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Shortage of liberties
Path: GiveMeLiberties · Prev: Liberty · Next: TooClose
Difficulty: Beginner
Keywords: Shape, Tactics, Go term
Shortage of liberties (damezumari in Japanese) causes many of the basic tactics of the game..
In this diagram, a seki is created: Black cannot approach White at the circled intersection because he already is short of liberties - by approaching he would fill one more of his own liberties and White could at the square-maked point). Note that if Black's eye was larger, he could capture the two white stones.
Here is an example where the three marked white stones are in damezumari. When Black plays at This diagram is an example of oiotoshi. Making your opponent connect is not really putting him in damezumari
During the comments on a game between two beginners, it happens that thay seems to misunderstand damezumari. I'll write down the dialogue and the diagrams as I can remember it.
Black player : Here dkiller, this is a good move, I'm playing a damezumari.
Dkiller : How can you say that a damezumari is a good move?
Black player : How it can be wrong? Before White had three liberties, now she has only two liberties, It is a good move.
Dkiller : Oh my god, we're not taking about the same 'damezumari'; see the continuation.
Dkiller : You see, now White is connected, she has 8 liberties. It's a lot more than the three liberties he had at the beginning. In the other hand, Black has only two liberties and before she had three liberties. With the cut at a, it is very worrying to have so few liberties. That's why I said it was a bad move.
Charles Matthews The correct way for Black to play here must be
Shortage of liberties Exercise 1 Path: GiveMeLiberties · Prev: Liberty · Next: TooClose This is a copy of the living page "Shortage of liberties" at Sensei's Library. ![]() |