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> If you are playing with a handicap, you have to make overplays Some players may feel they have to, but others manage to refrain from making overplays, and ju
by tromp 4y ago
> If you are playing with a handicap, you have to make overplays
Some players may feel they have to, but others manage to refrain from making overplays, and just keep playing moves they consider objectively best, patiently waiting for their weaker opponent to make big mistakes. Usually such patience does get rewarded.
- vintermann 4y agoFor small handicaps, maybe you can see it that way. But it's harder to call a move "objectively best" when you're technically in a dead lost position.
- tromp 4y agoWith objectively best I refer to maximizing territory. A much stronger player of course realizes they're in a technically lost position throughout most of the game, but that doesn't make resigning objectively best.