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PageType: Path Difficulty: Beginner Keywords: Shape
Japanese: 形 (katachi) Shape is a quality of a group of stones of the same color. This quality is highly influenced by the enemy stones present in the same area.
Good shapeLet's try to give a proper definition of "good shape". Objectives:
Characteristics:
So, stones have good shape when they are connected or will easily be connected, make an eye or will easily make an eye with a minimum number of stones, and maintain a certain amount of flexibility. Further reading
Discussion pagesProblemsAuthors: Dieter, Stefan, HolIgor Wiki Master Edit by Dieter on 2002-10-25. Bulk of the content moved to A static treatise on shape. I refer to that page for the reason of this master edit. This is a copy of the living page "Shape" at Sensei's Library. ![]() |