The Further Evolution of Amateurs' Knowledge
(2011 - 2014)
2013 - The Art of Capturing - Black's
Ko-Threats on the Left Side
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For the application with an "early" ko, we will calculate Black's ko-threats after White's moves from |
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It may be a bit counter-intuitive, but we will see that the number of Black's ko-threats in not effected by this measure. The following table gives a summary of the results of our detailed sequences that are given thereafter. Move Page Seven Six Five Liberties With correct choice by White, Black cannot get more than two ko-threats only. You will recognise that |
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Black may consider to pre-empt the cases |
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Please note that we assume White's group to have seven liberties, i.e. the main line of Joachim's Ko-Semeai, where White inserts her own kikashi in the upper left corner ( Move 1st Again, with White's correct choice, Black cannot get more than two ko-threats. With one nakade Exchange played, White must choose Not very surprisingly, the cases | |