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Urgency
  Difficulty: Beginner   Keywords: Go term

Informal go concept, as in the proverb about urgent points. The urgency of a play is supposed to give a correct idea of the priority to give it.

There is a contrast with big plays, which are demonstrably of importance in terms of prospective territory or the score. Sometimes urgent plays relating to attack and defence should be made ahead of big plays with fewer implications.

Non-urgent plays can be considered slow, or slack, or small.


Sebastian: If there is a contrast between urgent and big, why are non-urgent plays called small?

Charles The difference between urgent and big is on the surface only. That is, with good perception you can see why an urgent play is considered big (for example, effects on attack and defence in the future). Therefore non-urgent plays should be considered small, even if they might look important in endgame terms.

BobMcGuigan: I think the urgent/non-urgent dichotomy may be a little confusing. If it is simply a matter of negation then big points which are not related to group (de)stabilization are non-urgent, but non-urgent seems to carry a negative connotation. I can envision a position, such as in ryojimari openings, in which there are no urgent points because all groups are stable but there are big points remaining. In such a position would the remaining big points become urgent? I can see a sense in which they would be. Certainly they are not slow, slack, or small. The colloquial meaning of urgent is relevant since a move is urgent if it should be played soon rather than postponed.

Bill: This page talks about urgency as an informal notion. I think, then, that urgent point should not be an alias for it, since that is a technical term (kyuba in Japanese). I have made it an alias for kyuuba, which already exists. Any objections?

As for non-urgent plays being small, they are not necessarily small, but are relatively small. Non-urgent is not the negative of urgent. That is not a peculiarity of Japanese. For instance, in English, uncool is not just the negative of cool. ;-)



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