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Endgame Clamp
Path: Endgame · Prev: MonkeyJump · Next: EndgameConnectOrNot
Keywords: EndGame
The Endgame Clamp
How should Black play for the greatest endgame profit? Is it the monkey jump, or what?
We shall try the monkey jump... looks fairly good, doesn't it? For details, please go to the monkey jump page.
Now we shall see the Endgame Clamp at
White responds with Comparing the monkey jump and the endgame clamp diagrams:
Both moves are sente. So, we conclude that the endgame clamp is two points better than the monkey jump for Black. --unkx80
How about this
One point better for Black, but White has sente. But of course, if Black leaves
unkx80: I shall count the value of the sequence up to Comparing it with the endgame clamp diagram, White has one extra point of territory but Black has captured one more stone than White.
The value of BillSpight: Indeed that is so. It might be interesting to compare it with the solid connection in a DifferenceGame: ClampConnectionComparison.
It's interesting to note that this
Black pushing at DieterVerhofstadt writes: Morten, this is called synchronicity. I was about to make exactly the same comment !
Either Black has sente or there is an extra reduction at a, resulting in a large ko for both or another loss for White.
But White sacrifices a stone. Again: same result, one point worse off and loss of sente. The sad thing is that I would play this (and similar non-optimal moves) if this were a real-game situation.... The temptation to play something which looks bigger to begin with , although I have a nagging feeling from having seen it in a book or in a game that it is inferior.... is often too big :o(( --MortenPahle BillSpight: Looks can deceive. The clamp is gote. (unkx80: You are not wrong, but you have to take into account the actual situation. Most Chinese Go books written by professional players say that the clamp is sente.) (Bill: Most Japanese go books do, too. ;-))
MartijnWallage?, 1k: Well, if sente is so important. White can play
Bill: Indeed, after
As for a sente not gaining anything (on average), that is the nature of a sente-gote position: sente gains nothing. How large is the sente?
If White plays the reverse sente at So if Black does not play his sente, White will play the reverse sente (as a rule). If the ambient temperature is less than 2 1/3, that represents a loss for Black. Path: Endgame · Prev: MonkeyJump · Next: EndgameConnectOrNot This is a copy of the living page "Endgame Clamp" at Sensei's Library. ![]() |