Thick Play Examples
Examples of thick play.
Example 1
This is the last play in a game between Segoe Kensaku and Fujisawa Hideyuki, taking 9 stones. After making shinogi with the Black stones on the left side and a brief exchange on the top, six-year-old Fujisawa made the thick play of (move 108), which aims at the cut at a.
Impressed by Fujisawa's play, Segoe stopped the game.
Example 3
This example comes from a game between Shusaku (White) and Hayashi Yubi in 1860, analyzed in an insert in the November, 1978 issue of Igo Shincho magazine by Miyamoto Naoki 9-dan.
The kake, , was a thick play taking into consideration Black's moyo on the top and White's moyo on the bottom.