Overconcentrated shape
Overconcentrated shape means too many stones (of one colour) in one part of the board for the work they do; so shape that is inefficient because it's too solid. Being overconcentrated is worse than most beginners think: stones can be added to shore up a thin position, but overconcentrated is forever.
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Dosaku (White) - Yasui Chitetsu (Black)
Dosaku, the undisputed best player of his time, brought go to a new level of theoretical knowledge. It was he who introduced the concept of tewari analysis. Applying this, he tried to overconcentrate the shapes of his opponents, like in this 1670 game against Chitetsu.
xela: in GoGoD, the date of this game is given as 1674-08-30.
Joona Karjalainen?: Interestingly enough, this position reoccured on 2000-02-10 in a game between Cho U and Akiyama Jiro.
After this sequence the black formation at the top is very strong. However the influence of the black groups overlaps in the marked area. This means that these stones have not been developed to their full efficiency on the board: they are overconcentrated.
--Stefan
Charles By Shusaku's day, I think all pros knew about avoiding overconcentration traps.
The Japanese term korigatachi literally means "stiff shape". Koru, the Japanese verb from which kori derives, means congealing, clotting, gettting stiff shoulders, be fixated on something, concentrate overly much on something, be absorbed in something, be fascinated by something. It is distinct from (although perhaps a cognate of) the verb kooru, meaning freeze.
Fr: korigatachi
See also
- Heavy versus Overconcentrated
- Overconcentrated is not the same as dumpling shape