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Two-stone edge squeeze
Keywords: Tesuji, Tactics, Go term
The Chinese call this "大头鬼" (literally translated as "big-headed ghost") --unkx80
Answer It is a capturing race. If Black plays
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 ( 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. ![]() |