men chi

    Keywords: Go term

Chinese: 门吃 (mén chī)
Japanese: -
Korean: -

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门吃 (mén chī) is a Chinese go term that refers to an elementary capturing technique by atari, such as B1 here.

For this term, 门 (mén) means "door", and 吃 (chī) means "eat". Observe how the black+circle and B1 stones causes the a point to look like a "door".

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Notice that if W2 tries to escape by the "door", which is the only possible route for escape, then B3 "closes the door" and capture the White stones.


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