Hanging connection

  Difficulty: Introductory   Keywords: Shape, Go term

Chinese:
Japanese: 欠け継ぎ
Korean:

An indirect way of defending a cutting point.

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Hanging connection

Black has a cutting point at a. Playing BC enables Black to defend it - now a white stone played at a is in atari. In this case it is better shape for Black to play BC than the direct connection at a.


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The other hanging connection

Black has this other choice of hanging connection, but that is certainly worse. The White peep at W1 is embarrassing.


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Double hanging connection

In this case B1 covers two cutting points.


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Avoid two peeps

Because a double hanging connection allows two peeps, it should often be avoided. Here B1 might be better.


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A raw peep

In this case W1 may be criticised as a raw peep: a peep at a cutting point that still might be useful as a cut.

Charles Matthews


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Thad: It should be noted that the hanging connection changes the yose hane-connect W1 from sente ( if BC at a instead, then Black must play b) to gote.

So when is the Hanging connection better than the direct connection? (And vice-versa of course. )


See also:


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