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Basic strategies list
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Grauniad:

The most basic strategies include for example:


I would quibble with "Make your own groups strong before attacking your opponent's groups." I think I know reasonably well what it is supposed to mean, but I don't think the way that it's expressed necessarily conveys the meaning to someone who doesn't already know what it means. Consider that it can be very valuable, when making one's own groups strong, to seek to do it in a way which also tends to weaken enemy groups, E.g., it's good to expand one's own potential eye space at the expense of the enemy's eye space. The principle as stated above might tend to discourage a novice from doing this. -- WilliamNewman

Isn't that covered by also trying to make double purpose moves? The strategies aren't mutually exclusive. -- Grauniad

The comment is fine - it's an explanation of the honte concept, read in one way - but in this case strategy may have to mean 'long-term thinking' rather than 'implementable plan'. Therefore a bit more advanced. Or also ambiguous - it could refer also to motare. Charles Matthews



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