Never ignore a shoulder hit

  Difficulty: Beginner   Keywords: Shape, Tactics, Proverb

Cho Hun-hyeon, in his Lectures on Go Techniques, says: one should never ignore a shoulder hit.

[Diagram]

Answering a shoulder hit

W2, or a, is normally the response to a shoulder hit. For more analysis of the lines of play resulting from these, see shoulder hit

[Diagram]

Ignoring a shoulder hit

The difference from the previous diagram is huge.

Since ignoring a shoulder hit is equivalent to playing an armpit hit, ie playing white+circle after B1 is already in place, see the armpit hit page for more analysis of why ignoring a shoulder hit is bad.


See also


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