Background

One of the more active players on Tygem goes by the name, "tryortry".  I had always been curious who tryortry 9d was, but recently discovered that Alex had already revealed his identity (http://gosensations.com/index.php?id=2&server_id=4&new_id=444). 

Other online sources also confirm that tryortry is likely to be Tan Xiao 4p, a 16 year old Chinese professional player.  Tan Xiao became shodan at a pretty early age - 11 years old.  You can see his player profile here: http://igo.web.infoseek.co.jp/cgi-bin/namec/data/c0340.htm (Note: You may have to adjust the webpage encoding to something like "Shift JIS", for example, to view the Japanese text properly.).

White seemed to have developed quickly this game, inciting black to invade at J3.  Though white had to spend a couple of moves killing the invading black stones, white overcame black in the end.

One move that I found to be rather clever in this game was move 142 by white at O10.  Had I been playing, I would have probably though of the stones to be dead.  However, if black connects at O11, then white can get L7 in sente to attack the stones at J8, and this seemed pretty sneaky to me.  Perhaps a stronger player could find an even better sequence!  In any event, the actual game resulted in white being able to connect his stones at O11, thereby saving a lot of points.  

This is a good example of how "sacrificed stones" can come back to life.

Last 20 Games

tryortry 9d: 12 - 8

강꼴통(P)/touteng(P) 9d: 10 - 10

Ranking Points

tryortry 9d: 38210

강꼴통(P)/touteng(P) 9d: 34986

Game Stats

tryortry 9d: 529 - 313 [9d] | 1156 - 676

강꼴통(P)/touteng(P) 9d: 27 - 19 [9d] | 27 - 19