Emo Ko Threats?

Strategy and Tactics
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So the idea is that if you run out of good threats, you just play a bad move to be punished.

Seems like a bad idea but maybe there are certain situations where this can be possible? like filling in a small Seki maybe?

I’d like to know if this has been done before or the theory has been put in practice at the very least.

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Even if locally playing bad moves (losing points) it would still be a valid ko threat if the value would be larger than of the ko

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seems like there are only a few cases where its a good idea.

if W is going to win the ko, then B will have lost the points they spent
to continue to ko to no end

if B wins the ko, then the ko has to be more than the cost of white’s last
(insufficiently large) threat, plus all of the points that B spent to continue
the ko.

so it seems like theoretically yes, but you’d have to count threats…or i guess
the ko is so damn big you’re gonna lose regardless, so why not?

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