Screening kikashi
Keywords: Strategy
Several kikashi stones played in one area with the intention of slowing down the opponent, who can capture them piecemeal.
There is a famous example, about which I complain at probe popular misconceptions.
Here is a less usual example.
This is from a game Hasegawa Akira-Kato Shin 1934-11-28. Black has just played tenuki from the centre group (
stones) in order to play
, something like the last big point.
White is very thick to the right, and has a problem about how to attack in the centre.
White's stones
,
and
are mostly for attacking influence: White can't expect much direct territory from them.
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