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Diamond
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Diamond shape

This shape is called a diamond.

In contrast, a ponnuki is the process of capturing a single stone leaving such a shape, not the shape itself.



Ponnuki implies local tally BBB (four black stones played, one white captured, 4 - 1 = 3). If you make a diamond as Black without capturing a white stone that is local tally BBBB. The former is proverbially worth 30 points, i.e. ten points when you divide by the tally; the latter would therefore give only 7.25 points per play.

-- Charles Matthews



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