Jaw strap
is the jaw strap, a rarely used term for a form of net.
Herman Hiddema: Can anyone show a sequence that captures if white stretches to a? I've been puzzling on it for quite a while, but nothing seems to work. Nothing can work really, because if black does not take a liberty, white can always play b. The obvious move seems to be c, but if white plays d the result is quite disastrous with black losing all his stones in the corner.
Imagist: That is difficult. I've got that black sets up a short ladder that leads white into a net but then white threatens to connect at , and when black defends with
, white kills the marked stones with
.
Q: is this synonymous with Davies' "loose ladder"?
JadedMage: I wonder if there is not a mistake in the diagrams above. The "agohimo" that I found on a Japanese website is just a basic tesuji, as shown.
Here, black does not have to deal with a shortage of liberties, as opposed to the original diagram.