Goose tesuji

Keywords: Online Go

Goose tesuji is a term invented by Go teacher Shawn Ray (Clossius). A goose tesuji is either

1. An endgame technique: a move on the outside of the opponent's territory that asks him to play a move inside it, due to threatening to exploit a weakness.

2. The actual exploitation of that defect, after the opponent having refused to defend.

The term originated in a game that Shawn was playing on (probably) Fox. After he had played a move like , some kind of a dispute had occurred, and his opponent had started to talk in Chinese to a moderator.

Curious, Shawn put one of the Chinese sentences into Google Translate, which gave it in English as Up my goose I'm finishing the yose!

Goose tesuji last edited by bugcat on July 24, 2022 - 14:28

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