It goes in that direction but moves don’t have to be used directly to constrain movements elsewhere on the board.
When playing around with Fold.it there was a similar scenario. It’s often possible to run a script to get a higher local maxima. However that made the fold more “rigid”. The experienced folders did only run the script to search the local maximas at the end when they manually did everything that could be done. With my usage of Go vocabulary running the script to optimize locally beforehand would also be a case of aji-keshi.
Aji is for me a phenomological primitive that I learned while playing Go and that I can use outside of Go but which doesn’t have an existing English or German word.
I understand aji as potential for future moves that is currently not too usable but may be after the board configuration has evolved.
It goes in that direction but moves don’t have to be used directly to constrain movements elsewhere on the board.
When playing around with Fold.it there was a similar scenario. It’s often possible to run a script to get a higher local maxima. However that made the fold more “rigid”. The experienced folders did only run the script to search the local maximas at the end when they manually did everything that could be done. With my usage of Go vocabulary running the script to optimize locally beforehand would also be a case of aji-keshi.
Aji is for me a phenomological primitive that I learned while playing Go and that I can use outside of Go but which doesn’t have an existing English or German word.
The way I think about aji is something fragile on a ledge—sure, it’s safe now, but as things shift around, it may suddenly become unsafe.