BQM 328

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3-4 Noseki

Table of contents Table of diagrams
Corner Sequence (dia 1)
[38 Basic Joseki], Section 38, Diagram 2
[All About Joseki] Game 3
Noseki Response?
die-ing in sente OR crawling
1st extending OR direct atari?
extend & sacrifice
avoid bad shape - simple
inside block - ladders?
damezumari-techniques
damezumari-techniques
damezumari-techniques
damezumari-techniques
countered hane
countered hane doesn't work
countered hane doesn't work
countered hane
countered hane
B much better off

Original BQM

OK. So both the sensei's site and 38 Basic Joseki (?!) show this continuation for a 3-4 Point, High Approach, Ogeima:

[Diagram]
Corner Sequence (dia 1)  

But this diagram is not what I get in my games. B1 is a joseki move, so it makes sense that it seems natural to me, but instead of the response of W2, I tend to get the cut where White plays the outside hane[1] at the location of B3 in response to attachment of B1.


Regarding the Basis of this BQM

Velobici: The White move at white+circle above is joseki? Don't see it in 38 Basic Joseki[2], or Ishida, or Kogo or on the 3-4 Point Josekis page. Database lookup reveals that white+circle is extremely rare compared the knight's move. The page that you reference, 3-4 Point, High Approach, Ogeima, is not a joseki page but rather a dicussion of the large knight's move itself, which arose during an Amateur Fuseki 2.

[Diagram]
38 Basic Joseki, Section 38, Diagram 2  

Note the move order. W1 precedes B6. Section 38 of 38 Basic Joseki is part of Chapter 7 5-4 Point Joseki. Regarding the question on this page, play may transpose into this joseki, should White play W1 in response to a move by Black at B6. But, White has the freedom to choose other lines of play.

Andy Pierce: I'm not convinced the move order matters since you reach the identical position. In any event, All About Joseki answers this BQM in comprehensive detail in the section "Game 3: Correcting Joseki Mistakes". Briefly, the exact sequence given above (dia 1) is called "sort of joseki" with the comment that a black invasion at x in this position is less severe since now a white move at y is sente, as it would not be with B6 positioned at z. To paraphrase the rest of the section, the outside hane that is the main topic of this BQM is called "clearly an overplay" and cutting immediately is "the only response". Either black gets a big corner, or black adds a few more stones as a sacrifice to seal white into the corner.

[Diagram]
All About Joseki Game 3  

Hmmm...However, B3 is strange, though it is possible. See Variation 1. Joseki moves are not strange. Joseki moves are proper, otherwise they would not be joseki. The commentary for Variation 1 begins If B3 in the game is at a here, this is a normal joseki. (Note in the book B3 is actually B13 and a is B1 in the Variation 1 diagram.) The point is that after B3, White need not play at b, rather she is free to play elsewhere, including c as discussed in 3-4 Point, High Approach, Ogeima.



Original BQM (continued)

[Diagram]
Noseki Response?  

In my experience as Black, cutting at circle is bad, as White quickly captures B1. Although this might be the desired result? I can't imagine throwing away the B1 stone at this point in the game. I think Black can descend at B3 to take part of the corner, but the kakari stone, is extremely vulnerable until the situation gets settled.

Since the cutting play of W2 doesn't show in any of the joseki references that I have consulted, there must be a play that punishes it. Does anyone know what it is?

Of course, if this is answered somewhere else on the site, feel free to point me toward it instead of wasting this space. Thanks in advance.

--Patrick Taylor


[Diagram]
die-ing in sente OR crawling  

tderz: connection at W4 hurts black+circle so badly that this proves B3 wrong.
White a next would kill Black (Wa-Bb c-d and e or f; if Wa-Bp, We), who is thus saddled with the dilemma of ´leaving the camp´ (die-ing in sente) or pushing/crawling on the 2nd line with Ba-Wq, r-s which are most probably worse.

[Diagram]
1st extending OR direct atari?  

tderz: After the inevitable cut, Black is faced with the recurring question 'extending as the proverb says (a) OR does one have to sacrifice directly (b)?'.

Alex shows b below.

[Diagram]
extend & sacrifice  

tderz: I will indulge in W2 at c only below (because in 1st instance, it does not appear a good shape/link to white+circle).
The situation after B5 is different from other, known inside-cut B1 to B5 variants (here on SL), as there is no liberty taken at c
-> this implies that the usual killing threat white d + e does not work right now!
White often thinks about hane-ing at k right now
with the idea of forcing B into an emty triangle l, then forcing atari Wn, B takes at d, then making tigermouth shape at o, but ...

(still have to think about coninuation then -> could empty triangle be necessary??)

[Diagram]
avoid bad shape - simple  

tderz: this variant is always possible
(also if white+circle is at c)

[Diagram]
inside block - ladders?  

tderz: As Black has an extra liberty at c
he can investigate those variants involving ladders (?).
...
White seems captured independent of any ladder.

Hicham:What if white cuts at a?

tderz: I gave already the letters (e.g.) Wa to Bf.
(W could also transpose Wa-Bb-We to no avail either)

[Diagram]
damezumari-techniques  

tderz: perhaps safer this way, as ...

Bill: white+circle are captured on an empty board, right?

[Diagram]
damezumari-techniques  

tderz: after W5, black a-b-c-d is only ko, while
black k - white d loses by 2:3 liberties.
(However, I won´t change below diagrams anymore)

[Diagram]
damezumari-techniques  

tderz: W11 at B8

[Diagram]
damezumari-techniques  

tderz: Here starts the fun - at some time it becomes irrelevant whether White could save the stones
(linking to white lower left corner) and kill Black´s corner stones,
as the gained influence weighs more.



If White played c above, countering the hane

[Diagram]
countered hane  

tderz: Black could reply nicely to hane W1 with counter B2 to B6!
(this would work especially well if below were some white stones which become devaluated by the following ponuki !)

[Diagram]
countered hane doesn't work  

Problem: White catches the black+square stones in a ladder.

[Diagram]
countered hane doesn't work  

tderz: no problem, Black takes
(you overlooked a black stone s in above diagram)

[Diagram]
countered hane  

tderz: White is lost after B2, B4 as, due to the low white+circle, White cannot capture in time at a.

[Diagram]
countered hane  

tderz: nice ponuki (no need to exchange something around e now)


Alex: I don't think there's any move other than cutting; certainly the descent suggested by the OP is a bad idea, for the reason mentioned by tderz. You want to force White to choose between letting you live in the corner, or letting you sacrifice your stone for outside influence.

[Diagram]
B much better off  

(W8 connects) For the beginner, the above variations may seem complex and intimidating, so although Black can get a better result that way, he can still get an acceptable result by taking a more straightforward line. What would be wrong with something like this, for instance?


[1]

Bill: That's an inside hane, right?

[2]

Patrick Taylor: Correct. I got the sequence confused with the keima response, which is in 38 Basic Joseki. I figured that if the cut was deemed sub-optimal with the keima in place, then it should follow that it makes less sense when the respose stone is more distant. I could be wrong, but I imagine a discussion of the cut during the course of the actual joseki deserves its own page, no?


BQM 328 last edited by Dieter on July 5, 2008 - 12:48
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