Territory Example 1
Keywords: Strategy
The position is from the first game of the 2003 Kisei between Yamashita Keigo and O Rissei. Yamashita holds White.
- The black left is secure territory.
- The black lower right is also territory, but his group is surrounded. If White gets both a and b, Black may have to play inside his territory. The left does not feature such a problem, except of course if White were able to push through at c then d after a ko. That is quite unlikely to happen.
- The black top is not territory but a framework close to becoming territory. In fact, due to Black's attempts to cut down White's huge moyo to size, his own top was successfully invaded.
- The white center right is not territory but a large framework.
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