Empty triangle

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  Difficulty: Introductory   Keywords: Shape, Go term

Chinese: 空三角 (kong1 san1 jiao3)
Japanese: 空き三角 (akisankaku)
Korean: 빈삼각 (bin sam gak)

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Empty triangle

This shape is an empty triangle, empty referring to the unoccupied point at circle. Typically, the empty triangle is bad, being inefficient and prone to shortage of liberties. Empty triangle is also sometimes called the devil's shape (onigatachi), because it brings to mind the long nose of one kind of Japanese demon.

In contrast, the full triangle, with a White stone at circle, is good shape. However, sometimes an empty triangle is the best move: good empty triangle.

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Example

W1 is a hane on the second line. Black may fear what happens if he blocks. In the left diagram he creates an empty triangle. Things get worse with W3, wrapping around it and reducing the liberties to 3. In the right diagram, B2 forces W3 to connect and B4 creates good shape with three in a row.



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