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BQM107
Path: BigQuestionMark · Prev: BQM106 · Next: BQM108
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Icepick: On Table building, it was suggested that Black should cut at either point a in this type of shape:
I attempted this early on in quick game yesterday, with poor results.
The ladder on
I ended up treating
My opponent and I discussed this afterwards, and came to the conclusion that
unkx80: Two comments. Surely
I would say that
If the outside does matter, is this all that bad? After
Andrew Grant: OK, I realise you wanted to try out the table shape, but really the a-b and c-d exchanges only serve to strengthen White. Just playing Bill: To second what Andrew says, suppose that you had already made the one space jump. Now you would not play the following exchange.
Here is another idea for Black's play, though it is a bit advanced, and that is to make a probe in the corner and base your play on the side on White's response.[1]
If
If White protects the corner with
Play might continue this way. Black plays tsuke-nobi and then cuts at
Black can turn the corner on White with
Black should extend all the way to [1] Compare with the page Reduce high enclosure.
[2] There are reasons why this side formation isn't common; but the data bear out Bill's comment that Path: BigQuestionMark · Prev: BQM106 · Next: BQM108 This is a copy of the living page "BQM107" at Sensei's Library. ![]() |