Threatening a ko

  Difficulty: Advanced   Keywords: Ko

Chinese: 装劫 (zhuang1 jie2)
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Unless the opponent has a clear lead in ko threats, one can rely on threats to start a ko to take advantage of the situation. This enables moves that would otherwise not work.


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Example

The far jump to B1 might look unreasonable, but with B3, Black threatens to start a large ko at a. After White defends with W4, Black is able to link up.

The simple descent at b would threaten to capture too, but Black can't jump in as deep as B1 then.

For more examples on this way to jump in on the second line see: Reverse Monkey Jump


WME by jantiff from contributors Sebastian, RafaelCaetano, HolIgor.


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