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Direction of Play
    Keywords: Strategy

There is a book by Kajiwara called 'The Direction of Play', but it may nowhere define what it is talking about.

Splitting Go thinking into 'direction of play' and 'shape' is one of those what/how distinctions like strategy/tactics. The typical situation in Go is of looking at various empty spaces on the board, and trying to decide which area is most important. That overall decision represents choice of direction of play, after which one has to select a particular point.

Of course many things come into the decision such as attack and defence, aji and so on.

The Kajiwara point of view is something like 'maximum harmony of direction of play with the influence or aji of your existing stones'.


Proverbs related to the direction of play



This is a copy of the living page "Direction of Play" at Sensei's Library.
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