The fourth line is the line of victory

  Difficulty: Beginner   Keywords: Strategy, Proverb

This proverb (citations of its usage needed) serves as a beginner advice that, on a common 19x19 board, pushing the opponent along the fourth line, so that the area underneath becomes his territory, is usually bad, or at least deserves to think twice about.

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Generally, Black being pushed along the fourth line gets more compensation in this pushing battle, compared to White's influence, accordingly W2 is an uncommon approach to the 3-3 point. It is, however, played when the influence works well with regards to the rest of the board.


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