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yuzukitea: Saving some content that I summarized on the front page (2021-08-10 21:30) [#11790]

yuzukitea: Ideally, I'd like to make detailed pages because there are some complicated follow-ups. Will include these variations later if I get to detailed pages.


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Atari  

The more active answer and current standard is to atari at B3. After W4 Black plays a or b to keep White pressed down to the top side, or c to take positions on both sides at the expense of the corner.

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A - Influence and sente  

The hanging connection of B1 aims for influence and sente. It leaves the corner for White to take sente once more:

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A - Influence follow-up  

White gets a nice corner but Black got 2 moves elsewhere.

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B - stressing the corner  

When Black holds back to this solid connection, he can revert to the previous variation, but also decide to take the corner with B3. Next White usually continues at W4 and Black can exploit the aji at a, which leads to a longer fighting variation.

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C - developing on both sides  

Black can push through at B1 if there's support on the upper side for the fighting that will occur due to White's cutting stones.

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C - White sente  

White can also choose to capture the corner directly at W2. This gives Black a thicker influence but after W4-B5, White can take sente.

Other variations

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Bulge play for ko  

Playing the bulge for ko is locally bad for White. Black will take and it will require a good ko threat to get advantage out of it. As this is an early corner pattern, such big ko threats are rather rare.

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Contact  

Hoping someone can say why white playing W1 is a bad move please.

My immediate thought is B2, or tenuki. Here black has secured a big corner and white is heavy and/or overconcentrated. White played 3 moves to give black a solid corner, but has little aji in exchange and no base or outside thickness. W1 also doesn't have much effect on black. If black has a stone on the top side as well, white is immediately forced to run without getting any benefit in return.

Slarty: even in rare cases where White could gleefully claim to have "tricked" Black into taking B2, because there is an OK? OK+? result after W3, Black could instead safely play B2 connecting at a. White's shape is less productive. W1 is bound to be slow. The following is reasonable...

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