While yose moves are usually small and mainly consist on winning small points while keeping sente, sometimes we happen to find big moves during the latest phase of the game. It doesn't really matter whether it's because of a shortenning of liberties or due to the presence of some aji-loaded stones.
In this case we'll discuss the importance of big yose moves such as the one played a couple of weeks ago on KGS, between joehung (7dan, playing as white) and Mr12345678 (6dan, black). At first glance, we can see there are several yose moves to be played on boths sides in sente. But there is one which, as painful as it seems, is the unique path to avoid a 20 point loss. Try and make your guess before continuing to the next paragraph. Though white chances of playing the big point vanished when we happened to play around the upper-right corner and I'm unable to find a path to defend this formation in sente, black's next move is so harmful it just shouldn't be allowed in yose. Mor
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