Amateur Fuseki 1
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PurpleHaze: is premature, better around 9. [1]
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PurpleHaze: My first choice would be to tenuki to play around 9. But if you are going to answer why the "noseki"? See 3-4 Point High Approach for the better moves.
Klaus: is not necesarily "noseki" see 3-4 point, high approach, ogeima
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: Klaus: locally, playing at a is a good move, which white must probably answer arround b
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: Klaus: I was trying to attack the incomplete shape here, in order to prevent black from easily developing his high stone at
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Bill: Attacking on a large scale is not a bad idea. However, if Black secures his position, you may look silly. Here is a better idea, I think.
The clamp, , is key. If
, through
White is strong and Black is too concentrated. White still has aji at a.
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Dieter: If that is true, then suppose Black "punishes" White and plays in the open corner, we have these five moves. Now look at them as if is at
and
at
, in other words,
opens in the corner at the 5-4 point. Is this bad for White ? Then opening at 5-4 is a bad idea in many cases.
Bottom line, I don't think you can convincingly state that a kakari is premature when an open corner is available. I remember quite a few games from the Edo period where this is done, a.o. by Gennan Inseki.
Klaus: When playing the game, I anticipated in the empty corner. I wanted to play the cover at
. ( see 4-5 point 4-3 approach keima for reverences) which seems to fit the fuseki rather well.
Bill: There is a slight problem with
.
In reply to , Black can play
and White cannot afford the hane (
). White's ladder does not work, because
breaks it.