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Lop the Head of a Ladder off at the Earliest Opportunity
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There are many positions where ladder conditions allow you to capture one or two cutting stones. This proverb suggests you do so as soon as you can, since large implications exist for ladder breaker moves far away from the area. Defensive measures must constantly take the ladder into account - yielding suboptimal play locally to maintain the ladder. Ladders are a huge source of aji which should be removed in honte moves, even if it means taking gote.

This is even more important in the fuseki stage - where often a joseki would end with the removal of a ladder.



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