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Blighting
  Difficulty: Beginner   Keywords: Tactics, Go term

Spoiling a stone of the opponent's, by leaving it too close to a strong position of yours at the end of a tactical sequence.

(Literally blight is a kind of fungus or rot that affects farmers' crops such as grain or vegetables.)


This position from BQM64 explains a common technique combining the dropping back and blighting concepts.

[Diagram]
Black's ugly play

Black 1 here is no good as a way to cut. After White 2 Black shouldn't continue.


[Diagram]
White's first option

If Black persists, this sequence already leaves the marked black stone blighted. Black has caused problems for himself.

Charles Matthews



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