Attack From A Distance
The principle to attack from a distance gives more direction to the general question how to attack. In particular it warns against
- Attachments as attacking moves. See don't attach when attacking but also understand the idea of making the opponent heavy.
- Diagonal approaches as attacking moves [1]
In general, if the attacking stones are close, a counter-attack becomes more effective.
In contrast, the capping play [2] and the keima (see attacking with keima) keep some distance to the object of the attack. Those are basic attacking techniques.
In a broader sense this principle can be understood to attack on a large scale, including the technique of leaning attack
See also
[1]
In isolation, the diagonal approach is answered by a simple block. Now Black has become stronger and is rather weak.
Here, does not really attack the White stones. Up to
, he has rather carried out a leaning manoeuver in order to gain strength in the center and for his stones on the right.
[2] The capping play is the basic move for attack because that's exactly where the defensive move of the one-point jump would come. And why the latter is the basic defensive move, is adequately explained at its own page.