UK Beat Spain to Stay Top

The fourth match of the season was against Spain. Bruno, Scott and Des won, but Toby lost, meaning the team again won 3-1. This cemented their lead at the top of C-League.

League Page with game records

Bruno Poltronieri wrote: I won my game by 17.5 against Ignacio Cernuda. I was slightly ahead after the opening after the result on the bottom side, but started a questionable fight on the left. My opponent played some equally questionable moves and we came out of it roughly even. I then gained my lead gradually in the endgame.

Scott Cobbold wrote of his game against Paco de la Banda: At the start there was quite a complicated fight, however I came out better. In the following part of the game he then overplayed a lot, first dying in my corner and then in his own corner, before continuing on for over 100 moves despite being over 50 points behind.

Des Cann wrote about his game: Bit Rusty. My opponent, Jesus Roldan, started our game with completely the wrong time limit. I spotted komi was wrong, but played for twenty minutes before I twigged it shouldn't be a ten minute game. However he didn't know the crosscut tesuji! So I got a big advantage early and despite a few mistakes (according to AI) nothing actually went seriously wrong. I let him have a couple of stones in the centre, but got a seventy point left side. He then started playing like an old fashioned two dan hacking away in a pointless way when it was far too late. He eventually resigned.

Toby Manning wrote about his game with Enrique Jimenez: Afraid I lost. A large-scale fight developed, but I played a few inaccuracies then misread some aji (losing a few stones, nothing serious), but all the time I was getting behind - I then had to win the fight to have a chance. He then overplayed, started an unnecessary ko but I misread his ko threat - thought I had a good counter, wrong - and it was curtains.