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High Approach Double Tsuke Cut
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    Keywords: Joseki

[Diagram]
Diag.: Complex fight

This is a classic complex joseki, involving an important ladder. Black 7 has also been played at a in some games by top players.


[Diagram]
Diag.: Complex fight

After these plays the ladder with Black 10 must be good for White, of course. Otherwise White 5 must be moved to 8. Black probably checks that this ladder is good for him before cutting at 5 in the previous diagram; so that this sequence doesn't appear in games between players who know what they are doing.


[Diagram]
Diag.: Ladder good for Black

When the ladder is good for Black, which we can therefore presume, White 1 is best, when Black 2 and 4 set up miai: either we have Black a, White b, Black c which captures the corner, or Black makes the severe cut at d.

Therefore White is in some trouble. There are quite a number of variations in pro games, this being an example of an unexplored joseki. Recently it seems that Cho hun-hyeon is willing to play the white side of this position: perhaps White's loss in the corner cdan be compensated for by pace, in his style.

Charles Matthews



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