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ApproachKo
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LibertyTacticalSense
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Approach Move
    Keywords: Tactics, Go term

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Approach moves make a difference

Although you can easily count apparent external liberties, sometimes it is necessary to play on more points than just the dame to capture a group.

Here we have a No eye Versus No eye Capturing Race. Black has two outside liberties marked a. White has one outside liberty at b but Black has an approach move c to make in order to capture White. So we can count c as another outside liberty. There is only one inside liberty: White wins even if Black has sente.

Note: Approach move is a general term which includes any move which reduces the liberties of an opposing stone or chain of stones. See approach ko.

Subtle point about approach moves



This is a copy of the living page "Approach Move" at Sensei's Library.
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