ko threat amplification

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Enlarging the value of a ko threat, normally before the ko fight starts and usually by means of forcing plays that could themselves serve as threats. That is, in the typical case one player uses a sente sequence in advance of a fight to make a trade-off between number and size of threats available in some part of the board.


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