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Shortage of liberties
Path: GiveMeLiberties · Prev: Liberty · Next: TooClose
Difficulty: Beginner
Keywords: Shape, Tactics, Go term
Shortage of liberties (damezumari in Japanese) is the source of many of the basic tactics of the game. Some of the many ways in which it manifests itself are:
Some examples
In this diagram, a seki is created: Black cannot approach White at the circled intersection because there already is a shortage of liberties: by approaching, Black would fill one more black liberties and White could play at the square-maked point). Note that if Black's eye was larger, the two white stones could be captured.
Here is an example where the three marked white stones are in damezumari. When Black plays at This diagram is an example of oiotoshi. Making your opponent connect is not really putting him in damezumari. dkiller[1]: During comments on a game between two beginners, it seems they misunderstand damezumari. I'll write down the dialogue and the diagrams as I can remember it. If I'm wrong, please let me know.
Black player: Here dkiller, this is a good move, I'm playing a damezumari.
Dkiller: You see, now White is connected, White has eight liberties. It's a lot more than the three liberties at the beginning. On the other hand, Black has only two liberties and before had three liberties. With the cut at a, it is very worrying to have so few liberties. That's why I said it was a bad move. To conclude this exchange I would say that you can't really put your opponent in damezumari, you can only put yourself in damezumari (often a bad move) or use already-present damezumari to solve a local situation in a particular way. -- dkiller
Charles Matthews: The correct way for Black to play here must be
[1]: Is this the same player as dkiller72?
Shortage of liberties Exercise 1 Path: GiveMeLiberties · Prev: Liberty · Next: TooClose This is a copy of the living page "Shortage of liberties" at Sensei's Library. ![]() |