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by sigger
Tue Mar 22, 2016 3:00 pm
Forum: Amateurs
Topic: Anything other than a 1 moku is a loss.
Replies: 79
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Re: Anything other than a 1 moku is a loss.

In making this a goal, my motivation is to better understand the whole concept of "exchange" and how to make even exchanges whenever needed, even when the advantages being exchanged are completely different from each other.

More theoretically speaking, I'll repeat what I've already said in the ...
by sigger
Mon Mar 21, 2016 12:59 pm
Forum: Beginners
Topic: Shortage of liberties question
Replies: 12
Views: 8965

Re: Shortage of liberties question

Thank you everyone for your help. I can see now specifically that I did not consider 4 in this position shown in schawipp's diagram:

$$W
$$ ---------------------
$$ . . . . X . . . . . |
$$ T 3 2 X X X O O 1 . |
$$ . 4 O O X O O X X . |
$$ , . . T O X X . . . |
$$ . . O . . . . X ...
by sigger
Sun Mar 20, 2016 9:38 pm
Forum: Beginners
Topic: Shortage of liberties question
Replies: 12
Views: 8965

Shortage of liberties question

Hi, I have a question about a diagram showing how to utilize a shortage of liberties (Diagram 33-3 in An Encyclopedia of Go Principles by Richard Bozulich)

The first diagram shows how if white tries to link its stones, black can use 3 to prevent it.

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