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Don't touch weak stones
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  Difficulty: Intermediate   Keywords: Strategy, Proverb

BobMcGuigan: The meaning of this proverb is that it is not usually good to play a contact move against your opponent's weak stone. The reason is that in responding to the contact play the weak stone becomes stronger, hence more difficult to attack. An exception is when the contact play induces a response which makes the weak stone into a heavy group. Players often attach on a weak stone when they feel under attack and need to take care of their stones. Sometimes this is necessary, but doing so may remove a possible counterattack for later.

Bill: Gee, Bob, what do you think about attach to rather than touch. I'm thinking about the colloquial sense of touch, which could lead to an interpretation of Leave weak stones alone.

Charles: It's a good metaphor.



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