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Cut Off Or Defend
    Keywords: MiddleGame
 Conceived by HolIgor

This is to explain the dilemma.

[Diagram]
Diag.: 'a' or 'b'?

This is from one of my recent games. Answering Black's attack with the marked stone, White played the marked stone.

Obviously White wants to settle his group. Playing a Black gets quite a large corner and still can attack White.

But answering b cuts White into pieces. What kind of approach would you choose?


[Diagram]
Diag.: What I played

Black 3 was wrong. It was not urgent. If White 3 then Black a. Thus there was a possibility to get an large move elsewhere.



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