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Damezumari
Difficulty: Beginner
Keywords: Go term
Damezumari means 'shortage of liberties'.
In this diagram, a seki is created: black cannot approach white at the circled intersection because he is in damezumari - by approaching he would fill one of his own liberties and white could capture his group at the eye (square). Note that if his own eye was larger, he could capture the two white stones.
Here is an example where the three marked white stones are in damezumari. When black plays at 1, white cannot respond at 2, but must answer at 4 or 5. White must give up the three stones. This diagram is an example of Oiotoshi. This is a copy of the living page "Damezumari" at Sensei's Library. (C) the Authors, published under the OpenContent License V1.0. |