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Catenaccio joseki
Keywords: Joseki
Charles NB this page now unifies contributions from various other pages, and needs an edit. As a first step, I've put all follow-ups at Catenaccio joseki - follow-up plays.
AvatarDJFlux: Wow! I have just discovered this page and I feel flattered to learn that a joseki has been called after the Italian name of an Italian (despicable?) way of playing football, i.e., when losing 0-1, keep all players behind to defend the small disadvantage... (catenaccio, for those of you who do not speak Italian, means lock). Moved from discarded joseki;
This catenaccio joseki used to be considered joseki for Black, but it has now "been deleted from the joseki books". Dinerchtein says that it is too low. Charles Hmm, it seems to have been played in a Korean game in the past 12 months. Not an extinct joseki; and not a superseded joseki for which a clearly better line has been found; but a joseki that is being differently judged by some experts. Sometimes these lines survive as niche joseki, for some special contexts.
Last bit: Kitani Minoru invented a nifty little joseki that removes the possibility of the Black play above. He played
After
Charles Had some popularity in the 1970s; much less fashionable now.
By the way,
Indeed, Yang Yilun teaches that either
Maybe up to
Fhayashi: Is redundant the right word here? Redundant to me sounds like overconcentrated, while Charles Not doing enough serious work?
adamzero one might prefer blighted? (see blighting).
[1] Charles Not my name - introduced to SL by Stefan? This is a copy of the living page "Catenaccio joseki" at Sensei's Library. ![]() |