Vision attacking play 3

    Keywords: MiddleGame, Shape, Tactics
[Diagram]
Jack-Masson  

Initial position, Black to play.


[Diagram]
In the actual game  

Black attacked White directly, with the eye-stealing play B1.

There are two things wrong with this.

  1. It is a bit too loose.
  2. No advantage in direction of play.

The first point means that Black will have to spend time defending this stone, later. White at a is an obvious weakness at the moment.

The second point: as long as White's group doesn't die, how will Black take profit from this attack? There is no clear territory to be made.


[Diagram]
A better way to attack  

B1 here is an attack from a better direction of play.

[Diagram]
White makes shape  

W2 and W4 are a typical method to make shape against Black's jump out, which is locally somewhat thin. But in this case B5 induces a good result.

[Diagram]
Black sets up the second attack  

Black can be quite happy with the development in this diagram. After W5 the lower black group cannot be considered as seriously weak; while B6 is clearly a good way to take profit while attacking.


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Vision attacking play 3 last edited by CharlesMatthews on May 30, 2003 - 13:28
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