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Pincer
Difficulty: Beginner
Keywords: Attack & Defence
A pincer (Japanese: Hasami) is a move which attacks an invading stone from both sides.
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 This is a copy of the living page "Pincer" at Sensei's Library. (C) the Authors, published under the OpenContent License V1.0. |