The Final Boss: Gatekeeper of the most exclusive Go club: 6d-9d speedrun

The 8-Dan Fox player is the final boss of many strong Go player's journey
The highest level at 9dan is the final aspiration of strong Go players.
As such, 9dan is the most exclusive club- the Apex Go player, the Elite of the elite, the creme de la creme.

So the 8dans are the gate-keepers, the big bad bouncers outside the doors of this Apex club

We are not able to beat 8dans all the time, and our faulty play in the final few games of this session would have grave repercussions down the road.

0:00 Game 1
16:05 Game 2
30:43 Game 3
37:20 Game 4
1:02:03 Game 5
1:32:02 Game 6
1:38:09 Game 7
1:56:38 Game 8
2:22:22 Game 9
2:27:10 Game 10

#go
#weiqi

[danielbriggs]

Don't give 'em the pedestal treatment! That is, don't put 'em on a pedestal! Good advice. Often necessary advice.

In other news, do Fox players actually carry on conversations as they play Go?

[tatwing]

Often make mistakes that were easy to read out early on. If they were misreads that means you misread quite often.

Once mistakes were made you would continue it to let it grow until the last minute where you'd give up afterwards. But you could've kept the mistakes smaller instead of playing it out totally.

[gunsean]

And you get tired at all you talk non-stop

[Fanaro]

1:11:45 It's crazy to think that players that strong wouldn't be able to read that.