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Race to capture in the corner
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Keywords: Tesuji, Tactics
In Japanese, sekitou shibori, or "stone pagoda squeeze". See two-stone edge squeeze for the general pattern.
If Black now connects at a, we have a fight between a group with an eye and a group without eye (Richard Hunter calls it a Type 3 fight in his work on Counting Liberties). There are no internal liberties?. White has three outside (exclusive) liberties, Black too, but White is to play.
It is tempting to play the squeeze but it is wrong, again given the special properties of the corner.
This is one possible continuation. It is a Type 3 fight again. Black has one exclusive liberty in the eye ( Path: GiveMeLiberties · Prev: CapturingRaceExamples · Next: BellyAttachment This is a copy of the living page "Race to capture in the corner" at Sensei's Library. ![]() |