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Playing In Your Own Territory Or Playing In Your Opponent's When You Have No Hope To Live
   

Though not strictly a mistake made by beginners, the most blatant attempts of living in your opponent's territory do come from beginners. Usually this involves outrageous 2nd line plays facing 4th line territory boundaries and no aji in the region, nearing the end of the game. Usually attempts to make them stop (like passing, or yelling at them) fail, response most often see as "well, I gotta try." The most useful proverb with this is probably Six Die But Eight Live.

This is not about making outrageous numbers of kikashi moves that can be thrown away at will. I have that habit of throwing kikashi deep in my opponent's territory which I may later rescue in keshi.

As for playing in your own territory, this usually comes from an inability to read out the results of a cut. Making solid connections where a tiger's mouth or keima connection is already present is the telltale sign here. Less commonly, it involves playing the 3-3 point to prevent the invasion when the local conditions already secure the corner.

Yes, playing in your own territory is okay, if it involves removing aji for profit - a 3-3 play in your own moyo may be a profit of 20 points. Doing so needlessly is the mistake.

--lavalyn



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