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Answer the capping play with a knight's move
Keywords: Proverb
In fact, this proverb should probably read
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Why this knight's move ? Probably because it is a double purpose move. Its first purpose is to make territory while connecting, ...
... and its second to prepare an attack like in this diagram. For comparison ...
If Black defends and connects at 2, he has no severe follow up so that White can ignore it and treat 1 as a forcing move. Fourth line
This situation yields quite a different shape. In this case, an extension to 2 is better. It prepares an attack at 4.
Because the stones are one line higher, the keima has a weakness and does not cooperate too well with the follow up at 4. I open up this proverb page as food for discussion. I have far from the theoretical background to back up these ideas but I do have the advice from Guo Juan and indeed experienced the strengths and weaknesses of the shapes discussed. Could these two proverbs summarized as: Reply to a capping play with a one space jump to the 4th line. This is a copy of the living page "Answer the capping play with a knight's move" at Sensei's Library. (C) the Authors, published under the OpenContent License V1.0. |