Five And Four Stone Fuseki

   
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Imagist: In four stone games, I like to play the high wedge because it allows me to play the same joseki twice in sente, taking up a strong position on the right.

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Imagist: If black plays this way, I usually play like this.

Bill: As Alex indicates below, White needs to be more assertive in a handicap game. Not that the wedges in this diagram are objectively bad play, but they are too, as it is said, honest.

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Bill: Besides, Black has better play.


Alex: Going by the philosophy that White's goal in handicap games is to seek complications, I aim for the same position, but in a way that leads to a a more complicated fight if White resists:

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Black will usually answer W1 with B2, at which point I make a second approach. If White answers submissvely with a, I can take b, while if she pincers, I will make a double kakari at a, which tends to muddy (or bloody!) the waters very early on.

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W3 seems to be pretty common

tapir: When I have to take four stones something like this unvariably happens


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