bao chi

    Keywords: Go term

Chinese: 抱吃 (bào chī)
Japanese: -
Korean: -

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抱吃 (bào chī) is a Chinese go term that refers to an elementary capturing technique by atari, such as B1 here. It is very similar to a shunt.

For this term, 吃 (chī) means "eat". 抱 (bào), can be roughly understood as "to surround using arms", such as a "hug" or "embrace". Try to picture the Black stones as part of the body of a person and B1 as an arm extending to "hug" the White person, preventing White from escaping.

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If W2 tries to escape, then B3 completes the surrounding by "hugging", and captures the White stones.


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