Systematic Joseki 4-4 3-6 3-8 3-3 3-4

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Black blocks on the right. White is forced to live along the top. Black gains outside influence facing down the right side.

Next Black plays somewhere else.


Quite often in double-digit kyu games, you see B3 like this:

[Diagram]

In the presence of the marked white stone, B3 is a bad move:

[Diagram]

After setting things up with W4, black has no good answer for W6. In comparison to the joseki move at top, this is an inferior result for black.

-- Fhayashi



Bob McGuigan: This can get very complicated. See 44 Point One Space Low Pincer Invasion Interception and 44 Point One Space Low Pincer Invasion Interception/Discussion



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