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Diagonal Attachment Follow-Up
Keywords: Shape, Tactics
If Black ignores White's marked move, White can make a tiger shape. This is considered very advantageous (when the Black stone is isolated as in this diagram). Therefore, ...
Black 1, preventing the tiger shape, turns the white move into a weak player's diagonal.
Very often White hanes like this, especially close to the border.
Under comparable circumstances, when eyeshape is at stake, one sees Black hane like this.
If the diagonal move is deliberately played, and not a weak player's diagonal it may have been with the purpose of making Black heavy. Black may then dodge White's intentions and jump lightly to 1.
Charles Black 1 here is a recognised sabaki technique, when Black would otherwise become heavy here. Black accepts that White can cut now. See diagonal attachment knight's move angle play sabaki technique. This is a copy of the living page "Diagonal Attachment Follow-Up" at Sensei's Library. ![]() |