Attack and Sacrifice: Honinbo Dosaku vs. Yasui Santetsu

Attack and Sacrifice: Honinbo Dosaku vs. Yasui Santetsu
Playing with the Black stones, Dosaku plays actively throughout the game, sacrificing locally to control the overall position.
Early in the game Dosaku sacrifices his weakest group with a sequence of kos to take the initiative in the overall position. Later in the game Dosaku continues with forceful attacks to sacrifice small groups while controlling the game and taking profit, ending with a solid lead in territory.
Honinbo Dosaku (1645-1702)was an outstandingly strong player who dominated the Go scene in the 17th century. He is remembered as a theoretician who changed opening theory, but was also extremely strong in tactical fighting. While pro ranks are up to 9-dan, Dosaku has been called a 13-dan because his true strength was never fully tested by his rivals, and seemed to easily give handicaps to the best players of his time.
Yasui Santetsu Ⅱ (1639-1715)was 13 when his father Yasui Santetsu 1 died, and was considered too young to lead the Yasui school. Santetsu had some radical opening ideas that emphasized the center and sides. In a famous game he played the Tengen (center point) as his first move. (See the link!)
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When Dosaku was declared Meijin in 1678, Santetsu became 7-dan, making him one of the top players of his time. He had an interest in astronomy, and revised the Japanese calendar to become the first official astronomer recognized by the Edo government in 1685, and retired as a Go player, changing his name to Shibukawa Shunkai.
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[@sovietblobfish]

truly impressive how black resurrects those dead stones in the middle

[@gabloignon]

Love to watch these old games being played out, it connects us to the roots of Go and I love it.

[@hushvirginia]

What a beautiful and fascinating game. So many strategic sacrifices in the pursuit of control of the board. When I see it played out it makes sense but I can’t fathom being able to see it before hand.

[@MmentoMori]

Thanks for your work Michael. Keep doing it please.

[@hippophile]

Some great tesujis. But the foresight to set up the whole board position to create a "simple" win is breath-taking!
Thank you for showing us this game!

[@Epistemonto]

Excellent game, description, and especially, format.
Domo arigatou gozaimasu!

[@SamuelGrguric]

that b move on the edge of the board (t6?) is haunting
Dosaku has always been my favorite player. thank you for finding time to show us some of his great works ^_^

[@hardikho]

Apologies if this is trivial but I would appreciate a playlist on your channel containing videos like this one, where you simply place the stones.

[@MichaelRedmondsGoTV]

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[@lagazettedesfrancais8155]

Very enjoyable, thank you.

[@MrWiseFalcon]

fantastic

[@Hamsters831]

I can't believe that white lost that huge group in the lower middle in the end..

[@recarsion]

Wait, I thought that lives... The five black stones above it are dead, no?

[@veosotano]

I was saying "oh, so he sacrifices these" all the time, and then "ooh aah that's how" 😍

[@rbpompeu1]

Great! It's inspiring!

[@huangyaotang]

Go ASMR. Awesome

[@ravelite]

Fascinating game, interesting format.

[@ccdemagician2]

hey Michael, can you make a video talking abt your GO equipment? they look very fancy

[@kyuuzoryuusuke]

Yes, I'd love to see that too :)

[@benjaminschooley3108]

It's surprising to me by when I play games with sound off I play about 1 rank weaker.

[@marcelocarpinetti9184]

This games are so different from today's Go. They look to me so free and fluid (or something else I can't explain what it is). I always wonder if I could play like this in view of today's komi factor.

[@respatify]

did Sai play this game? 😁

[@fredorosny]

Very nice game, do you still still study very old games? What is your favorite tsumego books?

[@blblblblblbl7505]

I'm so bad at counting, I can't really tell how far black is ahead ...

[@johnkerpan7735]

It looks like Black has about 95 and White about 75. There would have been no komi, and maybe there is aji in the top right, but it looks pretty secure. White is likely to gain a little more in the endgame because Black's group in the left/middle is weakest, but I cannot imagine White can get 20 points more than Black in the endgame.

[@akhilsainayudu794]

Noice

[@justin9202]

White played a lil too slowly in the start IMO,
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[@spasegeek9214]

And black let them. One always mentions one of but the other

[@HH-jk8hi]

wow white is getting whooped

[@therabak5803]

excellent, though at times it seems like you're trying too hard with the stones

[@skylounge5868]

Who asked

[@therabak5803]

@@skylounge5868 He who enables comments on his uploads