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Aji Example 1
   

[Diagram]
Diag.: Aji

White 2 increases White's liberties and thereby creates more aji. White's stones are lost, but their potential can be fully exploited.

In this case, the aji will be exploited almost immediately, and as such this is not the best example of its lingering quality.


[Diagram]
Diag.: Aji

It is almost painful how Black has to answer White's moves if he is determined to capture the two white stones. Black 2 and especially his marked stone are almost superfluous stones.

Here black is forced to capture two stones that were dead already; white has used the aji of those two stones to form thickness on the outside (with no bad aji).

White 1, making the opponent answer in one particular and expected way, oneself gaining something in the process, is called kikashi.



BillSpight: B 6 is comparatively small. At the time of W 1 - W 5, Black will often play elsewhere.

W 3 is tesuji. If W 5 instead, B 3.

W 1 gains two things. First, it prevents B 1. Playing sente is like cashing a check or coupon before it expires. In this case the expiration date is soon, before B 4. The second thing W 1 gains is B 2. After B 4 Black responds to B 1 with W 6.


See also AjiExample3



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