Split Knight's Move

a split knight's move  

The stones are split apart by the stones.

This shape can be called a split knight's move, split keima, ripped knight's move or ripped keima.

Locally speaking this is very bad for White: the stones and cannot help each other at all.

The history?  

White must have some extremely good reason to allow here. Mostly White should answer at , connecting her stones and blocking Black's development. As such the shape is often the result of a ko threat.

Possible dodging  

It is conceivable that White might want instead to treat as a sacrifice, with and here.

Usage

• The terms are not very common. Often the more general split shape is used or simply split?.

See also

• Cutting right through a knight's move is very big
• L'âme du Go
• Six good six bad shapes?