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TG66move9Joseki
As Kageyama claims in his excellent book on fundamentals one of the basic rules of go is to get ahead and to bend first. In order to do this a weakness of the marked point is considered tolerable in the joseki. Now, I remember I played this against a 3d. It was one of my early games. So, I played 4 as in the joseki book and only then started to read.
6 at 1 and black barely wins the semeai. So, the crude cut does not work and black is safe for a moment. But what happens if a white stone appears somewhere there? I remember sweating throughout the whole game. Not a pleasant experience.
AvatarDJFlux For what I understand, the cut is not supposed to work, it is only played for Aji in order to make some Kikashi possible. HolIgor: Oh, it was not played. I just gave the variations that I had to read out in the game and sweat about possible change of the status when new stones appeared on the board. Let's see the joseki's Ishida proposes:
Ishida says: 9 is an efficient kikashi, but B is satisfied with his solid position...
(If instead of 5 W cuts at a we get into a scary, long and complicated variation...)
Ishida says: the marked W moves are strong, the Nidanbane of the marked B move is unyielding. If W has an extension along the top she as a magnificent moyo... Provided white plays an extension at the top black has to make the desired turn as soon as possible.
Now, 7 is a very cunning move. DJ Yeah, indeed! a becomes a juicy move for later... Can anybody see the sequence there? This is a copy of the living page "TG66move9Joseki" at Sensei's Library. (C) the Authors, published under the OpenContent License V1.0. |