Ear point

    Keywords: Shape, Go term

Two known similar usages.

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Ear point reduction

The ear of Black's marked one-point jump is the point with white+circle on it. It's a typical reduction technique.

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Ear of two-point jump

With a two-point jump in the centre of the board, the number of ways of cutting is quite large. From the point of view of shape, occupying an ear point (said to have been called that by Kitani Minoru) sets up some of the best sequences. White plays at the marked point, or a, b, c.


White's follow-up to an ear point play.

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Stylish preparation to cut

For example White makes a table shape and leaves two cutting points at d and e.

Charles Matthews

Tamsin would like to note: The table shape is strong, but an incomplete table shape can be subject to a table point play, similar to taking the fourth point of a bamboo joint.


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