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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.
Black 1 here is no good as a way to cut. After White 2 Black shouldn't continue.
If Black persists, this sequence already leaves the marked black stone blighted. Black has caused problems for himself. This is a copy of the living page "Blighting" at Sensei's Library. ![]() |