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Big bulge
Difficulty: Intermediate Keywords: Joseki, Tesuji, Shape
Alex Weldon: This is a term coined in Charles Matthews' book
Abstractly, the Big bulge is the shape formed by three stones with a keima-keima-ogeima relationship, as shown here. It's a good shape because it's flexible, but also very well connected.
I know of two common joseki that involve this shape. One arises from a 4-4 point one space low pincer invasion block, and looks like this.
The other joseki I know that involves this shape comes from the 4-5 point 4-3 approach keima joseki. It looks like this. Charles If I can comment on the feeling behind the name: it came from examples like this one.
Here This is a copy of the living page "Big bulge" at Sensei's Library. ![]() |