Tesuji
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A Japanese term used in the games of go
or Shogi
. A tesuji (手筋) is a clever play, the best play in a local position, a skillful move. Tesuji is derived from suji (筋), which means "line of play".
The opposite of tesuji is zokusuji, which can be translated as "crude line of play", and also referred to as anti-suji, or a vulgar move depending on the situation.
Tesuji is one of the important aspects of the game in which a player exerts his or her ability to "read ahead". In the game of Go, they are used in life and death situations (tsumego
), in order to obtain initiative (sente), to capture stones, to gain extra points in the yose
, or to otherwise save a seemingly unfavorable situation.
Go (board game)
Go , is an ancient board game for two players that originated in China more than 2,000 years ago...
or Shogi
Shogi
, also known as Japanese chess, is a two-player board game in the same family as Western chess, chaturanga, and Chinese Xiangqi, and is the most popular of a family of chess variants native to Japan...
. A tesuji (手筋) is a clever play, the best play in a local position, a skillful move. Tesuji is derived from suji (筋), which means "line of play".
The opposite of tesuji is zokusuji, which can be translated as "crude line of play", and also referred to as anti-suji, or a vulgar move depending on the situation.
Tesuji is one of the important aspects of the game in which a player exerts his or her ability to "read ahead". In the game of Go, they are used in life and death situations (tsumego
Tsumego
is the Japanese term for a Go problem based on life-and-death. The term likely comes from , as means mating in Shogi but has no meaning in Go. Tsumego problems are common in newspaper columns; the usual format is of a position set up on some delimited area of the board, and the instruction reads...
), in order to obtain initiative (sente), to capture stones, to gain extra points in the yose
Yose
You may also be looking for the Hebrew name Yose; see Jose. is a Japanese language term used in the board game go in connection with go endgame plays...
, or to otherwise save a seemingly unfavorable situation.