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Opening in New Year's Rengo
Keywords: Opening
The New Year's rengo reached this position early on, with Black to play.
I entered a move at a as Black 9, which was criticised for various reasons, most of which I agreed with (had to, really, they were made by much better players...). It seemed to be suggested that Black should play in the top left, probably at b or c.
My question is: doesn't this (Black playing in the upper left) lose the initiative for Black? Say Black 9 was played at d, to attack the white stone more strongly, and White then played b to make a second shimari. I think Black can then play at either e or f and rely on the weakness of the bottom left white stone to take control of the game. This seems fine for Black to me. What do people think?
BillSpight: (For some reason Dave's text does not wrap around the diagram on my Netscape browser. {see if we solve that with one of our new 'super' line breaks - Dave} {Very nice! Thanks, Dave. :-))
Black 1 puts pressure on White's marked stone. White 2 - Black 3 is sente. White now regards her lower right stones lightly and plays in the top left corner. Moi, I like White 4. ;-) DaveSigaty: I think that White would be better off playing elsewhere directly, instead of adding 2 first. The exchange of 2 for 3 eliminates the aji of White a, amongst other possibilities. If White ignores 1, it is not clear how Black can enclose the white stone in a way that justifies having played three more times in the lower right. Black 2, for example, may look severe but at some point Black will have to demonstrate a refutation of White a or add still another stone. This is a copy of the living page "Opening in New Year's Rengo" at Sensei's Library. (C) the Authors, published under the OpenContent License V1.0. |