Semedori
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Semedori (Japanese: 攻め取り) is a situation in which dead stones must eventually be captured.
An advanced endgame technique is to invade the opponent's territory, causing a capturing race which is lost. In the course of winning it, though, the opponent must play more stones inside her territory than made up the invasion force in order to capture the invading stones. Therefore in net terms the invasion gains points, through apparent failure.
The Dochi yose tesuji is a high-level example, not exactly fitting that pattern.
See /Discussion.
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