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There are No Ko Threats in the Opening
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"There are no ko threats in the opening", because there is so much flexibility and fluidity in the opening (fuseki). As a practical matter, this is closely related to the difficulty of accurately assessing the gain or loss of plays in the opening. Just about any move that could be played as a ko threat can be ignored.

Charles Matthews A proverb, but not literally true. If a ko fight occurs in the early stages of the game, then apart from local ko threats there may be only threats to play two damaging stones against opening positions.

For example

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may become:

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It is almost impossible to count this type of threat accurately, though by feel it is around 30 points (?).



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