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Pincer
  Difficulty: Beginner   Keywords: Attack & Defence

[Diagram]
Diag.: a pincer

A pincer (Japanese: Hasami) is a move which attacks an invading stone from both sides.


[Diagram]
Diag.: a pincer

As a novice, I only feel comfortable making a pincer move when the group that my opponent is attacking is fairly strong, as this diagram shows. Otherwise I prefer to make an extension or attachment.

author: FCS

I took a liberty to rearrange your stones a little to make it look more conventional.

--HolIgor

Note that white 1 here is actually a very bad move, this move hardly improves on passing because the stone is so weak.

Going back to the first diagram, remember that white also has a one-stone group left. It will be almost automatical that either the corner or the pincer stone becomes strong while white is settling her own stone.

-- AndreEngels



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