The Decisive Moment in the Historical Line
of Play (2002 - 2007)
B - Capture of Black's Centre Group
(Referenced by 374; 520; 890; 902; 904) We present the classical Capture Variation ( 757), which White starts by capturing Black's centre group, with the move at . |
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White here - as in the Go World article - immediately continues the semeai in the upper right with . White will not exchange for Black any more, because this would result in a loss of two points, when the White group containing is captured. |
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Black: White: Result since : The Semeai Variation, and the (classical) Capture Variation are of equal value. Again, the total score is Black + 2. But without Black's reduction () of White's top right corner, White would have six additional points of territory (), and win by four points. | |