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	Usually the stones of professionals don't die without having served some purpose. Exquisite examples can be seen in the furikawari and sacrifice categories. But also professionals are only human and sometimes stones die without a purpose. This category shows some extreme examples featuring maybe the most successful attacking to kill player of the past century Kato Masao.	advertisements Mahjong Solitaire: GameTop.com



	The Games

event	black	white	date	result	#mn	game
Korean Team Championship	Yun SeungHyeon	Hong SungJi	2007-07-06	R	210

Want to see some more big kills? In this game, played in the famous Korean league white goes after a large centre group. Will he succeed?

event	black	white	date	result	#mn	game
NHK Cup	Yoda Norimoto	Cho Chikun	2007-02-12	R	226

The NHK Cup (lightning Go) always features noteworthy games. See for example the Ko section in this series.

(Juan Carlos Carvajal B.)

event	black	white	date	result	#mn	game
Oza tournament	O Meien	Cho U	2003-10-30	R	167

This is an example of one player (Cho U) getting himself into a tight spot and the other (O Meien) blocking him doggedly at every step to result in a very large kill.

(Nathan Austin)

event	black	white	date	result	#mn	game
Honinbo tournament	Fujisawa Hosai	Kato Masao	1968-11-13,14	R	174

Kato killing a group of some 25 stones and picking up another 20 stone group in ko.

event	black	white	date	result	#mn	game
Honinbo tournament	Kato Masao	Takemiya Masaki	1977-05-09,10	R	165

In this game Kato sets a new record by killing a group of over 40 stones.

event	black	white	date	result	#mn	game
Oza tournament	Kato Masao	Rin Kaiho	1986-10-16	R	209

Kato Masao decides the game by a delicate move which picks up a group of stones of the opponent.

event	black	white	date	result	#mn	game
Women's Meijin	Koyama Terumi	Kobayashi Izumi	2005-02-24	R	226

In a game not completely going her way out of the blue Kobayashi Izumi manages to kill a huge group of her opponent Koyama Terumi. In the end it didn't help her to defend the title which she lost by 2-1.

(David)



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