Small Life
Difficulty: Intermediate Keywords: Go term
Small life is a term that indicates the player to be forced into living small, as opposed to living with a decent amount of territory and/or weakening the opponent's surrounding structure, usually in gote too.
In this modern [1] 3-3 invasion pattern, White adds a stone on the second line with
. If she omitted that ...
[1] bugcat: What's "modern" about
? The modern (or hypermodern) move would be the continuation with a second push, rather than making a hane exchange. Both the "new" and "old" 3-3 variations after
stem from
.
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