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viewtopic.php?p=205751#p205751Charles Matthews wrote:
RobertJasiek wrote:
Charles, territory and influence are insufficient. As I have explained in a different thread, dynamic positional judgement must consist not only of connection and life statuses and current influence, but also of: development directions; neutral stones; statuses of stability and of life and death of imagined invasion groups; options; aji; imagined reductions and invasions; local potential; thickness; imagined best use or transformation of influence, thickness and potential; imagined good fights.
Doubtless these are all necessary; but are they sufficient? Please give adequate detail.
The whole book Positional Judgement 2 - Dynamics provides the adequate details for each mentioned aspect. Some of them also rely on reading, counting or positional judgement of territory (see Vol. 1). Althogether, the aspects provide 95%+ of what is sufficient in practice for dynamic positional judgement, IMO, according to my observation in my own games and the related study of professional games.