Heavy

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  Difficulty: Beginner   Keywords: Shape

Chinese: 笨重 (ben4 zhong4)
Japanese: 重い (omoi)
Korean:

A heavy group is one that is too important to sacrifice, but which requires so much defence that defending it will result in a significant loss.

See also older discussion, now at heavy versus overconcentrated.

Heavy play usually counts as a mistake. Perhaps the most convincing general reason to play heavily is to save cutting stones, as part of a divide and conquer strategy; in that case the point is that your heaviness is balanced by compensation in the form of your opponent's weak group(s).

See Heavy Examples.

See also /Discussion.



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