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There Is A Fine Line Between Severe And Overplay
Difficulty: Advanced
Tristan: UNDER CONSTRUCTION. A severe move puts pressure on the opponent by exploiting a specific defect of shape. It is the kind of move that only works because one has sufficient support. Here is a very simple example:
An overplay often aims at the same kind of goal, but does not take into account one's own bad aji or other positional drawbacks. For example:
If you can provide better examples, I will probably delete the above, as I did this in a hurry...Cheers. Alex Weldon: This is also related to the idea of There are bad moves beside good moves?. Although it's often better to attack on a large scale, there are many times when playing fairly close (not in contact) with enemy stones is a very severe attack. But if you aren't strong enough all around, this can lead to amarigatachi, in which case the move was overplay. I'm not good enough to come up with an example on the fly. Anyone help me out here? This is a copy of the living page "There Is A Fine Line Between Severe And Overplay" at Sensei's Library. ![]() |