Placement

    Keywords: Life & Death, Go term

Chinese: 点 (dian3)
Japanese: 置き (oki)
Korean:

A placement is a play inside the opponent's group, mostly on a vital point.

A placement is understood as disconnected from one's existing stones from one's group; to succeed it should be difficult to defend against. (It's more of a tesuji than a speculative invasion.)

Example:

[Diagram]

Artificial example

After the placement at B1, Black can connect out, either at a or at b.

--Dieter

See Nakade and Vital Point.


Here's an example of a placement in a life-and-death situation:

[Diagram]

placement



B1 kills the white corner as follows:

[Diagram]

placement



White is dead due to bent four in the corner.

--Bob McGuigan


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