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Suberi
    Keywords: Shape, Tactics, Go term

A suberi is a slide, usually under the opponent's position. Black 1 in the diagram is an example of suberi (in a joseki that is known as "catenaccio").

[Diagram]
Diag.: suberi


--Stefan

[Diagram]
Diag.: 19x19 diagram


The easiest kind of slide to understand and handle is the knight's move slide, from the marked stone to the point a. The longer slides to b, c, d are useful techniques (examples of haengma), but involve weaknesses. You might say that the slide to d is so tenuous as not to be any kind of connection.

In professional games it is often the case that after a longer slide the shape becomes fixed quite soon.

[Diagram]
Diag.: Extra-long slide


This is an example from current play of a slide used to handle a position on the side, which was in danger of becoming cramped.

[Diagram]
Diag.: White overconcentrated


White's aim with the slide is to avoid this sequence, in which the marked stone is too close to the white two-stone wall.

Charles Matthews.



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