Tesuji

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Chinese: 手筋 (shŏujīn)
Japanese: 手筋 (tesuji)
Korean: 맥 or 脈 (Maek)

A tesuji 手筋 is a clever play, the best play in a local position, a skillful move, a special tactic. Tesujis come in all forms and shapes, some are more known than others. See good play for other ways of being complimentary. See suji or technique for more.

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Tesuji

Capturing

Kageyama says "If you want to capture stones, hold up two fingers and say to yourself: 'Can I capture with the net?' and 'Can I capture with the ladder?'"

There are many other capturing tesuji:

Attacking

General cases of clever attack. These plays often help to make a capture.

Defending

Making life.

Snapback

Yose Tesuji

Tesuji from common end-game situations.

Unsorted

Collection

Tesuji exercises

Books

See also

  • Tsumego: Tesuji are often used to solve tsumego.
  • Stupid Moves: In some cases, players just cannot stop themselves and they play anti-sujis, or patently bad moves.
  • Goproblems.com: There are several tesuji problems to be found there.
  • Don't forget to learn the difference between Tesuji and Myoshu

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