Life In 19x19

Echoing David's comments, Ma's book has many great examples of flexibility and creativity in Go. The linkage to the stragems is sometimes rather tenuous but that doesn't really matter. I too remember that chapter and applied the strategy in one of my games: r1 is sente to kill the group on the right, but if I play it too early it is obvious what is going on so I needed to find a way to play it naturally in an attack on the group on the lower side.

Uberdude wrote:The linkage to the stragems is sometimes rather tenuous but that doesn't really matter.

Maybe the linkage is there, but the translation is weird. I know in Chinese there aren't prepositions, so "Crossing the sea with treachery", could just as easily be "Crossing the sea of treachery", or "Crossing the treacherous sea.", which makes sense in this example.

SmoothOper wrote:

Uberdude wrote:The linkage to the stragems is sometimes rather tenuous but that doesn't really matter.

Maybe the linkage is there, but the translation is weird. I know in Chinese there aren't prepositions, so "Crossing the sea with treachery", could just as easily be "Crossing the sea of treachery", or "Crossing the treacherous sea.", which makes sense in this example.

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