Fuseki Exercise 8 / Solution

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Nico: Here is my attempt to this exercise. A play at a is definitely too slow and does not achieve much in the corner. So I hesitate between the 2 big points b and c. I go for c, since this is a point White will want to play, and it claims some territory as well. It looks like a nice way to approach White in the lower right, to kind of settle the upper right black group and to begin to press against White. Then I also assume that if White plays around b, there is still some place for the lower left black group to extend.

Anyway, I am not that confident with this one. Any comments are warmly welcome.

Dieter: I think you are right about this one. The white stone on the left is high, so it takes a couple of moves before you can really speak of an attack. By then, the stone has become light. So White can really ignore Black b. The two stones on the right, however, are twice as important, and one of them is low: this group is definitely heavier and a more interesting object for attack.

Taking White's responses to the proposed moves into account, one comes to the same conclusion, but I have understood that reading more than one move ahead is not the purpose of these exercices.

DJ: Black 1 here is at the same time an extension from the marked stones (may I say a natural extension?) and a pincer to the two white stones, played on their shape point (I suppose). A double purpose move.
I wouldn't say it claims territory, not yet at least: but if the attack keeps White busy it may be that Black takes terrritory naturally while attacking.
White can also dive in the corner to settle the group under attack, in which case Black must be careful, as the pincer/extension leaves room for invasion.


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