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Under the Stones
Path: Tesuji   · Prev: DrivingTesuji   · Next: ShapeFormingTesuji
  Difficulty: Beginner   Keywords: Life & Death, Tesuji

A play under the stones (Japanese: ishi-no-shita) is a play in a space which has become free because some of your own stones have been captured.

There are some spectacular tesuji where you plan to do this, losing stones deliberately, and carry that out unexpectedly.


[Diagram]
Diag.: Under the stones example.

Under the stones can be found in some life and death problems. This one is taken from Beginner Exercise 80.


[Diagram]
Diag.: Under the stones example.

Black can play at 1, sacrificing four black stones. Playing Black 1 at 2 will not save the group.


[Diagram]
Diag.: Under the stones example.

Even though White 2 captures four black stones, the magic of the under the stones tesuji is shown when Black 3 recaptures two white stones to make the second eye and lives.



Example1
Example2

UnderTheStonesProblem1
UnderTheStonesProblem2
UnderTheStonesProblem3

Big Question Mark Problem 1
Snapback Problem 16
Completely Artificial Problem


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