Answer the capping play with a knight's move/Exception

An exception to the proverb "Answer The Capping Play with a Knights Move" can be found in the Chinese Fuseki, where ...

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Low Chinese Fuseki

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Low Chinese Fuseki

tderz: B3 enlarges the potential moyo and W4 defends the corner,
while keeping cutting aji around b and invasion aji in the c-area.
Here it can be noted, that the common proverb "Answer the capping play with a keima" (which would be the play a) is not followed.
The reasons are that


... to protect this cutting point, Black often plays the following sequence:

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Low Chinese Fuseki

tderz: an invasion at c can now not directly link up with d.


Bill: I do not think that this is a case intended by the proverb, because B3 is itself a keima with B1, which takes away one of the possible keimas for White in response to B3. I think that keima is the preferred term for B3, as it captures more of the quality of B3 than capping play.


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