every opponent by studying their old games. In the database I had seen Kozhin playing this position once