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combos
Difficulty: Advanced
Keywords: Tesuji
Tamsin: If you have ever played Mortal Kombat or other video games, you will know that advanced players use combinations of moves to despatch their opponents. These "combos" multiply the strength of single moves to devastating effect. The same idea can be applied to go. Many of the tesuji found in advanced textbooks such as the FujisawaTesujiDictionary are actually two- or three-step sequences of tesuji rather than "bread and butter" single-move techniques such as the Belly Tesuji? or Nose Tesuji. Here is one example from Fujisawa's dictionary:
White completes the separation process with the following blow, which looks vulgar but is actually unstoppable, because a and b are turned into miai:
Here is another example:
What happens if White resists more strongly with
This can turn into a ko after White's throw-in at a. Try reading out No, there is no ko. If white throws in at a, black does not capture the throw-in, but gives atari at b. --Andre Engels Good point. --Charles
This is a copy of the living page "combos" at Sensei's Library. ![]() |