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Bending back
Keywords: Shape
This is an amateur game (1995 Swedish Championship). The play
James McCartney?: There's a black stone missing? White is moving first here, but by the stones on the board, it is black's turn.
(Sebastian:) Well they were amateurs. Maybe they didn't know any better. :o)
James McCartney?: Some pages jump right into examples without first defining the term being talked about. Is bending back just a hane or something more?
Charles Don't always expect a definition.
In this shape you are supposed to look at the white wall. There might be another black stone at the circle point, or the square point.
The
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The effect is that Black gets 270 degrees, White only 90 degrees of the outside influence here. This is a bad result for White (appalling is hardly strong enough to express how bad).
The same joseki in Yamabe Toshiro-Hashimoto Utaro 1963-03-30.
Black builds up influence in the upper right, ending though in gote; so White can continue at
In general tenuki plays can lose influence in this way, and this is to be taken into account even if the temporarily abandoned group has no problem surviving.
HolIgor: I've never played it before but This is a point when knowing joseki is necessary. At this point the joseki changes from peaceful to fighting variation. Consulting Yoshida one finds
Black then jumps out with a. Yoshida gives other variations as well. It is so easy to mess up in this situation. How can one risk this unprepared? Next time I will play this to see what kind of fight results from here. [1]: Please clarify profligate --Dieter Dictionary says 'recklessly extravagant'. You could say, spending money as if tomorrow will never come. Charles This is a copy of the living page "Bending back" at Sensei's Library. ![]() |