Don't try to cut the one-point jump

    Keywords: Tactics, Proverb

The cut may work, but often the damage to your own stones is bigger than to the opponents':

[Diagram]

A typical one-point jump

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An unreasonable cut

(If circumstances permit more aggressive fighting, B6 could also be at a.)

Black gets good shape, and while White is busy defending white+circle and W5, Black's shape will get even better.


--dnerra


[Diagram]

An unreasonable cut (2)

I'm beginner and I don't get why this sequence is bad? Haven't the two black stones been cut, and black+circle laddered?

-- ChristopheTryingToUnderstand?

[Diagram]

capturing a stone

If Black plays B2 here instead, the white stone is captured, giving Black a good result - especially since he does not have a base in the starting diagram - Andre Engels

Yeah, what Andre said. I was gonna say it, but when I tried to save the changes, Andre already had. --BlueWyvern


Bill: In the old days, when you had to walk a long ways to get to the Nihon Kiin, I used to kibitz pro games occasionally. I remember watching Fujisawa Hideyuki and somebody and wondering why the attacker of a group did not cut a one-point jump. It looked like it worked to me. Unlike the example above, the attacker was stronger. And sometimes you do see such cuts in pro games. But they are rare because in the context of a large-scale attack, they are too small.

(Later.) However:

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White to play.

This example comes from Go Seigen and Segoe's Tesuji Jiten: Warikomi, problem 27.


Occurrence in pro games:

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Song Taekon(Black) -- Lee Changho(White) Move 90

Game from 2004 Korean League: Song Taekon(Black) -- Lee Changho(White) W+R

Looks to me like a better proverb would be "don't cut the one point jump if you have nearby stones". ~srn347

Game record at [ext] go4go.


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