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Add a second stone and sacrifice both
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Keywords: Proverb
This is a proverb nobody ever explained to me, so I'm not sure that it doesn't apply to something altogether different. But I use it to remember the sequence below, so this is at least one possible interpretation. Consider the following sequence (discussed by Sakata Eio in his book "The Middle Game of Go").
Black has just played the crosscut at
It is clear that
The thinking behind Black's line of play becomes clear in this diagram. Black has sente forcing moves at
Note that Black must play --Stefan I think the whole point is that you are creating aji. Aji of one stone is less potent than a two-stone group that requires at least two more moves to kill, and can later reveal itself to be dangerous. All this for an extra move! 'Abandon' is maybe not the right word, but as it's impossible to completely figure a game out to the end, there's no way of knowing what those two stones can do, until it's within the near(er) future. --Stevert (somewhere 'tween 10 kyu and 4 dan)
If White captures unkx80: It might be instructive to elaborate on why the alternative moves for Black are not so good.
If
If
For the sake of discussion, if there is a
Dieter: Let's look at three options. a, b and tenuki.
If Black at
If Black does not play tenuki, he ends in gote. We can expect White a, Black b, White c in the late endgame.
Black gives up the possibility of tenuki and ends up in gote anyway. In the endgame we can expect Black a White b Black c.
If Black plays tenuki, Path: AspectsOfSacrifice · Prev: ThrowIn · Next: CraneSNestTesuji Path: ForcingAndInitiative · Prev: Fujite · Next: AShapeComplaintSolution Path: GoProverbs · Prev: EvenAMoronConnectsAgainstAPeep · Next: UseContactMovesForDefence This is a copy of the living page "Add a second stone and sacrifice both" at Sensei's Library. ![]() |