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Following the Opponent Around
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    Keywords: Proverb

Being content to finish each local fight in gote - so that the opponent has considerable choice of where to play and when to fix up weak points.

It is not a matter of chance whether a sequence ends in sente or gote. There has always to be a good reason for ending in gote. Imagining that your opponent has some threat you haven't yet figured out isn't a good enough reason.

If you always play for the maximum in each position, though, the same thing can happen for the opposite reason - you are stretching too far. It is much better not to be over-ambitious. As the proverb says: beware of going back to patch up.


See also tenuki is always an option.


Stefan: In the last paragraph, do you mean playing so aggressively that you try to mess up any position your opponent tries to establish? Following her around to destroy whatever she constructs?


Charles Matthews No, that has other names (though I can't think of any polite ones - '1 kyu go' is the least rude).

It's the same kind of point about local fighting as in 'don't play atari then connect'. If you just play the connection move it may be easier to take sente.

You can't always take sente, but I was amazed to find that there are dan players who believe, for example, that it is a random thing whether a joseki has an odd or even number of plays in it. Perhaps it is something not emphasised enough in joseki books.


Good heavens ! I'm a Dan player and I never calculated joseki modulo 2. Interesting classification. --Dieter



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