Move one space further with snapback
Difficulty: Intermediate Keywords: Tactics
The motto ‘move one space further with snapback’ means one can use the threat of a snapback to make a larger encroachment along the edge upon enemy territory than a more vulgar move achieves. This can be useful in life and death and in the endgame.
Table of contents | Table of diagrams The essential position Black to play and kill The killing snapback Failure: white lives The position in the endgame The snapback in the endgame No snapback: inferior yose |
Killing
Solution
If White a, black will capture three stones with snapback.
uses snapback to move one space further into White’s group, ruining his second eye.
Failure
Because he did not threaten a snapback, Black could not get far enough in to hurt White’s eyespace.
In the endgame
In the endgame, the same technique increases one’s profit and helps retain sente.