Started by HolIgor
Shimari with aji
This position is something recognizable. It happens when White chooses not to answer Black's press and Black takes the corner.
But the taste of that corner is a little bit bitter.
Even such a distant approach as is a threat to revive the white stone in the corner.
B2 is honte here.
If Black does not reply to , White can use this chance to break through or live in the corner.
KarlKnechtel: Maybe it is because I am only in the mid-kyus, but it is not at all clear to me that is at all important to the sequence here... ?
HolIgor: With , Black has to protect at
. Without this stone Black can accept the challenge to start a big fight.
The fight is difficult for both as it is.
So White will start it only in the case when some helping stones appear nearby.
But this fight is difficult for White too.