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Nakade Example 3
Difficulty: Intermediate Keywords: Go term
This example comes from Modern Famous Games (Gendai no Meikyoku), vol. 6: Go Seigen, II p. 59.
In the game, both players, Go Seigen and Fujisawa Kuranosuke misread this corner, thinking that Black should take the two
Here the commentary points out that White wins the race to capture because, "Since the corner is four moku nakade?, {there are} five liberties {for White}."
I (Bill Spight) find it interesting that, at this point White's eye shape has five points, not four. But after Black plays atari and White takes Black's four stones we have reached a four moku nakade shape, so it's equivalent.
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Now, Here the word, shape (katachi) is explicitly used. As I read it, however, four moku nakade and two moku nakade modify shape, saying what kind of shape. This is a copy of the living page "Nakade Example 3" at Sensei's Library. ![]() |