Thickness Example 11

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Dieter : Here, Black's influence has gone to waste. Yet, White has got some work before Black's thickness has vanished as well.

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Here, Black can even said to be alive but his influence has gone to waste as much as in the previous diagram.

anonymous: It seems too harsh on black to say his thickness has "gone to waste". In the first diagram there are three extra white stones relative to black; the second diagram has four extra white stones. Presumably black put some of these missing black stones to good use elsewhere.

Dieter: I am just comparing local positions to try and understand thickness and influence. I am not discussing the value of moves versus playing elsewhere, for which I second the usage of whole boards, displaying the play elsewhere.

However you are right that globally, Black will have benefited from his intial thick position. That is exactly the point: his thickness has not gone to waste; his influence has.


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