Does this common gap of stones at the edge of a board have a name?
I would like to be able to call it something while I am experimenting with it, and also find out a bit more about it online.
Thanks.
Does this have a name?
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Re: Does this have a name?
I think I am OK with the 1 point gap.
The first time I came across the 2 point gap, I dived straight in with, "If one hane is good, double hane must be better". It did not end well.
The first time I came across the 2 point gap, I dived straight in with, "If one hane is good, double hane must be better". It did not end well.
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Re: Does this have a name?
YeahPeterPeter wrote:The first time I came across the 2 point gap, I dived straight in with, "If one hane is good, double hane must be better". It did not end well.
There are other nasty things to consider, like for example this one (if one of the players descends and the other does not): http://senseis.xmp.net/?MonkeyJump
Beware of it. Our fellow DDKs love this tesuji, as it is simple to remember and can eat quite a bit of enemy territory in the endgame.
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Re: Does this have a name?
Monkey jumps are great fun if your opponent allows you to do one, but assuming they reply properly and close it off, it feels like there should be something better available than allowing it to become Ed's position:
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Re: Does this have a name?
Hi Peter. This might be normal. One hane is sente end game.
Solid connection (instead of the tiger's mouth) allows black to get another sente end game move.
If white doesn't respond to black 3, then black has good follow ups.
This sort of hane is good to play even in the opening (EDIT: Not always but often! There are few absolutes in go). Think about some common joseki:
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I think that it is very difficult, even for dan players. This one is easier, but still difficult.EdLee wrote:Peter, You mean for studying the end game? That's a good one to study. Here's another (simpler):
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Re: Does this have a name?
From this position:
...I had been looking at 'a' as the natural follow-up.
From here: If Black can invade at 'c', and not get captured by one individual White move, he can capture
and 
.
More likely though is that Black will have to play at 'd' to stop white playing there and capturing
and 
.
Is this why 'b' is better than 'a': because 'a' ends in gote?
From here: If Black can invade at 'c', and not get captured by one individual White move, he can capture
and .More likely though is that Black will have to play at 'd' to stop white playing there and capturing
and .Is this why 'b' is better than 'a': because 'a' ends in gote?
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Re: Does this have a name?
For me the natural follow-up to a Hane on the second line is connecting, otherwise the intial Hane might get captured.
That's why extending downwards to 'a' is not good in most cases because the cutting point at 'b' remains. So any play from White at 'c' is forcing you to defend at 'b' if you don't want to lose your stones. In other words you turn 'c' into Sente for White, which is generally unwanted in the endgame. If this border on the other hand is the last play on the board then descending to 'a' is the correct play because it will give you one more point compared to just connecting at b.
Note that 'a' never works after you extended downwards. White just plays 'b' and captures your stones. It's two liberties for White against one liberty for you.
Since we mentioned Sente in the endgame: In my experience in most cases Black will want to play like this because he can keep Sente while finishing off this border (depends of course on the whole board, e.g. the remaining endgame). If White does not answer , Black can play at 
or monkey-jump at 'a', which is big.
Since we mentioned Sente in the endgame: In my experience in most cases Black will want to play like this because he can keep Sente while finishing off this border (depends of course on the whole board, e.g. the remaining endgame). If White does not answer
, Black can play at or monkey-jump at 'a', which is big.
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Re: Does this have a name?
No. They are both gote.PeterPeter wrote:From this position: ...I had been looking at 'a' as the natural follow-up.
From here: If Black can invade at 'c', and not get captured by one individual White move, he can capture
More likely though is that Black will have to play at 'd' to stop white playing there and capturing
Is this why 'b' is better than 'a': because 'a' ends in gote?
Black needs to reply at 5. Why?
Because White threatens this capture. If
captures at 5, 
takes back at 1. That is called a snapback. The position after the exchange of the 
and 
stones is better for White than the original position, because in the original position White cannot continue with 
. That is why Black needs to connect with 
in the previous diagram. If he doesn't he has just lost points for nothing.Compare these positions.
The two sides of the board are independent.
Now. What about "c"?
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Re: Does this have a name?
That's because you are not a beginner. It is a very common beginners mistake, indeed perhaps what the majority do. I know that when I was a beginner I did it too*. Probably because to the beginner eye it looks like you are getting a bigger area than with the solid connect. But that's overlooking the sente gain/loss that can happen later so actually it is smaller.SoDesuNe wrote:For me the natural follow-up to a Hane on the second line is connecting,
* Actually looking back at my DDK games on KGS it seems I was a big fan of the 1st line hanging connection, which in general terms** is not as bad as the descent, but worse than the solid connection.
** There are of course certain situations in which the 1st line descent, 1st line hanging connection, 2nd line solid connection, and 2nd line hanging connection are the best move.
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Re: Does this have a name?
Uberdude wrote:That's because you are not a beginner. It is a very common beginners mistake, indeed perhaps what the majority do. I know that when I was a beginner I did it too*. Probably because to the beginner eye it looks like you are getting a bigger area than with the solid connect. But that's overlooking the sente gain/loss that can happen later so actually it is smaller.SoDesuNe wrote:For me the natural follow-up to a Hane on the second line is connecting,
* Actually looking back at my DDK games on KGS it seems I was a big fan of the 1st line hanging connection, which in general terms** is not as bad as the descent, but worse than the solid connection.
** There are of course certain situations in which the 1st line descent, 1st line hanging connection, 2nd line solid connection, and 2nd line hanging connection are the best move.
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At some point, doesn't thinking have to go on?
— Winona Adkins
Visualize whirled peas.
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Visualize whirled peas.
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Re: Does this have a name?
There's another problem I've seen with descending, and that a lot of my opponents don't seem to thing about. ThisPeterPeter wrote:From this position: ...I had been looking at 'a' as the natural follow-up.
From here: If Black can invade at 'c', and not get captured by one individual White move, he can capture
More likely though is that Black will have to play at 'd' to stop white playing there and capturing
Is this why 'b' is better than 'a': because 'a' ends in gote?
doesn't work here, but if there's weakness on the lower part, this peep might be a lot of trouble. It's rarer than what has been shown so far, but it's another reason why I usually prefer to play the solid connection.