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Taisha tobitsuke
Difficulty: Advanced
Keywords: Joseki
If the ladder works for White, she can play b to keep things relatively simple. Otherwise it's off on the complicated variations with a.
HolIgor:
mgoetze: Uhm, it seems to me that
HolIgor: Yes, you are right. White can capture in gote, but Black is alive in the corner, so this is just big yose.
Last chance to keep things relatively simple with a.
But maybe this is too simple for Black...
...so he could play like this instead. White
Anyway, Black continues with a (soft), b (medium) or c (I will destroy you with this ko! Bwahaha!). HolIgor: There are no ko-threats in the fuseki. Even if Black wins the ko by allowing White to make two moves in a row somewhere else, White's three stones are not dead yet. Black's profit is large, no doubt about it, but it is difficult to say if it is large enough. This is a dangerous ko. Dieter: Since White will take first, I think the main argument for not starting the ko is that it will be difficult for Black to find a ko-threat compensating for having two stones rendered useless. White will simply not allow Black to take back the ko. This is a copy of the living page "Taisha tobitsuke" at Sensei's Library. ![]() |