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immediate life
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    Keywords: Opening, Joseki, Strategy

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Diag.: White lives quickly

The reason for the popularity of White 2 in this enclosure opening position is that after White 4, White's group is actually alive. Black 5 is required to finish the joseki, so White has actually achieved that in sente. (If Black wants to take sente here, the normal idea is to play more lightly, with Black 3 at a).



Since White's strategy in the medium term is to invade in the area of the marked points, White's idea of making life on the left corresponds to wanting only to have one weak group on this side (see do not create two weak groups). White has made few points in the left corner, but that isn't the major point.



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