Table Point Play

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A table point is the unoccupied intersection which would enable one side to complete a table shape. A special case of the eye-stealing tesuji, a play here can be very telling, as in this example from a game between Takagawa Shukaku and Kitani Minoru:

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Takagawa Shukaku (Black) versus Kitani Minoru, 1956


Here, a is a table point. Takagawa played here with powerful effect:

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Play continued as follows:

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Black acquired powerful influence and separated white's centre group from the corner, while white+square was injured. Kitani was under constant attack for the remainder of the game, which ended in his resignation on move 143.



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