What's your favourite chapter from Tesuji?

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What's your favourite chapter from Tesuji?

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I'm fast appreciating the quality & sheer amount of information in this small book. What chapters are your favourites? It might be a chapter that is fun to go through, or a chapter that was instrumental in increasing your strength, or a chapter that is good to keep re-reading.

My favourite is Making Shape, because it's introducing me to a lot of brilliant tesuji that I didn't really know anything about (e.g. invading an enclosure with 2 side extensions by making a cross-cut).

My second favourite is the chapter on capturing races, because squeezing, stone pagodas, etc, are so cool to read out!
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In a book like this everything is so important that it is dangerous to have favorites.
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Jujube wrote:My favourite is Making Shape, because it's introducing me to a lot of brilliant tesuji that I didn't really know anything about (e.g. invading an enclosure with 2 side extensions by making a cross-cut).
If you enjoy this topic Making Good Shape is worth checking out. This is one of my favorite problem books.
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I have the book but and I like the first chapter. The problems are quite difficult and the example game commentary is a bit over my head. It's one for the future at least :)
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