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Table of ContentsAttacking...........................................................................................................................................................4
Driving tesuji...........................................................................................................................................4Eye stealing tesuji (bata bata tesuji).......................................................................................................5Shortage of liberties (damezumari).........................................................................................................6
Throw in (horikomi / uchikaki).................................................................................................................7Capturing..........................................................................................................................................................8Connect-and-Die (oi-otoshi)....................................................................................................................8Crane's nest (tsuru no sugomori)............................................................................................................9Ladder..................................................................................................................................................10
Straight ladder (shicho)....................................................................................................................10Loose ladder (yurumi shicho)...........................................................................................................11
Net (geta)..............................................................................................................................................12Patting the Racoon's Belly (tanuki no hara tsuzumi).............................................................................14Squeeze (shibori)..................................................................................................................................15
Connecting techniques...................................................................................................................................16Tactical connection....................................................................................................................................16
Bamboo joint (take fu)...........................................................................................................................16
Box connection.....................................................................................................................................17Bridge under (watari)............................................................................................................................18First line connection.........................................................................................................................18Second line connection....................................................................................................................19First line ogeima connection............................................................................................................20Keima side connection.....................................................................................................................21Cut threat clamp..............................................................................................................................22
Connecting by capturing.......................................................................................................................23Ponnuki............................................................................................................................................23Tortoise shell....................................................................................................................................24Double crosscut to connect.............................................................................................................25
Diagonal connection (kosumi)..............................................................................................................26Good eye potential................................................................................................................................27
Mouth shape....................................................................................................................................27Parallelogram..................................................................................................................................28Table shape.....................................................................................................................................29Tippy table.......................................................................................................................................30Square good shape.........................................................................................................................31
Keima protecting the cutting point.........................................................................................................32Tiger (mouth) shape..............................................................................................................................33
Hanging connection.........................................................................................................................33Trumpet connection.........................................................................................................................34Honeycomb.....................................................................................................................................35
Trapezium shape..................................................................................................................................36Solid...........................................................................................................................................................37
Solid connection (simple connection)...................................................................................................37
Pole connection (staff connection)........................................................................................................38Strategic connection..................................................................................................................................39
Elephant jump.......................................................................................................................................39Extension..............................................................................................................................................40
Two-space extension.......................................................................................................................40Three-space extension....................................................................................................................40
Jump.....................................................................................................................................................41One-space jump..............................................................................................................................41Two-space jump..............................................................................................................................41
Knight's move.......................................................................................................................................42Small knight's move.........................................................................................................................42Large knight's move.........................................................................................................................42
Lion shape............................................................................................................................................43Underneath attachment........................................................................................................................44
Defending.......................................................................................................................................................45Winning race..............................................................................................................................................45
Under the stones (ishi no shita)............................................................................................................45
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Descent................................................................................................................................................46Ugly descent / ugly sagari.....................................................................................................................47
Making eyes or eye-space.........................................................................................................................48Placement preventing the tower peep..................................................................................................48
Miai Tesuji.......................................................................................................................................................49Grappling hook tesuji............................................................................................................................49Nose tesuji / nose attachment (hana-zuke)..........................................................................................50
Clamping tesuji (hasami tsuke) ............................................................................................................51Double threat........................................................................................................................................52Shape Tesuji...................................................................................................................................................53
Ear-cleaning tesuji (mimi-souji).............................................................................................................53Shortage of Liberties Tesuji.............................................................................................................................54
Snapback (utte-gaeshi).........................................................................................................................54Double snapback..................................................................................................................................55Move one space further with snapback................................................................................................56Belly Attachment tesuji..........................................................................................................................57Twirl......................................................................................................................................................58
Yose Tesuji......................................................................................................................................................59Endgame Tesuji 1.................................................................................................................................59
Miscellaneous.................................................................................................................................................60
Sente getting tesuji...............................................................................................................................60Wedge (warikomi).................................................................................................................................61Sources...........................................................................................................................................................62
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Attacking
Driving tesuji
Black to playSGF: tesuji-driving-1
Black to playSGF: tesuji-driving-2
White to playSGF: tesuji-driving-3
Black to playSGF: tesuji-driving-4
White to playSGF: tesuji-driving-5
Black to playSGF: tesuji-driving-
Black to playSGF: tesuji-driving-
Black to playSGF: tesuji-driving-
Black to playSGF: tesuji-driving-
Black to playSGF: tesuji-driving-
Black to playSGF: tesuji-driving-
Black to playSGF: tesuji-driving-
Black to playSGF: tesuji-driving-
Black to playSGF: tesuji-driving-
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Black to playSGF: tesuji-driving-
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Black to playSGF: tesuji-driving-
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Eye stealing tesuji (bata bata tesuji)
White to playSGF: tesuji-eye-stealing-1
White to playSGF: tesuji-eye-stealing-2
White to playSGF: tesuji-eye-stealing-3
White to play
SGF: tesuji-eye-stealing-4
Black to playSGF: tesuji-eye-stealing-
Black to playSGF: tesuji-eye-stealing-
Black to playSGF: tesuji-eye-stealing-
Black to playSGF: tesuji-eye-stealing-
Black to playSGF: tesuji-eye-stealing-
Black to playSGF: tesuji-eye-stealing-
Black to playSGF: tesuji-eye-stealing-
Black to playSGF: tesuji-eye-stealing-
Black to playSGF: tesuji-eye-stealing-
Black to playSGF: tesuji-eye-stealing-
Black to playSGF: tesuji-eye-stealing-
Black to playSGF: tesuji-eye-stealing-
Black to playSGF: tesuji-eye-stealing-
Black to playSGF: tesuji-eye-stealing-
Black to playSGF: tesuji-eye-stealing-
Black to playSGF: tesuji-eye-stealing-
Black to playSGF: tesuji-eye-stealing-
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Shortage of liberties (damezumari)Shortage of liberties is an acute lack of liberties. The player suffering from shortage of liberties is unable toachieve a desired objective because to achieve that objective
Black to playSGF: tesuji-shortage-liberties-1
Black to playSGF: tesuji-shortage-liberties-2
White to playSGF: tesuji-shortage-liberties-3
White to playSGF: tesuji-shortage-liberties-4
Black to playSGF: tesuji-shortage-liberties-
Black to playSGF: tesuji-shortage-liberties-
Black to playSGF: tesuji-shortage-liberties-
Black to playSGF: tesuji-shortage-liberties-
Black to playSGF: tesuji-shortage-liberties-
Black to playSGF: tesuji-shortage-liberties-
Black to playSGF: tesuji-shortage-liberties-
Black to playSGF: tesuji-shortage-liberties-
Black to playSGF: tesuji-shortage-liberties-
Black to playSGF: tesuji-shortage-liberties-
Black to playSGF: tesuji-shortage-liberties-
Black to playSGF: tesuji-shortage-liberties-
Black to playSGF: tesuji-shortage-liberties-
Black to playSGF: tesuji-shortage-liberties-
Black to playSGF: tesuji-shortage-liberties-
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Throw in (horikomi / uchikaki)A throw-in is a sacrifice stone played at the point where the enemy wants to connect, giving rise to a falseeye, shortage of liberties, snapback, oiotoshi (connect-and-die), or squeeze.
Black to playSGF: tesuji-throw-in-1
Black to playSGF: tesuji-throw-in-2
White to playSGF: tesuji-throw-in-3
Black to playSGF: tesuji-throw-in-4
Black to playSGF: tesuji-throw-in-5
Black to playSGF: tesuji-throw-in-
Black to playSGF: tesuji-throw-in-
Black to playSGF: tesuji-throw-in-
Black to playSGF: tesuji-throw-in-
Black to playSGF: tesuji-throw-in-
Black to playSGF: tesuji-throw-in-
Black to playSGF: tesuji-throw-in-
Black to playSGF: tesuji-throw-in-
Black to playSGF: tesuji-throw-in-
Black to playSGF: tesuji-throw-in-
Black to playSGF: tesuji-throw-in-
Black to playSGF: tesuji-throw-in-
Black to playSGF: tesuji-throw-in-
Black to playSGF: tesuji-throw-in-
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Capturing
Connect-and-Die (oi-otoshi)Oi-otoshi describes a situation where a stone or group of stones is put into atari in such a way that there isno escape. This occurs usually when the only way to save such a group is to connect, and that the resultinggroup is still in atari. Hence the related English terminology, connect-and-die
Black to playSGF: con-n-die-1
White to playSGF: con-n-die-2
White to playSGF: con-n-die-3
White to playSGF: con-n-die-4
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Crane's nest (tsuru no sugomori)The crane's nest tesuji is a classic tesuji used to capture fleeing stones. By default these stones are deadand the nest-holder only need to respond in case of white intervention.
White to playSGF: tesuji-cranes-nest-1
White to playSGF: tesuji-cranes-nest-2
White to playSGF: tesuji-cranes-nest-3
White to playSGF: tesuji-cranes-nest-4
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Ladder
Straight ladder (shicho)A straight ladder is a technique for capturing stones. At each step the attacker reduces the defender'sliberties from two to one.
Black to playSGF: tesuji-ladder-straight-1
Black to playSGF: tesuji-ladder-straight-2
Black to playSGF: tesuji-ladder-straight-3
Black to playSGF: tesuji-ladder-straight-
Black to playSGF: tesuji-ladder-straight-
Black to playSGF: tesuji-ladder-straight-
Black to playSGF: tesuji-ladder-straight-
Black to playSGF: tesuji-ladder-straight-
Black to playSGF: tesuji-ladder-straight-
Black to playSGF: tesuji-ladder-straight-
Black to playSGF: tesuji-ladder-straight-
Black to playSGF: tesuji-ladder-straight-
Black to playSGF: tesuji-ladder-straight-
Black to playSGF: tesuji-ladder-straight-
Black to playSGF: tesuji-ladder-straight-
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Loose ladder (yurumi shicho)In a loose ladder the stones to be captured have at most three liberties, and are constantly reduces back totwo liberties, then finally caught against side and captured.
Black to playSGF: tesuji-ladder-loose-1
Black to playSGF: tesuji-ladder-loose-2
White to playSGF: tesuji-ladder-loose-3
Black to playSGF: tesuji-ladder-loose-
Black to playSGF: tesuji-ladder-loose-
Black to playSGF: tesuji-ladder-loose-
Black to playSGF: tesuji-ladder-loose-
Black to playSGF: tesuji-ladder-loose-
Black to playSGF: tesuji-ladder-loose-
Black to playSGF: tesuji-ladder-loose-
Black to playSGF: tesuji-ladder-loose-
Black to playSGF: tesuji-ladder-loose-
Black to playSGF: tesuji-ladder-loose-
Black to playSGF: tesuji-ladder-loose-
Black to playSGF: tesuji-ladder-loose-
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Net (geta)A net is a technique where one or a few stones are captured by blocking the exits. A guiding principle is,generally, the firmer capture the better, unlesss building moyo. Leaving less room for bad aji.
White to playSGF: tesuji-net-1
White to playSGF: tesuji-net-2
White to playSGF: tesuji-net-3
Black to playSGF: tesuji-net-4
White to playSGF: tesuji-net-5
White to playSGF: tesuji-net-6
Black to playSGF: tesuji-net-7
Black to playSGF: tesuji-net-8
Black to playSGF: tesuji-net-9
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Black to playSGF: tesuji-net-10
White to playSGF: tesuji-net-11
White to playSGF: tesuji-net-12
White to playSGF: tesuji-net-13
Black to playSGF: tesuji-net-14
Black to playSGF: tesuji-net-15
White to playSGF: tesuji-net-
White to playSGF: tesuji-net-
White to playSGF: tesuji-net-
White to playSGF: tesuji-net-
White to playSGF: tesuji-net-
White to playSGF: tesuji-net-
White to playSGF: tesuji-net-
White to playSGF: tesuji-net-
White to playSGF: tesuji-net-
White to playSGF: tesuji-net-
White to playSGF: tesuji-net-
White to playSGF: tesuji-net-
White to play
SGF: tesuji-net-
White to play
SGF: tesuji-net-
White to play
SGF: tesuji-net-
White to playSGF: tesuji-net-
White to playSGF: tesuji-net-
White to playSGF: tesuji-net-
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Raccoon-dog drums his belly (tanuki no hara tsuzumi)
Black to playSGF: tesuji-raccoon-dog-1
Black to playSGF: tesuji-patting-the-racoon-2
Black to play (respond to white 11)SGF: tesuji-patting-the-racoon-3
Black to play
SGF: tesuji-patting-the-racoon-4
White to playSGF: tesuji-patting-the-racoon-
White to playSGF: tesuji-patting-the-racoon-
White to playSGF: tesuji-patting-the-racoon-
White to playSGF: tesuji-patting-the-racoon-
White to playSGF: tesuji-patting-the-racoon-
White to playSGF: tesuji-patting-the-racoon-
White to playSGF: tesuji-patting-the-racoon-
White to playSGF: tesuji-patting-the-racoon-
White to playSGF: tesuji-patting-the-racoon-
White to playSGF: tesuji-patting-the-racoon-
White to playSGF: tesuji-patting-the-racoon-
White to playSGF: tesuji-patting-the-racoon-
White to playSGF: tesuji-patting-the-racoon-
White to playSGF: tesuji-patting-the-racoon-
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Squeeze (shibori)The squeeze tesuji is a play by which you squeeze the opponent's stones into an inefficient dumpling shape.Often a successful squeeze includes sacrificing one or more stones to make the opponent's shape bad first.
The squeeze wrings out the liberties of a group of your opponent's stones by a combination of atari movesand/or atari threats.
Black to playSGF: tesuji-squeeze-1
White to playSGF: tesuji-squeeze-
White to playSGF: tesuji-squeeze-
White to playSGF: tesuji-squeeze-
White to playSGF: tesuji-squeeze-
White to playSGF: tesuji-squeeze-
White to playSGF: tesuji-squeeze-
White to playSGF: tesuji-squeeze-
White to playSGF: tesuji-squeeze-
White to playSGF: tesuji-squeeze-
White to playSGF: tesuji-squeeze-
White to playSGF: tesuji-squeeze-
White to playSGF: tesuji-squeeze-
White to playSGF: tesuji-squeeze-
White to playSGF: tesuji-squeeze-
White to playSGF: tesuji-squeeze-
White to playSGF: tesuji-squeeze-
White to playSGF: tesuji-squeeze-
White to playSGF: tesuji-squeeze-
White to playSGF: tesuji-squeeze-
White to playSGF: tesuji-squeeze-
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Connecting techniques
Tactical connection
Bamboo joint (take fu)
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Box connection
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Bridge under (watari)
First line connection
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Second line connection
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First line ogeima connection
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Keima side connection
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Cut threat clamp
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Connecting by capturing
Ponnuki
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Tortoise shell
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Double crosscut to connect
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Diagonal connection (kosumi)
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Good eye potential
Mouth shape
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Parallelogram
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Table shape
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Tippy table
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Square good shape
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Keima protecting the cutting point
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Tiger (mouth) shape
Hanging connection
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Trumpet connection
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Honeycomb
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Solid
Solid connection (simple connection)
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Strategic connection
Elephant jump
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Extension
Two-space extension
Three-space extension
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Jump
One-space jump
Two-space jump
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Knight's move
Small knight's move
Large knight's move
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Lion shape
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Underneath attachment
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Defending
Winning race.
Under the stones (ishi no shita)
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Descent
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Ugly descent / ugly sagari
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Making eyes or eye-space
Placement preventing the tower peep
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Miai Tesuji
Grappling hook tesuji
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Nose tesuji / nose attachment (hana-zuke)
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Clamping tesuji (hasami tsuke)
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Double threat
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Shape Tesuji
Ear-cleaning tesuji (mimi-souji)
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Shortage of Liberties Tesuji
Snapback (utte-gaeshi)
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Double snapback
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Move one space further with snapback
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Belly Attachment tesuji
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Twirl
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Yose TesujiTesuji from common end-game situations.
Endgame Tesuji 1
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Miscellaneous
Sente getting tesuji
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Wedge (warikomi)
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SourcesSensei's Library - http://senseis.xmp.net/