What's your favourite GO Proverb

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Favorite or Most Useful Go Proverbs

I thought it would be cool, as well as a useful storage place of information, to share our favorite or most useful Go proverbs here. Personally I think they are both enlightening as well as exciting. It’s the promise of new tactics and strategies held within a single sentence. So please, share the proverb(s) you love! “Divide and Conquer” Love it. Splitting an opponent’s groups of stones apart is not only useful (necessary) but it brings with it a sort of sigh of relief. You can split apart …

General proverb discussion

We have a thread for OGS proverbs but not for discussing regular old Go sayings. Sensei’s Library has a list of them here. I thought I’d begin by giving my 4k-level opinion on some of them. The enemy’s key point is yours. This is often but not always the case. For instance, in the position below, Black is very interested in playing at A but White wouldn’t think of playing there directly. Instead, White would rather play at B or C. However, I think key point may have been given a more tacti…

OGS proverbs

Sometimes we with other players come up with silly go proverbs but then time passes and we forget them. I want to jot them down. First of all, lately I noticed a trend, in 4 games I saw with strong-ish players (2k+) people like to pull out the ladder once even if it doesn’t work for them, so let’s make a proverb: “If the ladder doesn’t work for you, pull out the laddered stone at least once to make sure your opponent also read it out” or shorter: “Pull out laddered stone at least once” And …