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Answer the capping play with a knight's move
    Keywords: Proverb

In fact, this proverb should probably read

Knight's move to a capping play when on the third line

Third line

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Diag.: Capping play and knight's move

Why this knight's move ? Probably because it is a double purpose move. Its first purpose is to make territory while connecting, ...


[Diagram]
Diag.: Capping play and knight's move

... and its second to prepare an attack like in this diagram. For comparison ...


[Diagram]
Diag.: Capping play and knight's move

If Black defends and connects at 2, he has no severe follow up so that White can ignore it and treat 1 as a forcing move.



Fourth line

[Diagram]
Diag.: Capping play against the fourth line

This situation yields quite a different shape. In this case, an extension to 2 is better. It prepares an attack at 4.


[Diagram]
Diag.: Capping play against the fourth line

Because the stones are one line higher, the keima has a weakness and does not cooperate too well with the follow up at 4.



I open up this proverb page as food for discussion. I have far from the theoretical background to back up these ideas but I do have the advice from Guo Juan and indeed experienced the strengths and weaknesses of the shapes discussed.

Dieter


Could these two proverbs summarized as:

Reply to a capping play with a one space jump to the 4th line.

Confused



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