Resist
To resist is to avoid doing what your opponent would like you to do. It is the natural response to a forcing move to resist wherever feasible.
Question: Is there a term in Japanese for not playing the expected response to a kikashi?
xela: This comes under the general heading of kiai ("fighting spirit")?
From Attack and Defense:
This position arises from one of the 35PointJosekis where white invades under the
3-5 point at
3-3. What if afterwards white tries to force with
?
Black is submissive and connects with
in bad shape (empty triangle). Black has been completely forced.
is light (kikashi).
Black resists being forced by playing
. This stone is much more useful than simply connecting at a. White cannot cut directly without being captured.
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, black connects his stones anyway and white is ![[Diagram]](../../diagrams/39/55d83b8ed4f9467674f214b75b602590.png)
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