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Side patterns - outliers
Keywords: Opening, Strategy
Charles Matthews This line of thought was in part prompted by an observation on the Mark II Kobayashi formation.
It was quite striking for me, to find that there are no positions in my database for the continuation after
That must be explained somehow by matters lower down on the left side. Still, I feel I could see this sequence today in my club. It shows the refinement of pro feeling for the opening, that we get these gaps. Outlier surveysOne idea is to perform systematic searches to detect effects of outlier stones
It is less obvious, but true, that stones at the square-marked points will affect the joseki choice. This 19x11 is one line larger than the 19x10 taken as standard on the side patterns page. If this is used, there are clearly 24 patterns 'with outliers' for each basic side pattern. One may wonder how useful such depth of study is. To take an example:
In this game 1988-03-12 between two of the master players, the effect of
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