Pushing Battle

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    Keywords: MiddleGame

Contest for influence in which both players build walls (probably with defects) up into the centre. Takes getting ahead to its logical conclusion. (See push.)

A neglected concept in the literature.

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Aragaki-Hikosaka

A passage from a game Aragaki Takeshi-Hikosaka Naoto in the 1983 Kisei. This is a clear-cut sequence in the focal area at the junction of black and white frameworks.

The player who is ahead in the pushing battle has the option: hane or extend (nobi).

In this type of pushing battle, hane makes points - the line of demarcation between frameworks is being decided. Therefore players try to play hane; but there are tactical constraints.


Charles Matthews


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