Conceal a dagger in a smile
Keywords: Strategy
White sacrifices the marked stone freely, but if the situation calls for it, there is still a hidden dagger - the aji - left in this stone.
-- lavalyn
Forgive me, but I'm having trouble seeing the aji here. Could you give an example, perhaps, of a situation where it would be of important?
-- Lynx
The whole corner shouldn't appear in a game with players who know what they are doing.
The correct diagram should be like this:
See also 4-4 point one-space low pincer invasion, interception.
At an appropriate moment white may play a or b to destroy all the black territory. One must however be careful not to produce a weak group at the wrong moment. Basti