Pulley

    Keywords: Life & Death, Go term

Tamsin's term for the capturing technique used in situations such as this:

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Basic Situation

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The tesuji

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A false eye



When White captures at a, Black plays at b to nullify the eye. To my mind, it seems as though the marked Black stone black+circle is "moved" along to the left, as though by a pulley.

The above is a sample problem from the Korean Baduk Academy on [ext] http://www.gobase.org


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