connecting along dame

    Keywords: Strategy

Connecting along dame generally isn't a desirable act. Connecting is good but a connection making profit (territory, influence or thickness) is preferable.

An attack on a weak group can force you to connect (to a strong group). If you have to walk on dame points by doing this, while the opponent makes territory, the opponent may have gotten sufficient profit out of the attack.

Worse is when you connect to something so weak that together the two groups are a little stronger but also much heavier.

Even worse is connecting groups along dame points, which are already safe. This often happens in the endgame. Virtual connections which have long been important, are threatened to be cut, but in these later stages both ends already have two eyes and no points are lost by the cut. Connecting makes 0 points in gote.

Dieter


connecting along dame last edited by CharlesMatthews on January 19, 2003 - 15:21
RecentChanges · StartingPoints · About
Edit page ·Search · Related · Page info · Latest diff
[Welcome to Sensei's Library!]
RecentChanges
StartingPoints
About
RandomPage
Search position
Page history
Latest page diff
Partner sites:
Go Teaching Ladder
Goproblems.com
Login / Prefs
Tools
Sensei's Library