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Shape
PageType: Path   Difficulty: Beginner   Keywords: Shape

Japanese: 形 (katachi)

Shape is a quality of a group of stones of the same color. This quality is highly influenced by the enemy stones present in the same area.

Good shape

Let's try to give a proper definition of "good shape".

Objectives:

Characteristics:

So, stones have good shape when they are connected or will easily be connected, make an eye or will easily make an eye with a minimum number of stones, and maintain a certain amount of flexibility.

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Authors: Dieter, Stefan, HolIgor

Wiki Master Edit by Dieter on 2002-10-25. Bulk of the content moved to A static treatise on shape. I refer to that page for the reason of this master edit.



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