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There's a major difference between the fork and the other two winning structures:
Black therefore should leave white alone. Let's assume he has a frame elsewhere on the board, of approximately equal speed, so that the game turns into a race. The question of course is:
The answer is: the number of moves needed to complete the fork, minus the number of black stones white can draw into the position with moves that
White makes 16 moves, 6 of which require a local answer because they constitute ring threats. Of course this is not the final answer to the origial question: make white 7 a one point jump to k18, and white can run the 18-line in sente for quite a while. This low route has a resource to do it in 9, as shown at the bottom. White makes 19 moves, 10 of which require a local answer because they constitute a ring- or bridge threat.
This is exactly what the race stage is all about:
the one extra tempo you can squeeze out of a position
using tactical threats. Of course the bottom sequence may not be the
final answer to the origial question either.
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