Setup  

Consider this situation. Black is under pressure at the upper side.

Crude moves  

The crude atari of and the pushing from behind of is not satisfactory. The marked stone remains in a nice position, attacking the eye shape of Black's group and not suffering any loss of liberties.

Driving tesuji  

is the driving tesuji, giving Black two sente moves at and , pushing through the small gap, hurting the marked stone.

Driving tesuji in joseki

Joseki  

is a tesuji with a double threat and in fact is the only joseki move in this position (although this seems to be outdated thinking).

Driving tesuji in joseki  

If White continues with an understandable , then the following sequence - is the driving tesuji.

Avoiding the driving tesuji  

More often than not, White does not like above result and plays something like to avoid the driving tesuji.

Driving tesuji in an overall position

Driving for overall position  

This example from Teaching Game 44 / B 91 is similar: White's marked stone is weakened. Black thinks of 1 and 3 as disposable stones now.

Examples

• Driving Tesuji Problem 1
• Driving Tesuji Problem 2

See also

• Dead link, not in Wayback Machine: An article by Charles Matthews: http://www.european-go.org/magazine/articles/english/01-10-99-go-skills1.html
• Choshi, which is a more general term.
• flying off orthogonally
• The pattern of 'atari, extend, bump' is also shown in Tesuji by Davies. The pattern isn't generalized there.