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Pushing battles in joseki 7
Difficulty: Professional
Keywords: MiddleGame, Joseki
This is a variation played once by Go Seigen in a 1965 game against Miyashita Shuyo.
In a 1996 Fujitsu Cup game Rob van Zeijst-Catalin Taranu there continued a large-scale pushing battle:
Seong-june Kim 6d comments that White 6 here is conservative (up to that point this has gone 'by the book').
There seems to be the immediate tactical justification of White 1 here, that the ladder is good for White to cut at 3.
The fighting in the game now became difficult. Black 7 and so on were high-handed.
White eventually backed down with the capture at 8.
Kim gives this alternate way to play for White. Black has the driving plays up to 8; but then the position looks hard for him. The marked white group on the right side isn't something Black can hope to capture cleanly; and the cutting points a and b remain. This is a copy of the living page "Pushing battles in joseki 7" at Sensei's Library. ![]() |