cross-cut, diagonal away
Difficulty: Advanced
Keywords: Shape
![[Diagram]](../../diagrams/51/8a762bdaa0c20acc5ecea6ed51e10932.png) | Not 'correct' shape |
After a cross-cut in the centre of the board, isn't a recognised good shape. One can give some reasons.
Supposing Black simply answers with . Then this is similar to the position in diagonal play reference positions?: White is at some disadvantage for influence. You could also say that threatens a good play at a.
![[Diagram]](../../diagrams/31/a8dc948b17104a4abee5b0674381f7d3.png) | Different order |
With this order of moves may also appear a little unreasonable.
![[Diagram]](../../diagrams/22/a8ef9332ac6b501d5d8802565d1a7a91.png) | 'Wrong' way to cut |
The same position arises here, though with Black to play. The 'correct' way to cut here is with at (strike at the waist of the knight's move).
For all these reasons this is a relatively rare shape.
An example can be see at Attach-crosscut corner patterns, in the 4-4 point case.
Another is in this difficult joseki:
![[Diagram]](../../diagrams/50/8d85b5c4b59a34d0d84db08abcac2e77.png) | Joseki |
This was played by Shinohara Masami against Go Seigen in 1935; it is hard to know how current is.
Charles Matthews
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