Dropping back
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Difficulty: Beginner
Keywords: Shape, Tactics
![[Diagram]](../../diagrams/13/fa8332102432f1d14db26fd275ff6176.png) | Keima watari: Black 1? |
The stone is a keima watari, normally a good shape.
How to answer and preserve the connection?
![[Diagram]](../../diagrams/43/edff82ab9aa00800c6b73efddbc60e8d.png) | Dropping back |
is the basic dropping back idea. By conceding a little, White stays out of trouble.
![[Diagram]](../../diagrams/6/82ff2bbb0cb602125e70dba2706f1e62.png) | Immediate cut |
this way is a bad idea. After White is in difficulties on the left side (reading problem).
![[Diagram]](../../diagrams/25/50ff5503c22816560c04843dc8422193.png) | A middlegame position |
This is from a game Qian Yuping-Nie Weiping (B) 1989-07-13.
How should White react to ?
![[Diagram]](../../diagrams/29/f3ff080c039ccc4d71b467a66ece97ad.png) | First jump back ... |
White concedes first with . Black's wedge invites White a.
![[Diagram]](../../diagrams/25/3261e4ec7c04f5d31cba04c7e5019ffd.png) | Then run along ... |
But White plays . After Black has some sente profit. On the other hand White's shape is improved.
![[Diagram]](../../diagrams/33/049db57bd115f0a1bc5e1a8a1603a1f6.png) | Bad style |
here is quite a bad idea. Black's cut at is strong, and suddenly Black can see some use for the stone.
Charles Matthews
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