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Whole Board Thinking
    Keywords: Strategy

Obviously enough, if you can really think globally about board positions in Go, that leaves out nothing and is ideal. Still this is very hard to do.

Parts of the game that certainly require whole board thinking of some kind include

In contrast there is the opposite kind of analysis, which you could call modular thinking. Some aspects are

There are important areas that seem to need both types of thinking. For example framework theory has to combine ideas about vital points with ideas relating to direction of play - otherwise you have to read out far too many sequences.

See also Whole Board Thinking in Joseki and Whole Board Connection Theory.



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