Compromised diagonal and dropping back

White drops back  

You could call a dropping back idea; it is certainly also a getting ahead idea. In this case Black doesn't cut with Black a, White b, Black c because White d is a tesuji of the flying-off kind.

To play at a is clearly slower and heavier, even though it has more effect on Black too.

An unusual shape  

This choice of (instead of Black at a, in the 3-5 point, 4-3 approach, one-space pincer) is an example of a play that is recorded in joseki dictionaries, but rarely seen in pro games.

From what is said at weak player's diagonal, one can understand the rarity: Black at a is very natural from the point of view of shape. Of course can be called a lighter play.

This example game in which was played (Kori Toshio-Kajiwara Takeo (B) 1982-03-04) is a good example of Kajiwara's style. We join it at Black 33.^[1]

Moves 33 to 40  

Presumably is intended as a sort of inducing move. Black wastes no time playing at another key point of White's diagonal.

Moves 41 to 50  

Kajiwara was nicknamed 'the drill' for his maximum attitude to local play: is a good example. A ko results.

Moves 51 to 60  

Black wins the ko. This leaves White needing a move to live in the lower right.

Moves 71 to 80  

Another ko: Black trades away the upper right.

Moves 81 to 90  

Here (dropping back with a diagonal play) shuts White in, rather than chase him out into the centre.

Moves 111 to 120  

By (move 120) this is the endgame. Black won by resignation, at move 213.

Charles Matthews