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Placement
    Keywords: Life & Death, Go term

A placement is a play inside the opponent's group, mostly on a vital point.

A placement is understood as disconnected from one's existing stones from one's group; to succeed it should be difficult to defend against. (It's more of a tesuji than a speculative invasion.)

Example:

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Artificial example

After the placement at B1, Black can connect out, either at a or at b.

--Dieter

See Nakade and Vital Point.



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