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virtual groups
Difficulty: Expert Keywords: MiddleGame
A useful way of approaching framework theory is to think of possible invasions as 'virtual groups' - groups that exist in your head rather than (yet) on the board. So virtual groups have a life cycle:
If a framework is turned into territory, that means all the virtual groups inside it are now dead. Often the final play consolidating the territory is very efficient; the translation of that in virtual group terms may be that it kills two virtual groups at once.
For example Black plays 1 (the iron pillar) in the hope of reducing to nothing White's aji to live around a, and around b. The terminology of virtual groups is just a way of discussing aji for life. It is quite graphic and suggestive. I learned it in seminars of Matthew Macfadyen. Charles Matthews This is a copy of the living page "virtual groups" at Sensei's Library. ![]() |