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Cut Off Or Defend
   
 Conceived by HolIgor

This is to explain the dilemma.


[Diagram]
Diag.: 'a' or 'b'?

This is from one of my recent gamees. Answering black's attack with the marked stone white played a marked stone.

Obviously white wants to settle his group. Playing 'a' black gets quite a large corner and still can attack white.

But answering 'b' cuts white into pieces. What kind of approach would you choose?


[Diagram]
Diag.: What I played.

Black 3 was wrong. It was not urgent. If white 3 then black 'a'. Thus there was a posibility to get an large move elsewhere.



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