So, I thought I'd play a game against LZ, and of course I won handily. After about 40 moves my lead was so crushing that I decided to stop playing and analyse where it had already gone wrong. Oh, no, wait, _I_ was Black.... in seriousness, I read Sol's post about all sorts of craziness on 9x9 (on the GoQuest thread) that flies in the face of 19x19 conventions. I'm actually beginning to think that there's a lot to be said for flying in the face of 19x19 conventions on 19x19. This is the start of the game:
?????? When I was learning go, that
and 
would have received "that look" from the people patiently trying to get me to understand big board thinking, yet to LZ it seems simply the forcing nature has immense value. I wonder if those will end up being "overplay" when LZ version 213.2 is widely acknowledged as the best Go engine ever, but in the meantime this approach feels really spectacular. I could post more of this game if people want, but I did end up feeling embarrassingly behind after another 30 or so moves. Obviously knowing how to make use of the moves is the key behind the whole thing, but I would never have considered making the 8-9 trade, and I wouldn't have considered playing in the lower right starting with 10
trade and the sequence after 
like this?
there, but yeah, that was a better