Pushing battles in joseki 7
Difficulty: Expert Keywords: MiddleGame, Joseki
This is a variation played once by Go Seigen in a 1965 game against Miyashita Shuyo.
In a 1996 Fujitsu Cup game Rob van Zeijst-Catalin Taranu there continued a large-scale pushing battle:
Seong-june Kim 6d comments that here is conservative (up to that point this has gone 'by the book').
There seems to be the immediate tactical justification of here, that the ladder is good for White to cut at
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