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Q: eng60340: Qn. Is W8 a mistake ? can white live in the corner ? Also. if B7 does not exist, is W8 still a mistake?

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corner

PurpleHaze: W8 is not joseki, so it is most likely a mistake, though it may be a very slight one. No, white can not live in the corner, though black may give him the corner to take outside influence. Study the Nadare joseki starting here, 8 occurs in the main line of the Large Nadare.



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corner

Dieter: Black has a big corner and influence to left and centre. White has influence along the top, but loses sente with W6 to patch up the cut in his shape (without which patch the whole exchange would lose meaning).


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corner

If White plays this way, he loses the corner too. He can't afford Black to play at W4. B5 is tesuji preventing Black from having to crawl several times more along the second line.


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Black corner, White sente

Bill: W2 is tesuji, aiming at the two Black stones and taking sente when Black takes the corner.

Usually this is not so good for White.


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Bad for White

White still has a weakness at a, and Wb is not sente.




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