BQM 407
Tapir: This happened recently... as a somehow orthodox player i played white, natürlich. If at
then
at a looks natural to me. After
my thought was I shouldn't strengthen the lower right but it is too early to invade or do something about it. So i approached the upper right corner at b. In comparison to the orthodox fuseki black has a much weaker enclosure here, but white should be careful not to give black a huge corner by a careless approach.
How would you play against this?
[Dave}: Here is the only game I could find where White played the marked approach. Takagawa responded with the marked pincer and play developed as shown.
Herman Hiddema: The wedge at c (or maybe d) looks natural to me.
Mafutrct: I'd play . If Black plays a, you extend to b or c (not sure which is better). Now Black has more aji in the lower right corner than with the 'normal' shimari.
Mafutrct: If , white can just extend to
and Black has to deal with the aji around a and b. So after all, the game looks very even and playable for both sides.
Tapir: In my eyes Black has more bad aji + more potential in the corner + the two stones put more pressure on white than with the orthodox shimari. Does White have enough time to take care for the black weaknesses now? Starting with c i feel black can defend at least one weakness in sente or make it less interesting at least.