Placement

    Keywords: Life & Death, Go term

Chinese: 透点 (tòu diǎn) 点 (diǎn) Japanese: 置き (oki)
Korean:

A placement is a play inside the opponent's group, mostly on a vital point.

A placement is understood as disconnected from one's existing stones from one's group; to succeed it should be difficult to defend against. (It's more of a tesuji than a speculative invasion.)

Example:

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Artificial example

After the placement at B1, Black can connect out, either at a or at b.

--Dieter

See Nakade and Vital Point.


Here's an example of a placement in a life-and-death situation:

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placement



B1 kills the white corner as follows:

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placement



White is dead due to bent four in the corner.

--Bob McGuigan


beginner:(22K) i disagree with --Bob McGuigan

 because white can play like in the next game
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placement

MrTenuki: Thanks to B3, the white group is definitely alive now. B3 should be played at W4, as you have already shown in the diagram below.



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placement

MrTenuki: B5 at a makes the second eye false and kills the entire group.



beginner:now white got 2 eyes for sure no mater where black play next the only way black can really kill white here is in the next example

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placement



try to make white alive if u dont belive me.

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Why A18 is bad

UffeHellum: OK, I'll try Now white lives.

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Why A18 is bad

And here:

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Why A18 is bad

W6 on B2 Now white lives.

MrTenuki: You might want to take a look at the following pages: L group, L+1 group, L+2 group.

beginner(22K) tnx for the (a) in the before last example i didnt notice it. so as long as black in the (b)or (c) point in his secand stone the white group in dead


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