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Kyuuba
Keywords: Go term
急場 From the Japanese, an urgent point or area in the opening, as distinct from an Ooba, a so-called "big" opening point or area. Not to be confused with Kyuusho, the vital point of a shape. We say "point or area" because in most cases it is not a specific point which is either urgent or big, but rather a group of points in the same vicinity. For instance, kyuuba could refer to an area where either a knight's move slide or a diagonal move was urgent, just as an Ooba could be any of a group of extensions one point higher or lower or narrower or wider. The proverb holds that urgent points should be played before so-called "big" points. See Kyuuba before Ooba. Ooba, which are normally corner enclosures or extensions along the sides, tend to be points or areas which the players can occupy in turn, somewhat leisurely. Kyuuba, by contrast, are points or areas which change the dynamic of the opening, for example, by making one side stronger and the other weaker at the same time. A typical example is a move which simultaneously stabilizes your group while destabilizing the opponent's. A kyuuba is characterized by the fact that if one player fails to play there, taking an Ooba instead, the other player will invariably leap at the chance to play that kyuuba, changing the dynamic of the game in the other direction. The following two examples come from the insert, "Ooba, Kyuuba, Dameba", in the April, 1989 issue of Kido.
In this position,
Takagi comments that White is thick on the top side and Contributions from John F, Bill & kokiri. This is a copy of the living page "Kyuuba" at Sensei's Library. ![]() |