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Double Hane
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Difficulty: Beginner Keywords: Go term
A double hane[1] (Japanese: nidan-bane), aka two-step hane is - as the name already suggests - two hanes played in succession. It is a response to White's hane-kaeshi at
[1] Bill: After looking in vain for a double hane on the Stanley 3-3 Double Hane page, I came here. I believe that the proper term in English is two-step hane. Double hane is ambiguous. Just to make sure I was not out of touch, I looked it up in the 2001 edition of the Go Player's Almanac. There is no entry for double hane. There is none for two-step hane either, but nidanbane is defined as a two-step hane. Is there an example of double hane in the English go literature? Anonymous: IIRC, the book All About Thickness (English translation) lists a proverb: "Learn the double hane and you are nearly shodan." Another Anonymous: IIRC, James Davies uses the term "double hane" in his books, too. Also, googling for "double hane" (with quotes) yields lots of hits. Bill: Thanks for the refs. :-) If Davies uses double hane in his books, I am surprised it does not appear in the Go Player's Almanac, since he was a major contributor to it. I see that van Zeijst uses the term, and withdraw my objection. :-) Robert Pauli: Anyway, with what can it be confused, Bill? Bill: Playing hane from two sides, for instance. Like so:
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