Resist

    Keywords: Tactics

To resist is to avoid doing what your opponent would like you to do. It is the natural response to a forcing move to resist wherever feasible.

Question: Is there a term in Japanese for not playing the expected response to a kikashi?

xela: This comes under the general heading of kiai ("fighting spirit")?

From Attack and Defense:

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white forces

This position arises from one of the 35PointJosekis where white invades under the black+circle 3-5 point at white+circle 3-3. What if afterwards white tries to force with W1?

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black capitulates

Black is submissive and connects with B2 in bad shape (empty triangle). Black has been completely forced. W1 is light (kikashi).

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black resists!

Black resists being forced by playing B2. This stone is much more useful than simply connecting at a. White cannot cut directly without being captured.

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white failure

If white persists with W3, black connects his stones anyway and white is heavy. Making a kikashi stone heavy is a major error. White is far better off not playing here in the first place, so long as black resists.

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white failure (2)

Similarly, if white tries to go the other way, she again ends up with a heavy group.


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