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small monkey jump
Difficulty: Advanced
Keywords: EndGame
For example Theorists have worked on comparisons of the small monkey jump and monkey jump from the point of view of exact counting. In what could be termed typical positions, the small monkey jump doesn't gain an advantage in points. Nevertheless it is played often in pro games, for reasons particular to the context.
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Here if Black doesn't answer (at Bill: Assuming secure black territory on the left side and secure white territory on the top side, it looks like a very close call. (I calculate 1/8 point miai in favor of the small monkey jump, but variations in the surroundings could make a difference, and it would have been easy to make a mistake of that amount in the calculations.) This is a copy of the living page "small monkey jump" at Sensei's Library. ![]() |