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BQM111
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Difficulty: Intermediate
Keywords: Opening, Question
Hikaru79: Evidently, White has gotten the short end of the stick in the beginning of this four-stone handicap game.
It's so early in the game. I suspect this was the order of moves in the lower left.
unkx80: To improve moves like
Although the top center left stones are begging for attention too, I'd say they have a and b to get out, so I'd go for cutting at c.
Joonas Tyystjärvi: since it's a four-stone handicap game, I'd say White's position is not that bad.
Alex Weldon: c in Zook's (not Joonas') diagram certainly blights the black stone that gets cut off, but even if Black goes there, you can still cut, and the stones on the left are pretty safe anyway, so I wouldn't call it urgent. I like a in Joonas' diagram, but while b is tesuji, it might be just as good to play the plain move one to the left of that (a in Zook's diagram). What I would probably play, though, would be a move a few lines to the left of d, because the black stones in the lower left can be attacked because of their bad shape (right now, they're kind of heavy, whereas if Black gets an extension from them on the bottom, they're kind of thick, instead), and you have the cut (marked point) to aim at, as long as you don't play c first (for this reason, I would call c aji keshi). Bill: I agree that it is too early to be pessimistic about White's position. :-) There is a general principle (small gap) that if you push in between two positions, pushing through the smaller space is stronger.
That applies here. If White pushes through at
Hikaru79: Thanks for the help, everyone. However, just for the sake of correctness, this was the actual sequence of moves in the bottom-left. unkx80: Move sequence does matter. You can't just arbitrarily change it. ;)
Hikaru79: I know it matters, that's why I posted it. :) Especially in this case, where I missed
Klaus: Even in this sequence,
Then White should divide and conquer. :-) --Bill
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