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Hanging connection to the second line as good shape
Keywords: Shape
Black 1 here is a hanging connection, designed to induce White's atari play at a. After that Black will have good shape - just one cutting point; if Black 1 is at a, potentially an overplay, then Black has two cutting points, which makes it quite hard to kill White (but see Enclosure Josekis Query 2).
This is a tenuki variation that is common in practice (NB there is a ladder involved). Black 10 makes good shape.
White 1 to live in gote is normal. White at a instead lives in sente: but Black becomes thick, since capturing the stone at a is later going to be sente for Black, and the ladder aji of a white cut at b disappears. This is a copy of the living page "Hanging connection to the second line as good shape" at Sensei's Library. ![]() |