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missing pincer
One theory is that White can play tenuki here and not suffer too much damage. Therefore it is better to pincer on the fourth line.
DaveSigaty: Not only the marked stone below but b as well is missing from the dictionaries. One possible explanation is covered on high vs low pincer. The play a is the only low pincer commonly used against the one-space high approach move.
Searching the GoGoD CD with an otherwise empty quadrant returns 13 games with this shape. Out of the 13, four are actual pincers played at the marked stone. All four are cases where Black already has a stone at one or the other of the points marked c. The other nine games are all cases where White plays the high approach with the marked black stone already on the board. We can reasonably say that the two-space low pincer does not exist in professional play on a "stand alone" basis. This is a copy of the living page "missing pincer" at Sensei's Library. (C) the Authors, published under the OpenContent License V1.0. |