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Amarigatachi
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Amarigatachi means "overstretched (or overwrought) shape". According to Bob Terry's translation of Killer of Go, it would be equivalent to the chess term "exhaustion of possibilities".

In that same book, the following example is given.

[Diagram]
Amarigatachi

This is a corner pattern in which White attacks at the vital point of Black's shape, instead of extending along the left side.

White tries to trick Black into cutting at W9 with his move B8. Black however calmly cuts at B8. White's attack has misfired and now she's left with two cutting points, a and b. This bad aji resulting from an overly aggressive line of play, is called amarigatachi.

--DieterVerhofstadt



BobMcGuigan I've seen the term amarigatachi used when, say, White attacks Black but fails to benefit adequately from the attack. Not sure what the roots of this word are. Gatachi is a vocalized version of katachi, or shape. amari is one of those words difficult to translate, but it might mean "left over". That would be consistent with the idea that amarigatachi is inadequate shape left over after attacking.

Charles Matthews The concept is well illustrated in the first section of Chapter 2 of Attack and Defense, though James Davies didn't use the Japanese term there. The article on Huang Longshi at [ext] http://www.msoworld.com/mindzine/news/orient/go/history/longshi.html has an interesting comment, too.

Andre Engels Not sure whether it helps any, but an English translation of 'Amarigatachi' that I have seen once or twice is 'overdeveloped shape'.



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