Attack From A Distance
The principle to attack from a distance gives more direction to the general question how to attack. In particular it warns against
- Attachments as attacking moves.
- Diagonal approaches as attacking moves
In general, if the attacking stones are close, a counter-attack becomes more effective.
In contrast, the capping play [2] and the keima (see attacking with keima) keep some distance to the object of the attack. Those are basic attacking techniques.
Example
This capping play is a typical attacking technique: it gives White no leverage against . White's routes to the center have been reduced complicated and her eye space is narrow at the top. Incidentally, the capping play is where the basic defensive move of the one-point jump would come.
This and
don't attack White. They rather carry out a leaning maneuver to gain strength at the expense of easy living for White.
Here, does not really attack the White stones either. Up to
, White has increased her potential of making two eyes at the bottom, while
and
are floating into the centre. Similar results come from other vatiations.
Remarks
- One must understand the idea of making the opponent heavy, which can seem to run counter the advice on this page.
- In a broader sense this principle can be understood to attack on a large scale, including the technique of leaning attack.
Merge discussion (to be removed)
tapir: I agree, but there should be one proverb page remaining, even if it just list half a dozen variations of the proverb and features a link to this page.
Out of personal experience: it is hard for beginners to see how constitutes an attack here. Especially with a and c present. (The keima is easier to see, but here White can run out uncut and split you!) And imagining sth. like d as answer to a was completely out of question. For me it wasn't until I got my head around the idea that I attack for profit not for kills that I started to appreciate this kind of moves.