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Unusual enclosures and tenuki variations
Keywords: Opening, Joseki
BobMcGuigan Many of the unusual enclosures come from standard joseki patterns (pincers, taisha, etc.) with the white stone removed. For example;
Charles A bad tenuki, though, since Black a is strong: see 3-5 point low approach one-space low pincer, tenuki. See 3563 enclosure for White attacking at a instead, the apparent vital point.
Charles This is noted at 3564 enclosure - another way was seen in a recent Korean pro game.
This was the start of An Yeong-kil-Ch'oe Ch'eol-han (B) 2003-02-19. By the time But the previous diagram shows the usual invasion point. Other ones of the patterns on unusual enclosures come from pincer joseki with the white stone removed:
Charles Noted at 3473 enclosure.
In most of these cases of unusual enclosures, if White were to invade the black formation at a natural point it would result in a position equivalent to White having played tenuki against a pincer. This is a copy of the living page "Unusual enclosures and tenuki variations" at Sensei's Library. ![]() |