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Oshitsubushi
Path: GiveMeLiberties · Prev: ConnectAndDie · Next: ThrowIn
Difficulty: Beginner
Keywords: Life & Death, Go term
This Japanese term describes a way of countering nakade.
White to play can kill Black by connecting. Now White can kill Black by nakade at the 1-1 point, even if Black captures the three stones.
If Black instead captures immediately, White plays at
White throws in and Black only has a false eye here.
Black lives with the sacrifice
White should have recognised that this is a bent four in the corner position and played at exswoo: Here's a fun fact. Oitsubushi literally means "chase and destroy" :) fhayashi: Oshitsubushi is "push and smash". Oitsubushi would be "chase and smash". Maybe "squish" instead of "smash". patrickb: "push and squish"... Hmm, I like that translation. :) Path: GiveMeLiberties · Prev: ConnectAndDie · Next: ThrowIn This is a copy of the living page "Oshitsubushi" at Sensei's Library. ![]() |