Enclosure techniques

Background

• Enclosure

Typical enclosures

• 3-4 5-3 enclosure (small low enclosure)
• 3-4 5-4 enclosure (small high enclosure)
• 3-4 6-3 enclosure (large low enclosure)
• 3-4 6-4 enclosure (large high enclosure)
• 4-4 6-3 enclosure
• 4-4 6-4 enclosure
• 4-4 7-3 enclosure
• 4-4 7-4 enclosure

Less usual enclosures

• Unusual enclosures
• Unusual three-stone enclosures
• Pillbox
• Three crows

Opening theory

• Extending from an enclosure
• Double wing formation
• Preventing enclosures from growing in fuseki
• Double enclosure
• Ryojimari
• Allowing two enclosures

Opening formations

• Enclosure opening
• Orthodox fuseki
• Mark II Kobayashi formation
• Sub-orthodox formation
• Hosai's formation
• Regulation fuseki

Middlegame theory

• How secure is the small low enclosure?
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• BQM172
• Shimari probes and kikashi
• Reducing an enclosure framework by a shoulderhit
• Reducing an enclosure framework by capping

Books

• Enclosure Josekis - the book
• Keshi and Uchikomi - Reduction and Invasion in Go