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Strategy of go - introductory
  Difficulty: Beginner   Keywords: Strategy

This page is for beginners who so far have just understood the page rules of Go - introductory. Advanced beginners and kyu players please also see Pages for Beginners and Beginner Study Section.


Tactical Connection

A tactical connection solidly connects stones of the same colour.

[Diagram]
A tactical connection

See also solid connection.

The advantages of connected stones over stones that aren't connected are enormous. For example connected stones definitely share all liberties, eyes, chances to connect further.



Strategic Connection

A strategic connection connects stones of the same colour on a large scale. The opponent will have difficulties in cutting them apart; but skillful strategy might still succeed in cutting at a later time in the game.

[Diagram]
A strategic connection


Strategic Group

In order to achieve any objective on the go board, you should make a group or groups to do that. Only a very little experience is enough to show that tactical connections alone are not sufficient. One must use some appropriate combination of tactically-connected units (often called chains).

Eye

Also see TwoEyes.

Life

Death

Coexistence

See seki.


The page basic strategies list shows how the overall strategy of the game might appear with the experience of about 100 games.

See also Basic Strategy of Go Discussion.



This is a copy of the living page "Strategy of go - introductory" at Sensei's Library.
(OC) 2004 the Authors, published under the OpenContent License V1.0.