Edge templates: already connected to the edge
A stone on the second row with two empty cells behind it is already joined to its edge. Learn this edge template and how to defend it. Bridges and edges · lesson 2 of 3.
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A stone on the second row from your edge, with the two cells between it and the edge empty, is already connected to that edge. It works like a bridge to the edge.
Strong players count such a stone as touching the edge and play elsewhere.
Ivory has played into your edge template.
Try it: Keep your stone connected to the bottom edge.
The same works at the top.
Try it: Keep your stone connected to the top edge.
Know when you’re already connected, and spend your moves somewhere else.