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Difficulty: Advanced Keywords: Strategy, Go term
A probe (Japanese: yosu-mi) is a play made in order to see how the opponent reacts. After a probe, the opponent must choose between one of two or three options. You should have planned your game so that none of these options are beneficial to your opponent. -- Morten Pahle Also known as yosu-miru. See Yosumi vs Yosumiru. -- Eduardo Lopez H. Mr. Yang Yilun, famous teaching pro, uses the term asking move. Probes usually ask the opponent to make a choice, say between inside territory or outside influence, which allows you to decide your strategy accordingly. --Bob McGuigan Dieter Verhofstadt (1k) starts with a classic example of a probe given by Goran Siska and continues.
Possible local answers for Black range from a to d. I'm less sure about d, so I'll discuss the other three here in more detail.
White crosscuts with
Charles
If Black thinks the outside is important, all outward aji will be removed by playing at Dave Sigaty: White may also push more aggressively at b. If Black answers at c, White plays a threatening to live with a better result than the tripod group. If Black answers instead at d, White plays c and escapes on the outside. This is discussed in The 1971 Honinbo Tournament, chapter 13.
Dave Sigaty: Another continuation for White is the clamp at b. In Strategic Concepts of Go Nagahara gives the continuation Black c, White d, Black a, and White e. By removing the stones at Charles Matthews In fact the common answer from the pros to White now at a is Black at b.
Bob McGuigan: Pulling back with
This is the commonly-used probe in the small high enclosure.
This allows White to get two useful moves Yosumiru Example From Pro Game 1
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