Archive for the ‘sacrifice’ Category

New lesson - “Fighting techniques - kikashi”

Friday, June 22nd, 2007

I wrote a new lesson: “Fighting techniques - kikashi”.

It is based on variations on move 33 from the 4th Honinbo game. After introducing some basic sacrifice and kikashi techniques, the main question is how should White respond to Black’s cut with 1 in the following diagram, given that Black’s ideal is to get both A and B in sente:

Black sacrifices a stone to get kikashi on the outside.

You can read the whole article on the main website.

The art of sacrifice

Tuesday, March 27th, 2007

I wrote a new lesson titled “The art of sacrifice” - inspired by a game I watched on IGS today.

It is about the following position (White to play):

Dia. 1

Read it if you want to find out how Dia.1 above is related to Dia.2 below :-)

Samurai fighting several enemies

Dia. 2