Blind Spot

    Keywords: Tactics, Go term

Chinese: 盲点 (máng diǎn)
Japanese: -
Korean: -

A blind spot is a point where people usually do not consider, but may be the only correct way of playing in a particular situation. Possible blind spots may involve the innocuous-looking squeeze, self-filling moves, empty triangles, and unexpected shortage of liberties.

Sometimes the blind spot is the solution to life and death problems.


Problems


Problem 1

[Diagram]

White first to kill

/Problem 1 Solution


Problem 2

[Diagram]

Black first to kill

/Problem 2 Solution


Problem 3

[Diagram]

Black to play and kill the corner

I had a blind spot so found this hard even though it's easy. Do you have the blind spot too ? Or can you find the answer quickly ?

This is problem 6 in the elementary level problems of Liping Huang's Problem Series Volume 1, the thin orange softcover book published by Slate and Shell.

Typed in on 11-Mar-2004 by Eric Osman

/Problem 3 Solution


Problem 4

[Diagram]

White to play and kill the corner

Problem from yellow german book with tsumego. It's marked as 1-3 kyu.

Typed in on 29-Oct-2009 by k43r

/Problem 4 Solution


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