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Attack and invading


Above is an example of attacking white seeds because it is surrounded by black and no distinct or potential two real eyes . Black will then attack at seed 1 so as to cover and kill the stone .

Even if like in


white have one space jump and is jumping towards the white camp , black can still play seed 1 to cover the two white seeds although it may seem be difficult . But one does no win only from eating the two seeds . He can win from attacking the weak seed and at the same expand and secure territory .

In


, black has very strong wall on the top left corner but it has a low placing seed which is marked in the diagram . Hence , in

, black will invade white territory "diagonally" at 1 in which will be followed by the strong move at A if black does not respond . The conventional move is shown in the diagram . If black attack deeply as shown in

, then he will be attack fiercely with black 2 with a motive to cover the black stone and eradicate it because there is so many black stones against the black stone .

In conclusion , in a situation where one side want to invade in another side of strong formation , a diagonal attack can be considered .

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