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Aji Example 1
    Keywords: Tactics

[Diagram]
Diag.: Aji

White 2 increases White's liberties and thereby creates more aji. White's stones are lost, but their potential can be fully exploited.

In this case, the aji will be exploited almost immediately, and as such this is not the best example of its lingering quality.


[Diagram]
Diag.: Aji

It is almost painful how Black has to answer White's moves if he is determined to capture the two white stones. Black 2 and especially his marked stone are almost superfluous stones.

Here Black is forced to capture two stones that were dead already; White has used the aji of those two stones to form thickness on the outside (with no bad aji).

White 1, making the opponent answer in one particular and expected way, oneself gaining something in the process, is called kikashi.



-BillSpight: Black 6 is comparatively small. At the time of White 1 - White 5, Black will often play elsewhere.

Skelley: White could even consider not playing 5 to take sente; the aji of atari on the two black stones remains in case of a black peep or push out.

White 3 is tesuji. If White 5 instead, Black 3.

White 1 gains two things. First, it prevents Black 1. Playing sente is like cashing a check or coupon before it expires. In this case the expiration date is soon, before Black 4. The second thing White 1 gains is Black 2. After Black 4, Black responds to Black 1 with White 6.


[Diagram]
Diag.: Leaving cutting aji

Charles Matthews In fact we can look again at this position. Black 1 is a standard idea to leave some aji in White's position.


[Diagram]
Diag.: The cutting point

If now this, White has to worry about the cutting point at a. Since it may be slow to defend it immediately, it can remain as bad aji for White.


[Diagram]
Diag.: Some other aji

But White may not respond directly here. If White plays tenuki, Black has some bad aji that wasn't present in the initial diagram - for example the tactics in this diagram. Right now this doesn't lead anywhere for White, of course. But in combination with some other fight, this might become a serious possibility.



See also AjiExample3



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