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Order of play
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Difficulty: Advanced
Keywords: Tactics, Go term
The order in which one player chooses to make plays in one tactical situation (for example, a life and death problem); or deals with a number of different local positions (for example, choosing between endgame plays, or ko threats). This topic may be discussed from a number of general points of view, such as sente and gote relationships, timing, aji and aji keshi, and so on. There are also many subtle points special to particular areas. In books on joseki it is frequently pointed out that small differences in the order of joseki plays have important consequences. To become reasonably strong at go one should try to be sensitive to these points.
Bill: An amateur was showing a game of his to Lin Haifeng (Rin Kaiho) and said as an excuse for a mistaken line of play, "Well, I only got the order of play wrong." Lin replied, "Go is the order of play." Questions about order of play can be treated as part of a more complex discussion (involving timing and omission of plays). See the sequencing questions path. Path: SequencingQuestions · Prev: · Next: OneTwoThree This is a copy of the living page "Order of play" at Sensei's Library. ![]() |