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NYR2002 White 50
PageType: OngoingGame
This situation arose in New Year's Rengo 2002 after W played 50 at 2 in the diagram below:
So what happens if W50 is played at the marked stone below?
In the game white already made the W1 - B2 exchange. It is OK to continue with W3, suppose black answers with B4. Now the exchange W1 - B2 becomes a two or three points loss for white. Also black is stronger (think about the position without W1-B2).
White 1 and 3 are one possible action, I think not very attractive right now. Black is alive on the left side and defends the corner with B4 and B6. He will not die.
I was thinking about playing directly at W1. B2 is out of the question.
So black should play something like B2. White then strenghtens his upper side group with W3 - W5. If B6 next W7 and black's corner group has no eyes. Probably black will conect with the left side (playing where the W7 stone is) but white has a very big yose play in the corner next.
Another nice variation is to play directly W1. This seems still posible. I said the white connection is 'almost sente' because is not completely sente. Black can play tenuki. But then white has a very good sente follow up :) Quite bigger than blacks play on the right. Now I spoiled the game :) This is a copy of the living page "NYR2002 White 50" at Sensei's Library. (C) the Authors, published under the OpenContent License V1.0. |