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[Star Wars] Why do Jedi/Sith always try to slice with their lightsabers instead of stab?

A lightsaber is equally good at stabbing and slicing, so why do they always opt for swinging in wide arcs that are easily blockable? It seems like stabbing thrusts would be *much* harder to block, and incidentally that is what killed Qui-Gon.

As a related question, when two powerful force users fight (like Anakin and Obi-Wan), they can predict each other's moves, so they wind up in parrying every one of their opponent's swings. Why do they waste their energy uselessly swinging at each other, instead of taking their time and playing psychological games while waiting for an opening (like Vader and Obi-Wan on the Death Star)?
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It is actually equally as hard to defend against a stab as it is to land one.  Stabbing requires most of the target's attention to be diverted, and the simple fact that the entire blade of the saber is being pushed directly forward makes it easy to block or deflect with the other saber, and it becomes easy to dodge as well.  That's not to say that stabbing will *always* be ineffective, but if the Jedi can react fast enough to deflect a blow with the saber, there's a high possibility that they'd be able to evade or deflect a stab.