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Iron pillar
    Keywords: Go term

In Japanese, called tetchu.

[Diagram]
Iron pillar

B1 is the iron pillar.



A heavy shape on its own (cf. heavy versus overconcentrated discussion), it can work well in a position like this, where Black is attacking on the left and making territory on the right. It removes all White's sabaki tactics here.

Charles Matthews



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