Do not answer the capping play with a knight's move

    Keywords: Shape, Tactics, Theory, Proverb

An exception to the proverb "Answer The Capping Play with a Knights Move" can be found in the Chinese Fuseki, where ...

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Low Chinese Fuseki

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Low Chinese Fuseki

tderz: B3 enlarges the potential moyo and W4 defends the corner,
while keeping cutting aji around b and invasion aji in the c-area.
Here it can be noted, that the common proverb "Answer the capping play with a keima" (which would be the play a) is not followed.
The reasons are that


... to protect this cutting point, Black often plays the following sequence:

[Diagram]

Low Chinese Fuseki

tderz: an invasion at c can now not directly link up with d.


Dieter: I don't think an exception to a proverb should be called the opposite of that proverb. I'd rather put this exception on the proverb's page. Otherwise it appears as if both are a rule of thumb, with equal relevance.

As a sidenote, there are a few editing conventions, such as marking letters in italics, not bold, and using increasing alphabetic values. Not that I care too much.

tderz: Dieter,
i) With regard to the page title: YES, suggestions for different names are welcome.
Unkx80 lately explained s.th. about librarians, who can change titles.
I am not, thus I cannot fulfil your idea at this moment.

ii) Sorry, that I am not aware of these few editing conventions.
W.r.t. the first one I thought that bold letters increase readability (imagine the a in a text, an a is seen easier than an a). Of course I can edit it in bold italics.

iii) W.r.t. the 2nd one, I agree to the level that letters should be consecutive in a certain sequence and vice versa in a 2nd sequence.

A sequence can also comprise only a single move, e.g. above invasion s.

Two different sequences can have different starting values.
This ensures that each sequence has only consecutive letters (if they do not share the same location with another sequence) and increases readability of the diagram, as it thus becomes clearer that e.g. sequence m-n-o-p is not the continuation of a-b-c-d which would be the case if named e-f-g-h.

I sometimes do not chose the a as starting value for the reason that a is a stopword in the text,easily to be confused with the most common English word a.

Tapir: Dieter is one of those librarians btw :) ("Answer The Capping Play with a Knights Move/Exception" or even better "When not to answer the capping play with a knight's move")

unkx80: Tderz, w.r.t. librarians, I refer you to levels of access.

Thank you, unkx80.


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