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BQM 153
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    Keywords: Opening, Joseki

There is an opening that I like as black but after W8, I am not sure how to respond. Most of the time I respond with a or b but is that good? If it is, how should I continue the sequence?

[Diagram]
19x19 diagram

[Diagram]
19x19 diagram

unkx80: With my limited knowledge on this joseki, I would ask why not play this way? BC should aid here.

kokiri: this is playable, and BC and the lower left black stone are the nearest stones to the bottom right so as UNKX80 says, you should be able to fight. rather than trying to achieve something spectacular, if you live in the corner and connect across the right, you should have a weak white group to attack, giving you a strategic advantage into the middle game.

With the pincer BC in place, I seem to recall there's a variant that relies a ladder to the top left in the Joseki book, but i'd say that this sort of situation you can probably throw the book out of the window.


[Diagram]
19x19 diagram

con't personally, I'm a fan of this variation of the taisha which has surprised some quite strong players, to my advantage, in the past. The effect of BC being in place as well, i'm not qualified to say, but it looks ok to me.


[Diagram]
19x19 diagram

I would say that B1 is not good, because it helps White conenct the two stones naturally with W2. Then Black has to play B3, which is low.



puripuri: Problem with the first diagram is, that according to pro theory... If there's a pincer stone closer to the corner than the lower side star point or a three point pincer on the right side, then initiating the Taisha is a mistake from white. The local result gets influenced too much in black's favour like this, they say. I can't provide exhaustive variations here though, due to lack of actual knowledge. Just playing the normal line like in unkx80's diagram should flow naturally (providing the players decide to actually follow the ideas of the many Taisha lines...)



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