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Consolidating frameworks
Difficulty: Advanced Keywords: Opening, MiddleGame, Strategy
![[Diagram]](../../diagrams/21/313161c9ec8b65783228ad7040c24e7b.png) | Black broadens the framework |
This is from a game between kyu players (game 83 from the Go Teaching Ladder).
When Black played , White invaded deeply with . This threatens to use , for example by White a, Black b, White c.
![[Diagram]](../../diagrams/1/9225caa28be289d9b5104ed0257382c9.png) | Kim's suggestion |
According to Kim Seong-june 6d, to consolidate and control the aji of is better. If , Black is content to build up with .
![[Diagram]](../../diagrams/37/5d6962f9af01f054d02ffef62a5d4813.png) | Kim's suggestion (2) |
The preceding plays were to shown here. Kim feels that these kikashi should not have been played: Black a immediately is better. This is an example for use of kikashi to build up frameworks.
Another example, this time from pro-level opening theory.
![[Diagram]](../../diagrams/44/6a8df0232c5c929576605454232822a2.png) | A known opening |
is an idea for building a mini-chinese formation later, at a, with an order of play that doesn't allow White to pincer. is a typical wedge, and by the time of she has a strong group usefully placed between two black frameworks.
![[Diagram]](../../diagrams/28/10ec87f152f1f3572e055e46f211f8f5.png) | Consolidate the corner |
In most cases Black now plays at here, rather than at a (the latter has been tried by Mok Chin-seok, though). There is plenty of corner aji at b; considering the effect of that combined with White's strength above, Black prefers to secure the existing framework, rather than expand it.
Charles Matthews
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