Eye-Stealing Tesuji

    Keywords: Tesuji, Shape

Chinese: 点方 (dian3 fang1)
Japanese:
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The eye-stealing tesuji typically involves the following shape:

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Eye-stealing tesuji

The circled spot is the crucial point for making shape.

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Tesuji in action

If White plays there, the shape is destroyed. Usually, the white+circle stone is in place, so that Black eventually will have to prevent the cut and connect at a, ending up with a clumsy shape.

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Clumsy shape, no eye

This shape-destroying move effectively steals an eye from Black.

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Nice shape, making an eye

For comparison, this diagram.


See also the pages in the Eyes Collection, and Protecting the cut - example 1.

The same information, more compactly presented, is to be found at Learn the Eye-Stealing Tesuji.


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