How to respond to an approach
Difficulty: Intermediate Keywords: Opening, Joseki, Strategy
An approach move is a move that is played close to opposing stones, perhaps threatening to attack them. This page explains the most common basic responses to such a move.
Approach Examples
approaches the marked stone
Possible answers
The most common answers to approach moves are extending away, blocking, pincering and attaching.
Extend away from the approach
attaches the approach
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Tenuki
As they say tenuki is always an option. Responding to an approach is not mandatory, and tenuki may often be the best response.
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