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4-4 point 3-3 invasion joseki, hane inside cut, hane
Difficulty: Advanced Keywords: Joseki, Culture & History
But first two considerations have to be made: one, this move can be played only when the ladder is favourable for Black, otherwise White can crush him with the sort-of-easy-to-understand sequence below, where W11 is played at a:
Second, if White takes the bait as in the diagram below, we can say that she has been effectively tricked, as not only she is shut in, but also a and b are sente for Black.
What to do, then? Let's see what Otake and Sato did
The game was played on November 8th, 1979: the Yomiuri commentator was no less than Fujisawa Shuko, then at the peak of his Kisei reign, while the reporter was the veteran go writer Mihori Masa?. Otake (Black) played the inside cut
Sato replied with the correct move: the hane at
Another possibility is the diagram below, where a is a likely continuation for White:
Shuko considered the result of the game satisfactory for White: Black's stone at the bottom has been weakened so that Black had to play
Despite this local poor exchange, Otake went on and forced White to resign at move 115...
The funny thing about this game is that the Yomiuri reporter, Mihori, was startled when Otake played B17 ( Author: AvatarDJFlux This is a copy of the living page "4-4 point 3-3 invasion joseki, hane inside cut, hane" at Sensei's Library. ![]() |