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Complex efficiency |
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Black has three framework stones and two framework links to maintain. After |
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Failure to connect |
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If you chose F were you tempted by the capture of the single white stone? If so you must learn to think on a larger scale! Or were you minded to make really certain of the right-hand framework link? If so you were guilty of overconnecting! However, what is worse is that the other framework connection has been neglected. After |
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Underestimating the danger |
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If you chose option D, you probably understood the possibility of disconnection of the lower framework link. However, you did not appreciate the fragility of the other link. In the diagram |
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Defending with efficiency |
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If you chose option A you can congratulate yourself on seeing how to secure both framework connections. But did you appreciate that options B and C also repaired the weakness? And did you consider that the three options differ in their effect on the final boundary? The diagram shows how Black would like to respond to the local incursion, |
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Kikashi first! |
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If you are a beginner and you chose option E, before you congratulate yourself on finding the maximum play, first consider if you made this choice for the right reason. Did you see the atari at B? If |
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