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About Reading Things Out
Difficulty: Advanced
Keywords: MiddleGame, Life & Death, Problem
In a recent game on IGS between MyMaster and kobe (B) an interesting position arose which deserves a bit of attention and is a wonderful source of reading problems.
The moves to White 3 are a direct attack on Black's group and are worth a bit of study. White 1 is on the vital point of the black group's eye shape while White 3 is a fancy tesuji for preventing Black from connecting to the right.
If White plays here first, then Black has no problem living with 2. This is still a good result for White; but if White is able to kill the black group then this diagram is a failure. So White must sit back and start reading before deciding on whether to attack the group, or to take the small profit by taking just three black stones.
Black pulls out a tesuji of his own and if you haven't read it all out you might find yourself lost for a continuation. What to play and what not to play next will be the source of the material for this page.... Goran This is a copy of the living page "About Reading Things Out" at Sensei's Library. ![]() |