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Taisha Joseki
Difficulty: Advanced
Keywords: Joseki
Charles You could call this the taisha proper. When people speak about avoiding the taisha, they mean not having to play this position from the side of White. AvatarDJFlux: the Taisha really does have hundreds of variations. According to Ishida, at the position below, Black can choose between a, b, c and d. Each of these, in turn, can lead to other 5 or 6 variations, and so on geometrically...
Please bear in mind that all these variations need favourable ladders at every possible place, so in order to challenge your opponent with the Taisha you'd better check your zig-zags... lavalyn: Which of course means that opening at tengen suddenly acquires new meaning - a ladder-breaker for every corner! Who needs to check the opposite corner of the board...? DJ: Very often the taisha is used to start right away a colossal fight that would spread all over the Goban. No wonder kyu players like me are scared by such joseki. Luckily, the taisha has simple variations too: if you don't feel like going for complications and blood-thirsty fights, you still have many ways to avoid the Taisha! In the 1980s this was seen as bad, because it simplified the game too much, taking the beauty of subtlety away from Go: at that time complicated joseki like Taisha (or even the Nadare Joseki) were therefore seldom played. Today it is just the opposite: the simplification of the game is seen positively (as far as I know especially by Korean players), because it skips the difficulties of the chuban (middle game) and brings the game directly to the yose (endgame) stage, where it is easier to perform calculations. These considerations affect where Go is going. -- DJ In fact, today the Nadare Joseki is very popular but the Taisha is still seldom played. Maybe because the 5-3 opening move is unusual in modern go? -- phenomene Page created by Dave Sigaty This is a copy of the living page "Taisha Joseki" at Sensei's Library. ![]() |