Consolidating frameworks
This is from a game between kyu players (game 83 from the Go Teaching Ladder).
When Black played
, White invaded deeply with
. This threatens to use
, for example by White a, Black b, White c.
According to Kim Seong-june 6d,
to consolidate and control the aji of
is better. If
, Black is content to build up with
.
The preceding plays were
to
shown here. Kim feels that these kikashi should not have been played: Black a immediately is better. This is an example for use of kikashi to build up frameworks.
Another example, this time from pro-level opening theory.
is an idea for building a mini-chinese formation later, at a, with an order of play that doesn't allow White to pincer.
is a typical wedge, and by the time of
she has a strong group usefully placed between two black frameworks.
In most cases Black now plays at
here, rather than at a (the latter has been tried by Mok Chin-seok, though). There is plenty of corner aji at b; considering the effect of that combined with White's strength above, Black prefers to secure the existing framework, rather than expand it.
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