Eye-Stealing Tesuji
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The eye-stealing tesuji typically involves the following shape:
The circled spot is the crucial point for making shape.
If White plays there, the shape is destroyed. Usually, the stone is in place, so that Black eventually will have to prevent the cut and connect at a, ending up with a clumsy shape.
This shape-destroying move effectively steals an eye from Black.
For comparison, this diagram.
See also the pages in the Eyes Collection, and Protecting the cut - example 1.
The same information, more compactly presented, is to be found at Learn the Eye-Stealing Tesuji.
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