Amateur Fuseki 1

move 1-10  

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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

Attack the weak point  

The clamp, , is key. If , through White is strong and Black is too concentrated. White still has aji at a.

move 1-10  

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.

Ladder Breaker  

In reply to , Black can play and White cannot afford the hane (). White's ladder does not work, because breaks it.