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Tsumego
    Keywords: Life & Death, Go term

Literally, tsumego means filling the stones. We should understand this as a (mostly local) problem with one solution as opposed to fuseki or chuban problems, where several options exist.

Several go books exclusively consist of tsumego. Typical examples include: Life and death tsumego, connection tsumego, and ladder tsumego. (Although the latter is not really local, there is only one solution). Solving tsumego often requires a tesuji.

An advice, shared by almost all Go authorities - i.e. professional players and top amateur players - is that solving tsumego is the best way to improve. You can refer to HowAndWhatToStudy to verify this. It is also important to know How to approach a life and death problem.

Problem pages at SL:

Problem pages out there:


See also


WikiMasterEdited by Dieter on 25/10/2002



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