I am having a realy hard game.
Now I am thinking for 30 minutes in correspondenced allready and still dont have the answer
What was you longest time to think in your games
I have no idea what is my longest thinking time. If I have trouble making a decision, I play a 'waiting move'.
needed like at least a whole day for a move once when playing a particularly difficult correspondence game. I still lost; but was a good game regardless
sometimes you just need more time to think, and that's ok. do the best you can with what you have
And the move i tought very long was bad
Why do i even try?
I cannot answer that question for you
after all, everyone should have there own personal answer to why they try
When I first started getting really into shogi, I was practicing against the Spear2008 engine at various difficulty settings and handicaps. I often took a 4-piece handicap (I had no lances, rook, or bishop) against one of the easier difficulties that I usually beat. It was a pretty even matchup, and I had a lot of fun.
Anyway, one particular game we had reached the mid-game, and I had just breached the engine's camp. The engine's bishop looked very trapped, but with my pieces spread so thin, it wasn't easy. I remember looking at an aggressive knight jump that didn't work, I saw this weird backwards silver move AWAY from the bishop, but it seemed silly. I thought about exchanging pawns and re-dropping a pawn, but nothing really looked good. I looked and nearly everything and thought this would be another game where my attack just runs out and I eventually lose.
But the longer and longer I thought, the more and more appealing the weird backwards silver move looked. I remember starting to get really excited, because while the move LOOKED counterintuitive, I was absolutely failing to find a response that didn't eventually trap the bishop. When I finally made that move, I realized I had sunk almost 16 minutes out of my total 60 on that ONE move. But it was worth it, and I ended up winning the bishop and the game. It's probably the hardest I've ever (meaningfully) thought about a move, in any game.
Upon post-game analysis, the full strength engine didn't like my move at first, but it changed its mind at depth 19(!), which made me feel like I was actually OK at shogi for once lmao it really was a highlight of my shogi "career".
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