Iron pillar

    Keywords: Joseki

Chinese: 铁柱 (tie3 zhu4); 扎钉 (zha2 ding1)
Japanese: 鉄柱 (tetchu)
Korean:

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Iron pillar

B1 forms the iron pillar, a solid connection of two stones, mostly directed from side to centre.



A heavy shape on its own (cf. heavy versus overconcentrated discussion), it can work well in a position like this, where Black is attacking on the left and making territory on the right. It removes all White's sabaki tactics here.

[Diagram]

Iron pillar

The iron pillar can be fine on its own, as well. Here it turns an influential san-ren-sei into a more territory-oriented framework, by making a third lineinvasion difficult, as White cannot attach to the side stone, applying sabaki tactics immediately.

This move is also known as burasagari


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