Naturelich Games

After having won the Blue Moon game, Shelak suggested to play Die Dolmengötter. This might have been an attempt to sheer me up, as I like the game so much. We started out with some very strange moves.

Yellow (me) started in a valuable 5-4-4 position at #1. Green (Shelak) decided to take a 5-4-3 spot with #2 generating a nice connection in the left circle valued at 4 points. Then, with my #3, I decided to take the next better 5-4-4 position in a somewhat adjacent circle of value 5. Green countered this with their #4 in a 5-3-3 position. Note, how this druid is placed so well. A simple move to the upper left would allow him to put a stone that counts for both circles. Pretty stupid I thought, but then I came up with #5 which makes it a little bit less catastrophic. By putting it right next to the #4 green druid, I am able to get a little advantage. Since I get to move first, my stone will be the first in both circles and the green druid cannot really move without giving me a good start in at least one of the two circles. The picture below shows how the game evolved during the first few druid moves. Pretty difficult situation...