Split shape
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Locally speaking this split keima is very bad for White: the stones 
and 
cannot help each other at all.
![[Diagram]](diagrams/16/9bbf6edd1bd3dd6ac36371cadcbad86e.png)
White must have some extremely good reason to allow 
here. Mostly White should answer 
at , founded on basic instinct.
![[Diagram]](diagrams/31/69a6aeb1908dcaa351bb8e92b58dacd1.png)
It is conceivable that White might want instead to treat as a sacrifice, with 
and 
here.
This is from six good and six bad shapes.
See also
- Cutting right through a knight's move is very big (split keima)
- BQM 23
- Ripped keima in L’ame du Go
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How To Play Go, Lesson 4, Section 4.5
Patrick Traill: Do the Asian terms given refer only to this shape (a split keima), or to any split shape, such as a split tobi?
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