Tesuji

This article is about skillful play; for the book of the same name by James Davis, see Tesuji the Book

A tesuji 手筋 is a clever play, the best play in a local position, a skillful move, a special tactic. Tesujis come in all forms and shapes, some are more known than others. See good play for other ways of being complimentary. See suji or technique for more.

Table of contents Types of Tesuji Capturing Attacking Defending Shortage of Liberties Tesuji Miai Tesuji Shape Tesuji Yose Tesuji Miscellaneous Tesuji exercises Books See also

Types of Tesuji

Capturing

Kageyama says "If you want to capture stones, hold up two fingers and say to yourself: 'Can I capture with the net?' and 'Can I capture with the ladder?'"

• Net
• Ladder and Loose Ladder

There are many other capturing tesuji:

• Squeeze tesuji
• Oiotoshi
• Crane's nest tesuji
• patting the raccoon's belly

Attacking

General cases of clever attack. These plays often help to make a capture.

• Shortage of liberties
• Eye stealing tesuji
• Throw in
• Driving tesuji

Defending

Winning race.

• Under the stones
• Descent tesuji, Ugly sagari

Making eyes or eye-space

• Placement preventing the tower peep

Shortage of Liberties Tesuji

• Snapback and double snapback
• Move one space further with snapback
• Belly Attachment tesuji
• Twirl
• Elbow lock
• Nameless tesuji
• Don't throw in tesuji
• Nameless don't throw in tesuji

Miai Tesuji

• Grappling hook tesuji
• Nose tesuji
• Clamping tesuji
• Double threat

Shape Tesuji

• Ear-cleaning tesuji

Yose Tesuji

• Endgame Tesuji (index of endgame tesuji on SL)

Miscellaneous

• Sente getting tesuji
• Wedge (Warikomi)
• Connecting techniques

Tesuji exercises

• One Day 1 Problem: A problem each day
• Gokyo Shumyo
• Reading Problem 1 by Bill Spight
• Lucky's Problem
• Gu Li's Brilliant Moves
• Tesuji From Games

Books

• Encyclopedia of Maek
• Five Hundred and One Tesuji Problems
• Fujisawa Tesuji Dictionary
• Get Strong at Tesuji by Richard Bozulich
• Jingjiang Weiqi Shoujin attributed to Yi Chang-ho
• Segoe Tesuji Dictionary
• Tesuji by James Davies
• Tesuji and Anti-Suji of Go by Sakata Eio
• Great Tesuji Encyclopedia (手筋大事典) by Nihon Ki-in

See also

• Suji: A line of play (way of playing), whether or not good, e.g. belly attachment
  • Zokusuji: A bad line of play
• Tsumego: Tesuji are often used to solve tsumego.
• Stupid Moves: In some cases, players just cannot stop themselves and they play anti-sujis, or patently bad moves.
• Goproblems.com: There are several tesuji problems to be found there.
• Don't forget to learn the difference between Tesuji and Myoshu
• Chandelier Shattering Tesuji.