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Contact play, diagonal away
Difficulty: Dan level
Keywords: Shape
In a 1995 game against Yu Bin, Otake Hideo played the highly-unusual
These plays followed. This idea of the 'diagonal away' is unusual.
On general principles of shape, one expects Black at answer at a, b or c (the play at the marked point being bad shape). Exactly this shape does occur in a number of tenuki joseki; for example
This is a copy of the living page "Contact play, diagonal away" at Sensei's Library. ![]() |