Black 201 and 203 (B-13 and C-13) had been captured with play of
White 206, and White 210 placed on C-13, originally occupied by Black
203.
White 196 and 198 (F-10 and E-10) had been captured with play of Black
221, and Black 223 placed on E, originally occupied by White 196.
“I judged before they had redone the board
that it would be five
points,” said the Master, smiling, when the next day he had given his
thoughts on the game. “I judged it would be sixty-eight against seventy-
three. But I think if you actually redid the board you would not find that
many.” He rearranged the board for himself, and came to a score of fifty-six
for Black against fifty-one for White.
Until Black succeeded in destroying the White formation after that fatal
White 130, no one had predicted a five-point difference. It had been
careless of the Master not to take the offensive and cut at R-2
perhaps White 160, the Master himself said, for he lost a chance thereby to
