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oshitsubushi
Path: GiveMeLiberties · Prev: ConnectAndDie · Next: ThrowIn
Difficulty: Beginner
Keywords: Life & Death, Go term
This Japanese term describes a way of countering nakade.
Black 1 here lives. Black will get two eyes by playing the 1-1 point, eventually, and there is nothing White can do to prevent that. Black 1 prevents White connecting the two marked stones (suicide rule). Black 1 is an example of oshitsubushi, pressing the opponent's stones so closely together that connection is illegal.
White to play can kill Black by connecting. Now White can kill Black by nakade at the 1-1 point, even if Black captures the three stones.
If Black instead captures immediately, White plays at 2 and Black will die. White shouldn't regard this as a ko fight in the corner and try to recapture: Black then gets a second chance at oshitsubushi.
Black 3 to capture is useless.
White throws in and Black only has a false eye here.
White 3 here doesn't understand the position. Now Black can live.
Black lives with the sacrifice 4 and oshitsubushi at 6.
White should have recognised that this is a bent four in the corner position and played at 4 herself.
exswoo: Here's a fun fact. Oitsubushi literally means "chase and destroy" :) Path: GiveMeLiberties · Prev: ConnectAndDie · Next: ThrowIn This is a copy of the living page "oshitsubushi" at Sensei's Library. ![]() |