Small Life

Difficulty: Intermediate Keywords: Go term

Small life is a term that indicates the player to be forced into living small, as opposed to living with a decent amount of territory and/or weakening the opponent's surrounding structure, usually in gote too.

In this modern ^[1] 3-3 invasion pattern, White adds a stone on the second line with . If she omitted that ...

[1] bugcat: What's "modern" about ? The modern (or hypermodern) move would be the continuation with a second push, rather than making a hane exchange. Both the "new" and "old" 3-3 variations after stem from .

... then Black's turn would force White into small life.

Small Life last edited by bugcat on October 1, 2021 - 21:11

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