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two-stone edge squeeze
    Keywords: Tactics

(Moved out from Nameless tesuji.)

I'm adding one more here, as I don't know the name used in the English Go community. The Chinese call it "Da4 Tou2 Gui3" (literally translated as "big-headed ghost") --unkx80

[Diagram]
"Ta Tou Gui" Part 1

(Kris Rhodes: Pardon my interruption, but why wouldn't Black 1 at White 2 have worked to kill White? Or am I missing the point of the sequence?)

Answer It is a semeai. If Black plays 1 at 2 first then White kills two black stones faster. The tesuji is a clever way to win the capturing race. --HolIgor


[Diagram]
"Ta Tou Gui" Part 2

I believe I have seen this called the "stone monument tesuji" (the key moves being the descent to the first line followed by the throw-in). --DanSchmidt

This one is now copied on a separate page namely race to capture in the corner. I had forgotten it was already here until I stumbled on it while browsing recent changes junk. I have added that page because Sakata describes this tesuji as the "race to capture suji" in tesuji and anti-suji of go --Dieter

Bill Spight: Sakata doesn't really call this anything. In fact, suji can be plural (as with most Japanese nouns), and I think that is the case here. Sakata refers to three tesuji. First, the two-step hane (Black 1 in the Part One diagram), second the suteishi suji (Black 5 there), and third the horikomi (Black 1 in Part Two).

The name I have most often heard for this tesuji is simply "Two-stone corner squeeze". --Bass

Charles Matthews The traditional name is 'two-stone edge squeeze', anywhere along the edge, naturally.

dnerra: Someone I know likes to call this the "2-Dan-Tesuji". He says he has observed pretty consistently that 1-Dans may miss this tesuji (in a game, not as a problem of course), while 2-Dans usually get it right... I was 1-Dan when I first heard that from him, had recently missed it in a game, and decided never to miss it again :)

MattNoonan: In Essential Joseki on page 186, Rui Naiwei refers to this as the "sliding weight" method of capture, referring to the sliding weight on a balance scale.



This is a copy of the living page "two-stone edge squeeze" at Sensei's Library.
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