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The one-point jump is never bad
Difficulty: Beginner Keywords: Shape, Tactics, Go term, Proverb
Good advice seldom comes any simpler than this.[1] A one-point jump like
--Stefan taiji : What is the record for ikken tobi plays in professional games? I can't find that information anywhere. Thanks. [1] It is sometimes translated as "A one-space jump is never wrong." This is what Bill Spight says about that translation: "... an overstatement and a mistranslation. ...: A one-space jump is never bad. While still an overstatement, it is more accurate, since a even a good play can be wrong, and a not bad play will be wrong more often than that." Sakata on Shinogi
Dave: Sakata no Go is a 6-volume series published in the sixties. Volume 2 is on Shinogi. The first diagram in chapter one is shown here. Sakata writes that regardless of all the proverbs we have to think beyond them in order to get the most out of the specific position. In this case blindly accepting the proverb on this page and jumping to
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Sakata gives this alternative way of replying to the marked stone. This is only one of many possible continuations after the probe at This is a copy of the living page "The one-point jump is never bad" at Sensei's Library. ![]() |