The Decisive Moment in the Historical Line
of Play (2002 - 2007)
It Does Not Help After a Black Mistake
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(Referenced by If Black has, carelessly, lost one liberty of his top right group - for example while trying to reduce White's territory (please assume the |
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It would be a grave mistake to play at |
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Black needs six moves to occupy all the liberties, at the bottom, of White's |

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-exchange here) - White can punish him by choosing what we call the "Punishment Semeai" - the combination of the Capture Variation (White captures Black's centre, and Black recaptures), and the Semeai Variation, wherein White will not play oki at
, but will take a Black liberty with
.
anyway, and it would now be White, who had lost a move.
-group (Black
and
are answered by White locally). Black's large group did not have more than six liberties at the very beginning, so Black loses the semeai by one move.
