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Eye Stealing Tesuji
   

The Eye stealing tesuji typically involves the following shape:

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The circled spot is the crucial point for making shape.


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If white plays there, the shape is destroyed. Usually, the marked white stone is in place, so that Black eventually will have to prevent the cut and connect at 'a', ending up with a clumsy shape.


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Diag.: Clumsy shape, no eye

This shape destroying move effectively steals an eye from Black.


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Diag.: Nice shape, making an eye

For comparison, this diagram.



See also: HowTheCutIsProtected The same information, but more compact, is to be found at LearnTheEyeStealingTesuji



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