Concept
The deadlock with no move inside it
A repeating exchange where every available move within the pattern is the pattern. The exit is a weighted move elsewhere — one that genuinely has to be dealt with, since a weightless one only resumes the loop a step further behind.
Where it appears
Treated in
- Part Two — How to PracticeReceivingSix things you can do with what arrives at you — fighting back, withdrawing, parley, doing nothing, withholding, blending — and the test that tells a stable standoff from ordinary avoidance.