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Squeeze tesuji
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Difficulty: Beginner
Keywords: Tesuji, Shape
A squeeze tesuji is a play where you squeeze the opponent's stone into an inefficient shape. Often a successful squeeze includes sacrificing one or more stones to make the opponent's shape bad first. The squeeze wrings out the liberties of a group of your opponent's stones by a combination of atari moves and/or atari threats. Squeeze plays are very rewarding and normally quite easy to spot. With a bit more practice, you can also see how to set up a squeeze by forcing your opponent into a bad shape before, and conversely, how to avoid being squeezed yourself.
In this example, after White plays
... in order to force with with
Black continues to squeeze White, making territory in the process.
White's group is still weak.
In some cases, the squeeze can be so efficient that the opponent is captured. In this example, Black sacrifices the marked stone to squeeze with -- Morten Pahle (10k)
Before connecting, White pushed a little bit into the center with
Followed by
Black must play Another example:
Consider this position and focus on the cut at a. Your first reaction may be that Black doesn't need to protect the cut if the ladder works for him, and that he needs to protect if the ladder works for White. However this analysis is incorrect.
Black has a clever defense if White cuts. He starts with an atari at
She plays atari at
However Black now plays a tesuji at
After the capture, Black again plays atari at
For reference, the starting position is the result of this rather common san-san invasion under the black hoshi stone.
This completes the position. Verify for yourself that against the cut neither the net above nor the one to come works if White has a stone on one of the marked spots. In go terms this means that the position has some bad aji for Black. He needs to remember this in the continuation of the game, because in some other sequence later in the game White may play on one of these spots for another reason and in doing so enable the cut.
In position "White cuts!" there is another way to capture the cutting stone, which doesn't employ squeeze though.
One may verify that
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