Yoshihara Yukari (5p) vs Izawa Akino (3p) — Tokyo Seimitsu Cup Women's Saikyo, 2002

Reading the board

What every overlay on the board means

AI suggestions

Blue dot — best move KataGo's top pick. No number on it. Toggle: AI button (A)

Other candidates Blue is the best move in this position. Green is good, gold is OK. Numbers inside show points difference compared to the blue (best) move. Toggle: AI button (A)

Cyan halo A standout move — the engine's top choice in a spot where it wasn't obvious. Most precise on Study and Deep analysis; on a quick (free) analysis it's a lighter estimate. Toggle: Move animations (in view settings)

Territory & dead groups

Territory tint Faint black or white wash over intersections the engine expects that color to own. Toggle: Territory button under the board Toggle: Territory (in view settings)

Red overlay — groups in danger Stones the engine thinks are at risk of being captured. Toggle: Groups button under the board Toggle: Groups (in view settings)

Dead stones (×) Stones the engine considers dead. Toggle: Groups button under the board Toggle: Groups (in view settings)

Move animations

−7 pts

Score-loss pill Drops in next to a move that lost 5+ points. Orange for mistake, red for blunder. Toggle: Move animations (in view settings)

✦ ✦ ✦ ✦ ✦

Sparkles — set-up move The opponent's next move was a 5+ point mistake. This move probably set it up. Toggle: Move animations (in view settings)

Continuations

Try a line out, move by move

Each tile is a move you could play next. Tap one to play it, and this panel refills with the options that follow. Keep tapping to build a line.

The Variation panel above lists the moves you've played. Tap any of them to rewind there; tap ← Main line to return to the game.
Tap Preview on the current move to lay the whole continuation on the board at once — the AI's best line, or the recorded one if the game has it. Tap again to clear.
Tiles tagged sgf are variations saved in the game record.
Each tile's corner shows how good the move is — from blue (best) through green and yellow to red — the same color it has on the board. The blue-highlighted tile is the AI's top choice.
The move actually played in the game isn't shown here — only the alternatives.

New lines you play here are read to 100 visits — quick, but shallow. A deeper read finds longer, stronger continuations.

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Yoshihara Yukari vs Izawa Akino

4th Women's Saikyo · Round 3 · 2002-10-28

About this tournament

The Tokyo Seimitsu Cup Women's Saikyo was a Japanese women's tournament run by the company Tokyo Seimitsu with the Nihon Ki-in. Founded in 1998, it was played ten times from 1999 to 2008 as a knockout among Japan's leading women players, with a single-game final in every edition but the last, which had a best-of-three final; it ended when the sponsor could no longer carry it on. Shinkai Hiroko and Suzuki Ayumi won it twice each, and Xie Yimin's win in 2006, at 17, made her the youngest woman to win a Japanese title at that time. It is a separate event from the Senko Cup Women's Saikyo, which began in 2015.

Game details

Date: 2002-10-28
Moves: 209
Komi: 5.5
Rules: Japanese (assumed)
Result: B+R
Game record: GoGoD

Ranks at the time of the game

Yoshihara Yukari Black · 5p

Izawa Akino White · 3p

4th Women's Saikyo · Round 3

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